Scribbler Tales Presents: Escape From Berlin Mary Ann Bernal
Takeshi Krueger
The first of these volumes contains all the papers and private andpublic letters of General Washington, which could illustrate eitherhis character, or the history of the country, up to the commencementof the revolution. It is a portion of history highly interesting,especially to Virginians, and on which none but a doubtful light isshed from any other source. Here we have an authentic account ofBraddock's war; a sort of war of which the readers of history have, ingeneral, no idea but that which is drawn from romances and tales. Itis a warfare which does not recommend itself to the imagination, bythe "pride, pomp and circumstance" so interesting to those who "kissmy Lady Peace at home." But since the invention of gun-powder, thereis no fighting which gives so much room for the display of prowess,courage, coolness and address, and in which victory is so sure to bethe prize of these qualities. "Many a brave man," says Don Quixotte,"has lost his life by the hand of a wretch who was frightened at theflash of his own gun." Not so in Indian warfare. The man who is scarednever escapes but by flight. How should he? There he stands behind histree, while at the distance of a few yards stands his enemy, watchingwith the eye of a lynx, with his rifle to his cheek, and ready to puta ball through any part that is exposed for a moment. To anticipatehim; to get a shot at him; to draw his fire, and then drive him fromhis shelter, is a business in which success depends on steadiness,self-possession, and presence of mind, as well as dexterity and skill.He who thus kills his man, is a brave man; and hence, among theIndians, a display of scalps is a proof of courage never questioned.It was in this sort of warfare that Washington served hisapprenticeship. It was there he learned to look danger steadily in theface, and to possess his soul in calmness amid the fiercest storm ofbattle. There is no such school. The art of war is what a Martinetmay learn. But the faculty of carrying that art into practice, ofapplying its rules in the crisis which shakes the nerves, andunsettles the mind, is only acquired by the "taste of danger." To himwho possesses that, the rest is a school-boy's task.
Scribbler Tales Presents: Escape from Berlin Mary Ann Bernal
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