He exemplified in his life the Boy Scout motto,
"Be Prepared."
CONTENTS
WASHINGTON
GRANT
LEE
NAPOLEON
WELLINGTON
GORDON
ROBERTS
KITCHENER
HAIG
JOFFRE
FOCH
PERSHING
BOYS' BOOK OF FAMOUS SOLDIERS
WASHINGTON
THE YOUNG SURVEYOR
"Turn your guns around on them! Stop them!"
The command was given in peremptory tones to a demoralized group of
soldiers. Not waiting for them to carry out his orders, the young
officer who gave them leaped from his horse, and with his own hands
turned one of the guns upon the advancing foe.
Had it been the Argonne Forest, and the year 1918, it would have been a
machine gun that the officer manned. But the time was over a century
and a half earlier than this--and the weapon a light brass field-piece,
which after being fired once, must be painfully reloaded.
Meanwhile, the redskins came on.
The young officer, whose name has come down to history as George
Washington, was trying to stem the tide of defeat. It was the fateful
day when old General Braddock of the British army received his first
and fatal lesson in Indian warfare. Says an old Pennsylvania ranger
who was also in the fray:
"I saw Col. Washington spring from his panting horse, and seize a brass
field-piece as if it had been a stick.
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