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PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION
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of greatest darkness; the other an act of unpardonable cowardice, an abandonment of the highest position on the battlefield to a demoralized and disordered enemy at the turning-point of the conflict.

Lucien Sanial.

New York, February, 1902.