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MILITARY HISTORY
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MILITARY HISTORY
LECTURES DELIVERED AT
TRINITY COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE
BY
The Hon. J. W. FORTESCUE
Cambridge:
at the University Press
1914
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PREFACE
There is little in these lectures, or at any rate inthree out of four of them, which I have notwritten at greater length in other volumes. I thereforepublish them unwillingly, and in deference onlyto the wishes of some of my audience, whose goodopinion I greatly value, and whose kindly sympathyI shall never forget. If this little volume should setbut one student thinking seriously as to the meaningof military history, its object will be fully accomplished.
The spelling of Indian names has been, as usual,a stumbling-block. No doubt I shall be asked whyI have used the form Narbada for the more familiarNerbuddha, and yet written Hyder Ali instead ofHaidar Ali. I can only say that when the formKalkáta (or whatever may be the Hunterian spelling)is substituted for Calcutta, I shall be prepared toplead guilty to inconsistency.
J. W. F.
March 1914.