Excerpt from Personal Records of the Kandahar Campaign
From the days of Alexander to those of Napoleon Military Fame has been one of the sweetest, if not the most coveted, of human distinctions; and although we read of
"The shepherd kings of patriarchal times,
Who knew no brighter gems than summer wreaths,
And none but tearless triumphs,"
such potentates belong, I fear, but to a fabled age - that Arcadia which is born only of the poet"s inspiration. From the commencement of authentic or reliable history, battle and conquest have ploughed the soil where civilisation and progress have subsequently reaped a fair and goodly harvest.
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