CHAPTER I HIS EARLY LIFE IN IRELAXD A~D ON THE MOHA ,YK 1715-1748 THE year 1715 was epochal. It witnessed the end of one great Ghapter in the history of civilization and the beginning of a new one yet greater. The chapter that ended then was the one which embraced the stubborn and bloody dynastic wars that since 1672 had resulted from the collision between the stern, sullen genius of vVillialll of Orange and the reckless, unscrupulous alnbition of Louis XIV. For forty-two years war had raged everywhere, broken only in its devastation by such brief and hollow truces as Ninlwegen and Ryswick. True, vVilliam died in 1702, killed by the stulnbling of his clumsy charger just at the threshold of a new campaign. But during the thirteen years of his reign as King of England he had built up a party of aggressive patriotism, which has since proved the 1Table of Contents CEIAPTER; I-EARLY LIFE IN IRELAND AXD O~ THE MOHAWK,; 1715-1748; II-DmIEsTIC LIFE AND THE ALBANY CONGRESS, 1745-; 1754;...

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