Excerpt from A Selection From the Despatches, Memoranda, and Other Papers Relating to India I do not think that till his own Despatches were published, for which the world is under large obligation to their editor, Colonel Gurwood, his qualities and talents were duly appreciated, by those, at least, who had not been his followers in war, or to whom his politics were not congenial. Politics ran high in those days. For years after he had returned to civil life, I am convinced that he was considered a very ordinary man by ...
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Excerpt from A Selection From the Despatches, Memoranda, and Other Papers Relating to India I do not think that till his own Despatches were published, for which the world is under large obligation to their editor, Colonel Gurwood, his qualities and talents were duly appreciated, by those, at least, who had not been his followers in war, or to whom his politics were not congenial. Politics ran high in those days. For years after he had returned to civil life, I am convinced that he was considered a very ordinary man by many, themselves of no ordinary capacity. There was a prevalent notion that even in war his successes had been due to the advice of subordinates, and men were cited as his advisers who would have been the first to ridicule the supposition, had they heard of it for they knew better than any that no commander ever trusted more exclusively to his own resources. These hallucinations disappeared at once on the publication of these Despatches, which illustrate so unostentatiously and so clearly, so much better than any history, the wonderful qualities of the writer. The simplicity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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