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MILITARY HISTORY
LECTURES DELIVERED AT
TRINITY COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE

BY

The Hon. J. W. FORTESCUE

Cambridge:
at the University Press
1914]

Cambridge:
PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

PREFACE

There is little in these lectures, or at any rate in three out of four of them, which I have not written at greater length in other volumes. I therefore publish them unwillingly, and in deference only to the wishes of some of my audience, whose good opinion I greatly value, and whose kindly sympathy I shall never forget. If this little volume should set but one student thinking seriously as to the meaning of 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 why I have used the form _Narbada_ for the more familiar _Nerbuddha_, and yet written _Hyder Ali_ instead of _Haidar Ali_. I can only say that when the form _Kalkáta_ (or whatever may be the Hunterian spelling) is substituted for _Calcutta_, I shall be prepared to plead guilty to inconsistency.

J. W. F.

_March 1914._

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