ISBN: 1154370607

[EAN: 9781154370607], Neubuch, BARON HENRY BROUGHAM VAUX,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can d… Meer...

[EAN: 9781154370607], Neubuch, BARON HENRY BROUGHAM VAUX,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: . . . CHAPTER XX. THE MILITARY SYSTEM. The public defence in rude nations is easily provided for. The whole community are warriors, whether they live in the earliest stage of society, the hunting and fishing state, or in that which is but little removed above it, as regards civilization--the pastoral. The chiefs are the rulers in peace, and the leaders in war; the whole tribe takes a part in all operations. But though these two states of society may not be far removed one from the other in date and in refinement, they stand at a mighty distance asunder in their military resources. The huntsmen can never bring any force into the field; they are necessarily few in numbers, and scattered over a large territory; they cannot support themselves in a campaign of any duration; they must quit the war for the chase in order to subsist; hence with them a war consists of a single inroad, and a fight or two; and they never can be formidable to any neighbours more civilized than themselves. It is far otherwise with a nation of shepherds. They may have as many numbers as their herds and the plains they feed on will support; their life is necessarily not fixed like the huntsmen, but wandering; and when they have eaten up one district by depasturing it, they move onward to another. When they take the field, which they are prone to do in quest of other pastures, they bring their subsistence with them, being accompanied by their flocks as well as their families. Hence the prodigious bodies which have at different times ravaged the countries both of Europe and Asia, near the Tartar and Scythian tribes, both in ancient and in more remote times. They have warlike habits, too, as well as large numbers and amplo resources; for their lives are spent in the open air, they are inured, to e. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., [PU: General Books, LLC]<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 260 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=15mm, Gew.=386gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert The book has no illustrati… Meer...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 260 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=15mm, Gew.=386gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 11; Original Publisher: R. Griffin and company; Publication date: 1861; Subjects: Constitutional history; Constitutional law; Great Britain; History / Europe / Great Britain; Law / General; Law / Constitutional; Political Science / Constitutions;<