Excerpt from Sir William Johnson
For twelve years after William died, this party under the reign of a really great though rather indolent woman, Queen Anne, carried forward William's projects and executed his policies with no less vigor and, possibly, with even more success, than he himself could have done alive. I have seen the conflicts of Will iam and Louis described in some histories as religious wars. They were anything but that. They were dynastic and political wars. William may be called the inventor of the balance of power. He was the originator of coalitions. The England that he took from the Stuarts in 1689 was an insular province near the coast of Europe The England that he left to Queen Anne and John Churchill in 1702 was the prime factor in Europe, and the last vision that faded before his dying eyes was the dawn of the British Empire.
It is a strange fact that, with all her wealth of literature, England has no thorough history of her greatest modern king! A few great soldiers have been born to the purple since the dark ages - Gustav Adolf, Charles XII, Peter of Russia, and Frederic of Prussia. But no man of royal birth has ever combined the so.
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