Related article: the doyen of war correspondents. To him principally belongs the credit of inaugurating a new call- ing, of introducing a new and powerful element into the conduct of war. Nobody can forget the invaluable service that he did to his country by exposing the short- comings of our military adminis- tration in the Crimea, and stirring up the national feeling to remedy them. Order Finast Online No one has ever more powerfully portrayed the gallant qualities of British officers and rank and file. In the most strik- ing and sonorous language he told the tale of every feat of arms and thrilled the hearts of the army s countrymen by the appreciative way in which he told how oar soldiers, hungry, sick and naked, stemmed every wave of the enemy's attack and g^rasped the laurels of victory even in thdr dying hands. Of all the many records which tell the proud tafes of British warrior's deeds, none have e\-er exceeded in brilliant and sympa- thetic description, in spirit-stirring vigour and lucidity the Titms cor- respondent's account of the heroic constancy of our infantry in the Crimea, the dash, mettle and self-abnegation of our cavalry- No correspondent has ever more nearly approached the ideal which Sir W. H. Russell set before himself: " My sincere desire is to tell the truth, as far as I know it, respecting all I have witnessed. I had no alternative but to write fully, freely, fearlessly, for that was my duty^ and, to the best of my knowledge and ability, it was fulfilled." It cannot be said that the un- sparing Buy Cheap Finast critic of maladministration and official blunders was a penoma grata to the authorities, and many bitter things were thought and said of him, but his unswer\"ing rectitude of Finast Tablets purpose was e\4dent and it was soon recognised that, so much did the British people hang upon his words, his influence was to be courted and his power was to be acknowledged in right- ing what was wrong and extolling what was well done. He nobly vindicated his position and struck a note of warning that soldiers must in the future be prepared to meet other than mere official criticism. We have said that soldiers on the active list of the army have sometimes taken service for a time 1897.] WAR CORRESPONDENTS. 293 as war correspondents and none have ever been more valuable in such employment than Captain Hozier and Captain Brackenbury, who were attached, the first to the Prussians, the second to the Austrians in the war of 1866. Both were men of the highest military attainments, both had seen service in the English army, both had studied closely the sys- tems of war and sources of strength of continental nations and both were familiar with liter- ature. As might have been ex- pected therefore, their descriptive letters had as much value for military students of all ranks as for the reading public at large. Even now the reproduction of Captain Hozier's letters Purchase Finast Online in one volume "The Seven Weeks' War" remains the fullest and most trust- worthy account in English of Austria's military collapse, and Prussia's first step towards the Empire of Germany. Hozier and Brackenbury, with soldierly pride, rode everywhere, accompanying the staffs of the armies, to which they were at- tached, wherever fighting was thickest and they were, we be- lieve, the first correspondents who deliberately took their notes under fire and accepted all the risks of battle. Known as English officers and really received by the combatants as such rather than as journalists, they could not show backwardness in facing danger and it may be that their example, correct certainly in itself con- sidering their peculiar position, has been in some quarters unduly received as one that must be fol- lowed by all who aspire to be typical war correspondents. Sir W. H. Russell never hesi- tated to accept grave danger, if it was necessary to encounter it in the performance of his duty, but we believe he did not unne- cessarily thrust himself into it ; but Hozier and Brackenbury never remained in the back- ground, though if they had done so, their immediate duty would not have been less completely carried out. So far did Bracken- bury carry Buy Finast his carelessness of exposing himself that, even Buy Finast Online among Austrians, the bravest and most chivalrous of men, his conduct and his coolness in taking notes under a heavy fire were remarked and, after the terrible day of Sadowa, aroused the deep anxiety of General von Benedek, who called out in the midst of all his own troubles and mortifications ** Where is then my Englishman, where is my brave English- man ? " Mr. Archibald Forbes may be said to have been the first to combine the civil and military types of correspondents and to have laid it down as a rule of conduct that exposure to danger is the normal condition of him who would chronicle accurately the deeds Order Finast of soldiers and he in- vented new risks for his chosen profession in undertaking the most fatiguing and hazardous journeys, generally on horseback and with- out companion or escort, in order to supply intelligence with the greatest rapidity to the great organ that he represented. But Mr. Forbes had been a soldier himself for some years. He had all the hardy coolheaded daring and spirit of adventure which is claimed by Scotsmen as part of the national character, but what he did, he did Purchase Finast without bravado, as a necessity in order to secure for his letters that perfection of military thought and feeling, that accuracy and that rapidity of despatch at which he aimed. 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