Excerpt from The Real America in Romance, Vol. 10: With Reading Courses, Being a Complete and Authentic History II., page he ruled the vast dominions of Spain in America, as well as what is now Spain, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and part of Italy and France. The Spaniards became the most successful soldiers and sailors of that day in con sequence of such victories as those of the famous warrior Consalvo de Cordova, in Italy (about of Charles V. 's forces over Francis 1. Of France, at Pavia and of his son, Don John of Austria, over the Turks, at the great naval battle of Lepanto They also achieved notable intellectual victories, and the names of Cervantes, the author of the immortal Don Quixote, and Valasquez, the incomparable painter, have outlasted Spain's martial glories. The youthful mind is naturally stirred by battle stories, but. War is wanton destruction at best. It is not great generals, but great thinkers, states men, scientists, writers, and painters that make a nation truly great. 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.