Excerpt from Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine: September, 1910 After centuries of ceaseless struggle in which she has often been chained to the ground and pinned there by the bayonet, her voice of protest choked by her own blood, Ireland is at length win ning back her soil by the sword wrested from her: and the time may yet come when this green isle may have the de scription, first flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. It is related that when that effeminate but intelligent king, Louis XV of France, visited Brussels he was shown the tombs of the Dukes of Burgundy. Among others there was the sepulchre of Mary, the daughter of the last of that great house. Pointing to it the French King remarked to his courtiers, there lies the cause of our wars. The great: but unscrupulous King Louis the 11th had seized upon the inheritance of that orphan girl. She married the Emperor of Germany, and her cause was espoused along the Rhine. Many a long devour ing struggle followed, as ages dragged along, and the remark of the French monarch was well made. 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.