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As head of the War Department, two years ago, he did more than any living Frenchman towards the reconstitution of true esprit militaire in the French army. He prepared the way for the three years' service, and reorganized the forces of the nation that had grown rusty during the decade that preceded the alarm caused by the German Emperor at Agadir.
"Quiet, Francois! quiet!" said his father, reprovingly; at the same time hobbling into the verandah, and calling for his spectacles. The letter was soon opened, and perused. "Hugot!" cried the Colonel, after he had finished reading it. Hugot made no reply, but threw himself in front of his master, with his hand raised to his eyebrows a la militaire. "Hugot, you must go to Saint Louis."
III , ch. vi- viii, valuable for diplomatic relations; Richard Waddington, La guerre de sept ans: histoire diplomatique et militaire, 5 vols. See also A. W. Ward, Great Britain and Hanover, Some Aspects of their Personal Union .
This new Military School must not be confounded with the old ecole militaire. Independently of its not being destined for a particular class, which no longer exists in this country, the mode of instruction to be introduced there will render it totally different from the establishment which bore the same name.
"And that plain little black one, with the stiff crop of scarlet feathers sticking straight up?" "That's my jockey, papa, with a plume en militaire." "And did the waterfall and the jockey cost anything?" "They were very, very cheap, papa, all things considered.
The American Ambulance Field Service with the Armies of France has carried over seven hundred thousand wounded since the beginning of the war; their sections and section leaders have been sixteen times cited for valuable and efficient work; fifty-four of their men have been given the Croix de Guerre for bravery, and two the Médaille Militaire. Three have been killed.
The Spectateur Militaire, in the review of the "Manual of Artillery," by Prince Louis Napoleon, says: "In looking over this book, it is impossible not to be struck with the laborious industry of which it is the fruit. Of this we can get an idea by the list of authors, French, German, and English, which he has consulted. And this list is no vain catalogue.
He also reproached him for not having visited the Hotel des Invalides nor the Ecole Militaire; and even went so far as to tell him before us that he ought not only to know what Paris contained, but to travel in France, and reside a few days in each of his large towns.
Jinks was clad in his habitual costume: half dandy, half militaire; and when he moved, his great sword rattled against his grasshopper legs in a way terrifying to hear. Ralph, richly dressed as usual, and reclining in his chair, smiled lazily, and looked at the scowling Mr. Jinks.
In one of the bare rooms of that Ecole Militaire, at Montreuil, where the British General Staff has worked since 1916, I saw on a snowy day at the end of January a chart covering an entire wall, which held me riveted. It was the war at a glance so far as the British Army is concerned from January, 1916, to the end.
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