Victories And Defeats An Attempt to Explain the Causes Which Have Led to Them
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How was it, we ask, that the presence of the Hodsonhad a noble mind. O 2 196 VICTORIES AND DEFEATS De Brack on courage in battle. Hodson and the rebel. Law of self- preservation. hero Major Hodson at Delhi with his corps of 600 horsemen was considered worth 10, 000 soldiers ? Because the gallant Hodson had a noble mind. No man got before him in the cavalry charge, but he was always steady and to be relied on. He had, as De Brack says, * the courage which carries a man foremost into the fray, wh...ich delivers the coolest and surest cuts, which is the last in covering a retreat/ In the hand-to-hand encounter he was seen to smile, he even joked with his enemy ; ' Do you call yourself a swordsman ? ' said he, as a huge rebel made a furious cut at him, and found a splendid guard offered, Then he added playfully, ' Try again/ Mild and playful indeed at a time when most men are excited. He well knew that the fine cord that suspended his savage enemy's life over the abyss of death could only be severed by an Omnipotent Power, who could also divide his own thread of existence if He so wished.
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