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of the most widely renowned of all the soldiers of Gustavus ? He 

 never mentioned Sir Dugald Dalgetty. 



Col. C. E. Yate, C.S.I., C.M.G., M.P., said : I should like to support' 

 the hope just expressed by our Chairman, that Sir George Scott- 

 Moncrieff may go on and give us more of his historical essays. We 

 have listened to a most interesting account on the influence of those 

 two great commanders, Alexander and Gustavus Adolphus, and we 

 must all hope that we may have the benefit of more. 



I would also like to say how much I was struck by the pertinence 

 of the Chairman's remark about the manner in which Gustavus 

 Adolphus was served by his officers, and especially his foreign officers. 

 I remember being particularly struck at Stockholm by the number 

 of coats of arms of Scottish families in the halls of nobility there, 

 who had served and gained notoriety under Gustavus Adolphus 

 and who apparently were most devoted to him. 



As to what the Lecturer has said about the after effects of the 

 influence of these two great captains," I cannot say that I can 

 accept without further consideration the contention that the after 

 efiects of Alexander's influence was less than that of Gustavus 

 Adolphus. 



The Lecturer himself has described how Alexander left behind 

 him " a region permeated with Greek Settlements, imbued with 

 Greek civilization, freedom, love of learning and philosophy," and, 

 though I cannot recall at the moment the exact dates that those 

 settlements lasted to, we know from coins and other sources that 

 the Greek Kingdom founded by him in Bactria lasted for a very 

 long time, and the after effects of Alexander's influence I cannot help 

 thinking may have lasted longer than those of Gustavus Adolphus. 



The latter, as the Lecturer has said, " raised the standard of 

 discipline to the higher ideal of the fear of God," and the influence 

 of his own noble example passed on from generation to generation," 

 but still I am doubtful if the effects of that influence were greater 

 in the world than that of Alexander's. 



There is one thing on which I am entirely in accord with Sir 

 George Scott-Moncrieff. and that is his remark that where the 

 poKtical as well as the mxilitary leadership rests in the same man, 

 it is obvious that his influence for good or evil, must exercise a 



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