title: Great Military Leaders and their Campaigns
author:  Jeremy Black 
description: Lavishly illustrated A good gift for anyone interested in military history or for the novice.<br /> <br /> - <strong><em>New York Military Affairs Symposium</em></strong>
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  Real Soldiers of Fortune  
    
  
  * [MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY RONALD DOUGLAS MACIVER
  
  
  
  
  
  * [BARON JAMES HARDEN-HICKEY
  
  
  
  
  
  * [WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL
  
  
  
  
  
  * [CAPTAIN PHILO NORTON McGIFFIN
  
  
  
  
  
  * [GENERAL WILLIAM WALKER, THE KING OF THE FILIBUSTERS
  
  
  
  
  
  * [MAJOR BURNHAM, CHIEF OF SCOUTS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Real Soldiers of Fortune
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Richard Harding Davis
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY RONALD DOUGLAS MACIVER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ANY sunny afternoon, on Fifth Avenue, or at night in the table
  
  
  
  
  
  d'hote restaurants of University Place, you may meet the soldier
  
  
  
  
  
  of fortune who of all his brothers in arms now living is the most
  
  
  
  
  
  remarkable. You may have noticed him; a stiffly erect,
  
  
  
  
  
  distinguished-looking man, with gray hair, an imperial of the
  
  
  
  
  
  fashion of Louis Napoleon, fierce blue eyes, and across his
  
  
  
  
  
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