the intro ion of repeating rifles asim guns, "ni and othe: deadly instruments. agen bred the experts that a snee body of infantry armest annlicher, Lev-Metford, the day, backed up by a firing field guns, is almost ud that a good old-time bayonet charge would never be resorted to any sine commander, for the supposed sasan that the men charging would be, mowed down long before they could grat ey striking distance of the more the toa lay is improved the ctive to human life ath mes.
distance of a mile and a half, or a mile Tos opposing, aris separated: by." and firing at each other, the mutual loss that hand-to-hand str vsle would be eectain to Tu former times before the advent of when armies eloseil and fought with batt xe, halberd, or sword, the loss of life wi tremendous that the vans quished were usually almost annihilated.
at this. one 40,000 Romans $0,009 were killed. At the momorable battle of Hastings the Normans lost: 12,000 out of 60,000. At Creey there were 40,000 French nobles, generals, and tighting nen shin outright, while there were thousands of sorely wounded as well-to adil to this score, At Bannockburn, where cots throw thomsvlves her, over 33,000 brave hearts:
c up their lives. The field after the lit wasa perfect Aceldama. Thank God, there will be no more Bannockburns or Cullodens. "Sandy" has shaken hands with *John" long ago, and they have often since fought shoulder to shoulder in many a tussle in many lands from Greenland's icy mountains, 10 India's coral strand," and acquitted themselves like the sons of the rare old fighting stock they belong to, In all their fights " Pat was with them; the one helped the other; and between that peerless combination, the Shamrock, the 'Thistle, and the Rose, they "carried the drum," and the day, too, on every occasion.' The characteristics of the English, Scottish, and Irish, man or soldier are very strongly' marked, and nowhere more so than on the field' of battle. The English soldier may be more stubborn, but every commander knows of the difficulty of keep-Irishmen and Scotsmen in hand until the psychological moment, At sea the same characteristics have conduced to the nation's benefit. It well-known fact, however, that the English and Scots are better sailors than the Irish. The latter seem to have more of the military bent than the naval, and it has always been so. Let any of you glance back at.d. see how splendidly the Emerald hewn up in the Generals she has supplied to Great Britain. It required an Irishman to beat Napoleon at Waterloo, An Trishman is at present Commander-in-chief of the entire British Army. The famous
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.