He wore his white coat, and he rode a white horse.

So he was always to be seen by his own men and by the enemy.

Perhaps he was wrong, but soldiers will fight better for a general who shares their perils.

Skobeleff used to do impossible things, because he believed that nothing was impossible that brave men made up their minds to do." Fred thought of Russian generals in the war with Japan who might have changed the whole course of that conflict had they had such ideas.

But he said nothing of this.