“To be defeated is pardonable; to be surprised – never!” Napoleon Bonaparte (Maxims of War, 1831)
“To be defeated is pardonable; to be surprised – never!” Napoleon Bonaparte (Maxims of War, 1831)
“Time spent on reconnaissance is seldom wasted.” British Army Field Service Regulations, 1912
“The Boers ‘will not play the game fairly’, said one of the soldiers. Ralph drew a different lesson. Those gleaming insignia, the stars and buttons and buckles of the professional soldier, were all very well in the drawing-room. In the sunshine of the veld they blazed like a heliograph. Against an invisible enemy, the British… Read More
