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MARLBOROUGH AND HIS METHODS 
OF WARFARE. 
BY 
AY, NES NORE MO IORI 1S a5” Wb. 1D) 
(A Lecture delivered at the Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, 80th November, 1895). 
Fretp-MArsHAL THE Rigut Hon. Viscouxt Wousk.ky, K.P., prc., COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, 
IN THE CHAIR. 
Generat Suarr—Gentlemen, Lord Wolseley, the Commander-in-Chief, 
has kindly consented to take the chair this evening at our lecture. He 
is an honorary member of the Institution (applause). 
Tuer Cuairman—lIt is the usual custom, gentlemen, I understand, to 
call upon the Lecturer—I do not say to introduce him to you, for, I 
believe, that is almost unnecessary, because I think I may say, at the 
risk of paying him a compliment to his face, that he is about the best 
known Lecturer in England. I have heard him lecture on many 
occasions, and I have always derived a great deal of pleasure and 
profit from what he has told us; and Iam sure that the subject which 
he has taken for this evening is one upon which he will be able to tell 
us a great deal to interest us, and also to give us instruction (applause). 
Dr. Macuire—My Lord, and gentlemen, I must say that I feel no 
small amount of anxious diffidence in rising in the presence of your 
Lordship and before such an exceedingly distinguished gathering of the 
chiefs of a large section of the British army to address you, my Lord, 
and this audience on the splendid operations of a predecessor of your 
Lordship in the command of the illustrious British army. It is the 
fashion of many military critics and also of no small number of 
civilians to disparage the exploits of the British army; but for my 
part, while I am quite willing to pay all honour to the colossal forces 
of the continent—to the massive organisations of France, of Germany 
and of Russia, I think there is very much to be said, not only about 
the fighting qualities of individual Englishmen as individual soldiers, 
but also about the exploits in every land of a race which is perpetually 
fizhting, whereas the enormous hordes of the continent only fight now 
and again. ‘There are officers in this room who since 1870 have 
2 This lecture was quite extempore and illustrated by large wall maps. 
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