Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, From Its Original Institution Down to the Present Era, 1803
Never was military prowess more loudly called for, than at the present crisis - Ardour should be raised in every rank. 'it. Is a plant, which, by fostering attention ?ourishes and grows, but if neglected, soon droops and dies. Courage is the natural birth-aright of an Englishman, and it needs only a directing hand, under Providence, to give it an invincible aim.
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