THE FRENCH SOLDIER.
The French soldier has been well described by a British officer who has studied him long He is more active than the German in mind and body, is intelligent and energetic, sober and abstemious, a splendid marcher and a keen fighter. His feats of marching during the Napoleonic wars are historic, but they have been paralleled in the last few months. French troops have taken it in the day’s work to inarch 30 miles, as they used to under Napoleon, and to spend the night on the road, as they did often then. Nor need anyone think that the French fight well only when successful. In 1870, in spite ot uninterrupted defeats, absence of confidence in tbeir leaders, and want of food, the French soldier never (ailed his fighting. I have been told by a German officer who went through the war on the staff of the Crown Prince that “Th French fought better than the Germans.’ This is certainly the opinion of those who knew both armies.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1343, 5 January 1915, Page 4
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171THE FRENCH SOLDIER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1343, 5 January 1915, Page 4
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