The Fortnightly Volume 32; V. 38 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...in France, and also in England, and it would be impertinent for me to speak of it. Apart from his Asian campaigns, of which I know nothing from personal experience, I may only point to his passage of the Balkans at Senova (which for skill and daring and success excelled any feat of arms performed during the RussoTurkish War), to his rapid march on Adrianople, and the later encircling of Constantinople. Like all great commanders, Scobelefi inspired in the oflicers and men under him the warmest attachment and devotion. To use an old phrase, " they would go through fire and water for him." It is difiicult to define exactly to what peculiar attributes in the young general this was due. It was perhaps to a combination of many great and lovable qualities. A general at twenty-eight; a conspicuous figure in every dispatch from Central Asia; at thirty-four the victorious general of the most decisive battle of the great Bulgarian campaign; the leader of the Russian hosts on the historic capital of the traditional enemy of the Empire of the North; at thirty-five the commander of a 001728 d'armee----Scobelefi was naturally the object of much jealous irritation on the part of the older generals in the service of the Czar. I remember him referring to this unpleasant state of matters, and stating that with him honours brought additional labour and greater weight of cares, and enforced the most unwearied vigilance against the slightest mistake. And knowing the enormous amount of work which he undertook and successfully accomplished, it is not a matter of surprise, though of grief, that he should have died of disease of the heart at thirty-nine. With the ofiicers of his own command he was frank and friendly, but he never lost his...