most to the Empire were the naval battles of La Hogue in
1692 and Trafalgar in 1805. Since Trafalgar the Empire
has been able to keep what it had won before, and to go
on growing as well, because all its different parts are
joined together by the sea, and because the British Navy
has been, from that day to this, stronger than any other
navy in the world.

How the French and British armies and navies fought on
opposite sides, either alone or with allies, all over
the world, from time to time, for these hundred and
twenty-seven years; how all the eight wars with different
names formed one long Second Hundred Years' War; and how
the British Navy was the principal force that won the
whole of this war, made the Empire, and gave Canada safety
then, as it gives her safety now--all this is much too
long a story to tell here. But the gist of it may be told
in a very few words, at least in so far as it concerns
the winning of Canada and the deeds of Wolfe.

The name 'Greater Britain' is often used to describe all
the parts of the British Empire which lie outside of the
old mother country. This 'Greater Britain' is now so
vast and well established that we are apt to forget those
other empires beyond the seas which, each in its own day,
surpassed the British Empire of the same period. There
was a Greater Portugal, a Greater Spain, a Greater Holland,
and a Greater France. France and Holland still have
large oversea possessions; and a whole new-world continent
still speaks the languages of Spain and Portugal. But