When success did come, it came too late, and could not be utilised without a great British Army capable of carrying the war into the enemy's country, and thus compelling a satisfactory peace.

THE END.

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Transcriber's Note:

A table of contents with links has been added at the beginning of the book.

Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.

High-resolution images can be accessed by clicking on the images in the text.

Hyphens removed: "hill[-]side" (page 152), "look[-]out" (page 221), "mid[-]day" (page 149), "night[-]fall" (page 157), "rear[-]guard" (page 142), "sharp[-]shooters" (page 191), "wide[-]spread (page 230).

Hyphen added: "by[-]ways" (page 224).