How history is made :-
" Bottle has been more admired as a soldier than as a states. man : in his youth, as it is interesting to know, he studied with zeal the campaigns of Napoleon, and if he had been allowed he would have put in practice a higher military wisdom than the mere veld craft and defensive ambush-warfare of the average Boer."—From a leading article on General Botha in the Morning Post of Friday, August 29th.
" At any rate, he had the open mind and the clear eye which makes the resourceful and inventive commander. I wish they would bring Botha to Flanders,' said an eminent soldier in the War Office (of all places) once to me. And when I ex- pressed some surprise at such a proposal from such a quarter I was told : ' He hasn't read the — maxims of Napoleon.' He hadn't,. but I honestly believe," &c.—From an article on General Botha in the Deily News of Friday, August 29th.
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