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Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 11, 4 July 1848, Page 4

England v. France.—English armies, for a hundred and twenty years, ravaged France; but England has not seen the fires of a French camp since the battle of Hastings. English troops have twice taken the French capital; an English King was crowned at Paris; a French king rode captive through London; a French Emperor died in English captivity, and his remains were surrendered by English generosity. Twice the English horse marched from Calais to the Pyrenees, once from the Pyrenees to Calais ; the monuments of Napoleon, in the French capital, at this moment owe their preservation from German revenge, to an Euglish general. AU the great disasters and days of mourning for France since the battle of Hastings Tench?bray, Cressy, Poictiers, Agincourt, Verneuil, Cervont, Blenheim, Oudeuard, Ramilies, Malphquet, Alinden, Dettingen, Quebec, Egypt, Talavcra, Salamanca, Vittoria, Oithcs, the Pyrenees, Wuterloo—were gained by English generals, and won, for the must part, by English soldiers- Even at Funtenoy, the greatest victory over England of which France can boast since Hastings, every regiment in the French army was, on their own admission, routed by the terrible English column, and victory was snatched from its grasp solely by want of support on the part of the Dutch and Austrians. No coalition against France has ever been successful in which England did not take a prominent part; none, in the end, has failed in gaining its objects in which she stood foremost in the fight. The fact is so apparent on the most superficial survey of history—tlat it is admitted by the ablest French historians, though they protest themselves unable to explain it. — Alison's History of the Duke of Marlborough.