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Excerpt from The Life of Sir John French

Some men are so physically and morally constituted as to see everything through a highly-coloured medium. They raise up a picture in the mind on every slight occasion, and give to every trivial occurrence a dramatic interest. But what ever knowledge, or talent, or courage, or other good 'qualities such men may possess, nature has not formed them for the command of armies, or the direction of great military operations.

Sir John French neither uses rose coloured spectacles nor smoked glasses, and he is invariably level-headed. It was Christian de Wet, himself a military genius of no mean order, who remarked of French that he is the one Boer general in the British Army, thereby paying him the highest compliment he could call to mind.

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Excerpt from The Life of Sir John French

Europe. Many of its towns and villages lie in heaps, and its pleasant fields are seamed with the tracks of artillery wag gons. The pleasant field of Waterloo, where the maize grows thick, has already been overrun by German troops.

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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.