The Fallen Stuarts (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Fallen Stuarts The following Essay obtained the Prince Consort Prize and the Seeley Medal in 1900. Since then by the kindness of the Electors it has been in parts cut down and in some places added to. Its method requires some explanation. With a subject touching upon the intricate threads of European history for roughly three quarters of a century, knowledge throughout at first hand was impossible in so small a compass. The plan adopted was therefore to obtain, so far as may be, first-hand information for the occasions in which the Stuart House came prominently forward in the diplomacy and wars of the time. For the rest, I have tried to show how far the great Courts of Europe were busy in different parts of the Continent, in order to explain why they made use of the fallen dynasty at the particular times that they did. But this has required the use of well-known authorities rather than original work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.