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20 of children and women and defenceless civilians, but as free, clean human creatures, prepared to take arms and slay or be slain, in fair fight with armed men, for a cause they felt to be just, and yet in the hour of triumph

Pass over another two centuries, and the same national ideal of the British soldier survives still inviolate in Tennyson's 'Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington':—

The same ideal of the great soldier recurs again and again to-day in the songs of our soldier poets, for it is the racial tradition in which they and their comrades