typeracer

In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin", when I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin, when such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at, and when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat", when I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, when I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery - in short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy - you'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.