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Title: America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
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) What Makes Soldiers Brave in Battle. The natural animal instinct of self-preservation will of course influenceall soldiers in battle; but the history of nations and their struggles forsupremacy prove beyond question that freemen fighting for liberty willalways make better and braver soldiers than the best drilled armies fightingfor a cause that does not appeal to the hearts and patriotism of the individ-uals composing such armies. FIRST AMERICAN INVASION OF CUBA. 433 The question of the comparative proportion of really brave men in anyarmy will probably never be determined. Great officers on the continentkeep their knowledge on that subject rigorously as a professional secret, andassume as a certainty that all well-drilled soldiers are brave. They know verywell, however, that they are not, and when confidential will admit, as Mar-shal von Moltke once did in public, that with a great number it takes discip-line, and severe discipline, too, to induce them to face shells unshrinkingly.
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A SQUAD OF OUR BLACK GIANTS. American officers have been known to acknowledge that of their men, whoare as brave as any in the world, twenty per cent, would run away if theycould; and in every army, even ours, which a man enters only of free will,there is a certain proportion who literally cannot overcome their fears. Theyare stricken with a sort of paralysis. The proportion is probably not high inany army, the majority, if in health, being able to do their duty, and havingintense motives to do it; but neither is the proportion high of those who lit-erally feel no fear. 434 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. There are such men, who do not quite understand what the emotion is,as there are also some who have in extreme danger a sense of pleasure, whichsometimes not only quickens their blood, but distinctly increases their intel-lectual force. This is said to have been true of General Picton, who, thougha hard, rough man, was an angel when the bullets were about; and it wasundoubtedly true of th

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