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It was to the lnfantry of the Old Guard that Napoleon turned in his last desperate attempt to save his lfmpire at Xvaterloo and it was the British lnfantry that broke the Qld Guard and W1'OtC linis to Napoleon's story. ln was the lnfantry who faced lnfantry in our Civil VVar and strewed the country from the Mississippi to the sea with their bodies. And it was an lnfantryman whose infantry qualities of dogged perseverence, loyalty to principle and contempt of losses finally preserved these United States as one. In the XVorld 'War though subjected to all that history and modern ingenuity could devise by way of frightfulness and terror the lnfantryman acquitted himself gloriously, though he paid the time-old price with his dead. Neither bomb nor shell nor bullet nor poison gas nor flame could daunt him and he went his way to victory as was his wont. The lnfantryman has never felt the need of surrounding his profession with mystery or strange names. But whether it be the javelin or the spear, the dagger or the sword, the, long bow or the cross bow, the arque- bus, the musket or the rifle, the machine gun, cannon, mortar or the tank, to them the Infantry has been ever ready to turn its hand and make good use of them in battle. The Infantry stands today as it has stood down through the ages- stout-hearted, undaunted, ever ready to take one more step toward the enemy, ever ready to strike him one more blow.
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the Infantry that he feels. Only the rush, continuous, mighty, eternal of the waters over Niagara may' be likened to it. The prowess of the Infantry and its influence on man and his affairs stand out dramatically in the pages of history. It was ten thousand Greek Infantrymen who, faced by ten times their number smashed the Persian hosts at lVIarathon twenty-five hundred years ago and assured tous Greek civilization With its gifts of art and letters. And here was first definitely established the supremacy of the men of the VVest over those of the East-a supremacy maintained even to this day. It was the Infantryman who made good Sparta's boast that men, not walls, were her protection. It was the Infantryman who gave to the world at Thermopylae that unparalleled example of soldierly devotion. It was the Infantryman about whom Alexander builded the army that hewed for him his great empire out of the East and marched with him from the Aegean Sea to the heights of the Himalayas. It was the Infantryman who carried the Roman law and govern- mental system over the world and who held Rome's far-Hung frontiers against every assault so long as Rome herself deserved such devotion. It was the English archer who brought down the knight from his blundering horse and drove in the thin edge of the wedge that finally broke the back of the feudal system with its privileges for the few and its oppres- sion of the many. The Dark Ages cast their shadow over the Infantry. For the warrior who felt the need of an armored skin so weighty as to require the services of other legs than his own and who spent his days philandering about the country slaying seven-headed, fire-eating dragons, or in beating a tattoo on the tin back of his opponent for the smiles of some fair maiden, the bloody, businesslike and unbefurbelowed infantry was no attractive service. There was a gory crudeness about infantry work which must have proved most distasteful to the scions of the leading families of that day. And let it not be forgotten that these were. the men with the money and the honors to acquire the services of the Troubadours and Chroniclers who then, even as now, sang their sweetest and scribbled their mightiest where the flesh pots lay. It Was the breekless Infantryman who did NOT run at the thunder of the guns at Valmy, and who gave Democracy its chance in the face of all the privilege of Europe.
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