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A Lecture delivered to the Officers of the Royal Artillery, Woolwich, 1872.
Gentlemen: When I accepted the honour of lecturing here, I took for granted that so select an audience would expect from me not mere amusement, but somewhat of instruction; or, if that be too ambitious a word for me to use, at least some fresh hint -- if I were able to give one -- as to how they should fulfil the ideal of military men in such an age as this.