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The Life of General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley, K. C. B., K. C. M. G. (Volume 1)

The Life of General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley, K. C. B., K. C. M. G. (Volume 1)

Shand, Alexander Innes

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ISBN10: 0217090052
ISBN13: 9780217090056
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.14 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... LIFE OF SIR EDWARD B. HAMLEY. CHAPTER I. THE HAMLEY FAMILY. INTRODUCTION THE HAMLETS OF HALWYN THE OGILTYS ADMIRAL HAMLEY HIS SONS EDWARD'S BOYHOOD EARLY TRAITS--ILLUSTRATING A MURDER TRIAL. To write the Life of Sir Edward Hamley might task the powers of any man. Few but himself could have done satisfactory justice to his versatile genius and to the various sides of his character. We should have been glad, indeed, had he left an autobiography; yet in any autobiography he would have done himself but imperfect justice. We should have heard but little of the delightful personal traits which give life and colour to an autobiography; and we should have learned still less of the adventures and hair-breadth escapes VOL. I. A which came often enough to him in the course of his campaigning. It was only incidentally, and in the familiarity of unreserved conversation, that he would recall the thrilling experiences he seemed to have wellnigh forgotten. To do him the justice he would have denied himself, his biographer ought to have many qualifications to which I make no manner of pretension. I can only plead--if I may be forgiven the indispensable personal allusion--that although in later years I was privileged to enjoy his intimate friendship, I shall nevertheless do my best to be impartial. No one could have had less patience than himself with a chronicler who should ignore his failings or his foibles. As a staff officer of artillery in the Crimea, and as the commander of a division in the Egyptian campaign of 1882, his services were of a very distinguished character. But it is as scientific master of the art of war that his claims to professional distinction are most conspicuous and exceptional. As Professor of Military History, and subsequently Commandant of the ...

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