"Do you remember, Dick, what it was that Napoleon said about generals ?" "A general is everything, an army nothing or something like that." "Yes, that was it.

Of course, he didn't mean it just exactly as he said it.

A general can't be one hundred per cent and an army none.

It was a figure of speech so to say, but I imagine that a general is about forty per cent.

If we had had such leadership at Bull Run we'd have won." Dick and Warner, worn out by their long ride, soon slept but there was movement all around them during the late hours of the night.