foot-horse

Updated: July 22, 2025

And the grave fact to consider is that all the great states of Europe, except for the unification of Italy and Germany, are still much of the size and in much the same boundaries that made them strong and safe in the eighteenth century, that is to say, in the closing years of the foot-horse period.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In the Fourth Year : Anticipations of a World Peace