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| | Generalship: its Diseases and their Cure |
 | | It was so successful, and its success could so clearly be traced to superior organization, superior tactics and superior strategy, that after the war it was overlooked that colonels still led their battalions into action, and that all but the highest grades of generals were on the battlefield and within the bullet zone. |
 | | Some years ago now, I visited the battlefield of Rezonville, and a little west of the village I came across a small bench upon which the King of Prussia was seated on the evening of August 18th, 1870, when he received a message from Moltke announcing the victory of Gravelotte. |
 | | Accepting these ages as the rule, a study of history will at once show us that he was not far wrong; for though there are exceptions to every rule, at least seventy-five per cent of the really great, not merely noted, generals in history, were under forty-five years of age. |
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