The British nation a history / by George MWrong . two Dutch states,afraid of foreign intruders, formed an alliance, armedthemselves, and were well equipped for the war which atlast broke out. But, as in the Crimean AYar, Britain wasunprepared, while the struggle assumed unexpected propor-tions, and because it involvedsending immense armaments bysea, proved the most costly ofany of her wars, except thatwith Xapoleon. She was able,however, slowly to wear downthe opposing forces, and peacewas finally concluded in 1902,on the basis of the annexationof the two former republics tothe British Empire.
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . two Dutch states,afraid of foreign intruders, formed an alliance, armedthemselves, and were well equipped for the war which atlast broke out. But, as in the Crimean AYar, Britain wasunprepared, while the struggle assumed unexpected propor-tions, and because it involvedsending immense armaments bysea, proved the most costly ofany of her wars, except thatwith Xapoleon. She was able,however, slowly to wear downthe opposing forces, and peacewas finally concluded in 1902,on the basis of the annexationof the two former republics tothe British Empire. When the peace was made,Edward VII, Victorias son, wasking. He had already reachedthe mature age of fifty-nine, and his long training inthe difficult position of lieir to the throne endowed himwith special tact and discretion for his highoffice. His personal sympathies are under-stood to be with liberal measures, and the policy of con-ciliation in Ireland is said to owe some of its inspirationto him. It was immediately after Edward VIIs corona-. Edward Vll. THE MODERN ERA 547 tion, in August, 1902, that Lord Salisbury, the last of theten ^ prime ministers who had held office under Victoria,retired, and was succeeded by his nephew, Mr. A. J. Bal-four. With a new sovereign and a new prime minister inpower, the remarkable Victorian era may be said to havecome to an end. Books for Referenxe Walpole, History of England from the Conclusion of the GreatWar (5 vols., 1886); * McCarthy, The Four Georges and William IV(4 vols., 1901); * McCarthy, History of Our Own Times (4 vols., 1886);* Morley, Life of Cobden (1885); Hodder, Life of the Fourth Earlof Shaftesbury (1892); Sanders, Life of Viscount Palmerston (1888);Froude. Earl of Beaconsfield (1890); * Russell, W. E. Gladstone (1896);Traill. Marquis of Salisbury (1892) (the last three in the series, TheQueens Prime Ministers); * Lee, Life of Queen Victoria (1902); Bryce,Studies in Contemporary Biography. »Lord Melbourne, 1835-1841; Si
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