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ung. He is eight years older than Clive was when he commenced his career in India; seven years older than Bonaparte was when he took command of the Army of Italy; and of the same age with Wolfe when he fell on the plains of Abraham. It is not age, but military experience, that is needful in a general. This possessed, the younger the man is, the better. Nearly all the greatest generals of the world have been young men when they made their first campaigns. Alexander the Great was twenty; Hannibal, twenty-seven; the Great Conde, twenty-two; Charles XII, eighteen, at the opening of their several careers. There have been others, however, equally distinguished, who commenced later. Julius Cæsar was forty-two when he began to command in Gaul; Wellington was thirty-nine when he took command in Spain; Washington was forty-three when he took the American army in hand; Marlborough was fifty-three when he took command in Flanders; and General Lee was somewhere near the same age when he took