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FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote A: There are three accounts as to the time of the birth of
"St. Arnaud, formerly Leroy." That which makes him oldest represents him
as being fifty-eight at the Battle of the Alma. The second makes him
fifty-six, and the third fifty-three. In either case he was not a young
man; but, though suffering from mortal illness, he showed no want of
vigor on almost every occasion when its display was required.]
[Footnote B: The advocates of youth in generals have never, that we are
aware, claimed Hamilcar Barcas as one of the illustrations of their
argument; yet he must have been a very young man when he began his
extraordinary career, if, as has been stated on good authority, he was
not beyond the middle age when he lost his life in battle. He was a
great man, perhaps even as great a man as his son Hannibal, who did but
carry out his father's designs.]
[Footnote C: At Fontenoy the Duke of Cumberland was but half the age of
the Comte de Saxe. In that battle an English soldier was taken prisoner,
after fighting with heroic bravery. A French officer complimented him,
saying, that, if there had been fifty thousand men like him on the other
side, the victory would have been theirs. "No," said the Englishman, "it
was not the fifty thousand brave men who were wanting, but a Marshal
Saxe." Cumberland was ever unlucky, save at Culloden. Saxe was old
beyond his years, being one of the fastest of the fast men of his time,
as became the son of Augustus the Strong and Aurora von Koenigsmark.]
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