Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1918 — YOUTH AND WAR [ARTICLE]

YOUTH AND WAR

Farragut was an ensign at twelve. Grant was a lieutenant at twentyone. ' *Napoleon was a lieutenant at seventeen. Washington was a major before he was twenty. Alexander the Great was a celebrated soldier at twenty. The duke of Wellington was an ensign at eighteen. Ney—“Bravest of the brave” —was a Hussar at eighteen. Lafayette was a major general In the American army at twenty. II ■■ James Lawrence—" Never give up the ship”—entered service at, sixteen. Kitchener at twenty was fighting for the French in the Franco-Prussian war. Murat, who rose from a stable boy to be king of Naples, was a chasseur at twenty. -r- ~ * Commodore Stephen Decatur —“My country, right or wrong”—entered the navy at nineteen. One of the greatest of Napoleon’s marshals, Berthter, entered military service at thirteen. Massena, the son of a tanner, entered French sendee at seventeen. and Napoleon later considered him as the greatest of all his generals.