Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Our Empire, Past and Present
AS the story of our Empire unfolds, the reader will not fail to grasp the vast Significance of sea power in the evolution of England into a world-wide state; how by maritime skill and daring, first the kingdom, then the Empire, was founded, strength ened, consolidated, and maintained. 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.
