Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

My lord, I have heard that your father was a military man. Was that the case?

They fell upon an ungenial climate, where there were nine months of winter and three months of cold weather, and that called out the best energies of the men, …