An officer and a Dublin man: Frank McNally on ‘perhaps the most brilliant general in British history’
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Frank McNally writes about Garnet Wolseley, describing him as perhaps the most brilliant general in British history. Wolseley operated by a personal rule. He believed a young officer should seek to get himself killed if he wanted to succeed in his career.
Garnet Wolseley ‘followed his own maxim that if a young officer wants to do well he should try to get himself killed’