marchand's

Updated: January 13, 2026

Later on the civilized nations will know more, and will wonder and laugh together at their old blindness. When Lord Kitchener went down the line, before the march past, they say that he stopped to speak to a General who had been Marchand's Chief of Staff at the time of Fashoda.

Rudyard Kipling - France at War: On the Frontier of Civilization