Addresses During the Final Exercises, June 7-11, 1909 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Addresses During the Final Exercises, June 7-11, 1909What is there, in the annals of mankind, more superb on the one hand, than the Dutch resistance at Harlem, or Leiden or Nieuport in their battle for independence, or on the other than the triumph for English liberties at Runnemede, or Mar ston Moor or Naseby? Coming nearer to our own history, it was to the co-operation of these two peoples - one of which detained the Duke of Parma's army in the Netherlands, while the other sailed forth under command of Howard and Drake and Hawkins, and other famous sea-kings, that Spain's so called Invincible Armada was defeated in I 588, the Spanish sea-power broken, and the way opened for the planting of anglo-saxon civilization at Jamestown in 1607. The people of the Netherlands are more closely allied to the Angles and the Saxons, out of whose stock our race is formed, than any other ethnological stock extant, and to the thinking person, there can, perhaps, be no more suggestive combination of words than William and Mary, as used in the title of this college, unless it be the very words anglo-saxon themselves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.