Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some Lessons From the Boer War, 1899-1902
The teachings of the late war in tactics are so numerous that it is a hard matter to know where to begin in dealing with them.
Most men, however, who have not pre viously seen serious fighting will admit that the most important lesson they have learned is the enormous part played by moral effect; and if I were called upon to give a few words of advice to be followed in action, they would be Always adopt the bolder course; it is usually the safer, besides being the more likely to lead to success.
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