TAILOTRS ADMIBAL AND GENERAL.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 19, 2 August 1901, Page 3

TAILOTRS ADMIBAL AND GENERAL.

The ibrave. S¥r John Havrkwood was apprenticed to a London tailor. ' Ho loft tailoring, however, and entered the English Army, than getting ready to invade Frauco with Edward i 111 find, the IBlack Brinee at its head, and for tm courage and marked military abjlitios was soon routined for the honqur qi knighthood. He was said to Laye been the first distinguished commander who appeared since tho destruction of the Boinaa Empire. A few yoars after the Fep.ce of Bes- i tigny ia 1360, Sir John took ijulitary service under : the Republic of Pisa, under the banner o.f which he carried arms with h.is $ccusjfcoinod v.alour and brarery for 23 years. In 1387 he changed to the Flo> entine service and ho died in Florence $t an advanced age in 1393, anil "was honoured with a public funeraj in Jhft church of San.t-a Raparata.1 Admiral Hobaon 'belonged to, aid and wag associated with the trade. We see young JjobsG^ working away : making hig coats and trouserc., at E,onchuich, in the 1310 qf Wight, when the ne w^» comes flashing' .thrgugh t)*e ] village ihat a squadron qf n>en, s of war \ are sailing oii £h£ island.. ~W& see j young Hobson apring from s^op , board and rushing! wi|h his cojenpan- , iona to the beach, -to look upon the j glorious spectacle,. We Dbaex^r© the ] youth suddenly fiirod wi|h ambition , to Jb.a a (jailor opringing' intq .a boat j rbwrng <jff to the squadron seaphing ] the ; admival J» ship, ibeing accepted as a.,yQlunteer, ¥?e sac hiii^ rising steadily to yipeiAdmira]. and engaged, in the Figo Bay conlju'i earjy in ihe Eighteenth os?^urv, / • I^izare Hoche, the celebrated -Oen-" erai in |he war^ was not altogether disassociated wi|h tailbring, for lie used to embroider waistcoftti, which were fashionable in those days, to enable him toeftrn money for the laudable purpoee of buying books on military science, These he studied with so much success on taking serv- ' i«e in tlia FiN)noh ft Hards, at 16 years of age, that when 25 he received com-' iniand of the army of Moselle, ; His prosperous military career may { 1 have to some extent been influenced ' iby his early use of the neodle whioh enabled him to procure the whevo-j withal to study and pursue his military education, He died suddenly in , 1793, ■■'.-■ • ' John Oiiristiau Thedoo, who rosej to be the chief-surgeou in the Prus-1 eian Army, under Fredrick 11,, liad ; in his youth beon apprenticed to a taiioiy :.' \1 ■ '.; ;, j