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That every man in arms should wish to be."

_Wordsworth._




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INTRODUCTION

BY FIELD-MARSHAL SIR EVELYN WOOD, V.C.


I regard John Denton French as the man who for the last twelve years
has been the driving force of tactical instruction in the British
Army. He made use of all the best ideas of the Generals who preceded
him in the Aldershot Command, and he was, I think, instrumental in
causing the appointment of Horace Smith-Dorrien and Douglas Haig to
succeed in turn to that nursery of soldiers.