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Title: Famous generals of the great war who led the United States and her allies to a glorious victory
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Charles Haven Ladd, 1877- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Generals
Publisher: Boston, The Page company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ltke —was crushing the disorganized French forces led byNapoleon the Third. Educated at Victoria College atStellenbasch in South Africa, and at Christ Church,England, he achieved distinction as a student. After-wards he studied law and applied himself so diligentlyto this branch of learning that shortly after his returnto Cape Town, when only twenty-eight years of age,he was made States Attorney under President Kruger. When war broke out with England, the youthful bar-rister was an aide to his chief, when a meeting washeld with the British Commissioners at Bloemfonteinwhich resulted in war between Boer and Uitlander.During the bad days which succeeded, he served withdistinction as a leader of the former fighters from veldtand mining-town. He learned to know South Africafrom the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic as one learns acountry only under the searching test of war, and as hehimself says of this era: I believe it is generally ad-mitted that I covered more country than any other com-
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JAN SMUTS JAN SMUTS 269 mander in the field, on either side — and my movementswere not always in the direction of the enemy. When Germany attacked France, in the present war,some one in the little village of Johannesburg was heardto sing a ditty which ran: Dye ken Jan Smuts when hes after the Hun,Dye ken Jan Smuts when hes got em on the run,Dye ken Jan Smuts when hes out with his gun,And his horse and his men in the morning ? Yes, I ken Jan Smuts and Jourdain, too,Van der V. and Sportsman Selous,Springbok and Sikh, for theyre all true blue,When theyre straffing the Hun in the morning. Jan Smuts, in fact, now General Smuts, if youplease, was after the South African Boche with as largean army as the British and loyal Boers could muster.The initial events of the anti-German campaign wereto seize the rail-head of the Tanga-Kilimanjaro line,the capture of the town of Moshi, and the threateningof the central German railway from Dar-es-Salam toTanganyika. The British advanced through a den

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