Excerpt from The History of the War Against Russia The systems of the British and French armies act as Oppositely upon the hopes of the junior officers as upon the men. Without fortune and aristocratic influence, a British officer, however well educated and brave, has no hope of rising to eminence. Purchase and seniority rule pro motion. In the French army seniority has its due share of influence, but is never allowed to impede the promotion of merit. In the British army few men reach the higher ranks until too ...
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Excerpt from The History of the War Against Russia The systems of the British and French armies act as Oppositely upon the hopes of the junior officers as upon the men. Without fortune and aristocratic influence, a British officer, however well educated and brave, has no hope of rising to eminence. Purchase and seniority rule pro motion. In the French army seniority has its due share of influence, but is never allowed to impede the promotion of merit. In the British army few men reach the higher ranks until too old to act efficiently, if called on for active ser vice in their grade - unless men of fortune or title, or who have the especial patronage of those so circumstanced. Hence, although Eng land has a long list of general-officers, whose services have been most glorious, they are all too old for the toils of war. Her generals of high rank young enough to be useful are men who have bought their way up, and are unfit for high command. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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