This prestige, unexplainable as it may be, constitutes the dominating influence of the leader over his following. Built on success and renown, it is made up of admiration, love, and sometimes fear, but is always unreasoned and idolatrous. It is by the domination of prestige that a leader is able to impress his feelings, his aims, and his will on those he leads. The exertions to which Hannibal and Napoleon could compel their men were incredible. A leader is at times obeyed by his followers as the lion-tamer by his lions, although often with as little means of coercing them, or even of saving himself from their jaws. Nor is the effect of prestige limited to the leader’s own following; it is as much felt by his opponents. Napoleon’s arrival on a battlefield was, Wellington said, worth a reinforcement of forty thousand men, and many of his successes in war were due to the fact that his enemies were frightened by his name, before they began to fight. Probably only two of his opponents escaped this influence--Blücher, in whom hatred left no place for fear; and Wellington, who said before the Peninsular War that he thought he could beat the French because he was not afraid of them. The prestige of Hannibal, like that of Nelson, always weakened the resolution of his foes. Dundonald with one ship chased a Portuguese squadron from Brazil to Europe. Drake’s very name was an abiding terror to Spain. “Stonewall” Jackson’s reputation was a constant alarm to Lincoln and the Federals. Lee’s personality was one of the main factors in staving off defeat from the South. When the crisis of her fate arrives, a country can only pray that a _Leader_ may be granted her. History can teach us that England has seldom prayed in vain. Cromwell, Marlborough, Clive, Wellington, the men of the Mutiny, and, above all, the long line of Admirals which culminates in Nelson, were living answers to her prayers. APPENDIX A ORIGIN OF MILITARY TERMS This chapter is intended to give an explanation of the way in which military terms--especially those connected with Organization--came to have their present technical meaning. Their derivation and, in some cases, the date of their introduction are given. Many of these terms have been noticed in the body of the text, and their origin mentioned. They are here collected for facility of reference. It will be noted that most of our commonest military terms are of considerable antiquity, and that they are essentially cosmopolitan words, widespread in use through Western Europe. Most of them were introduced in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The terms are arranged alphabetically in four lists: 1. Ranks and Offices. 2. Names of the different varieties of Troops, and of their Units and Formations. 3. Arms and Accoutrements. 4. Miscellaneous. 1. RANKS AND OFFICES