# The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 Genre: Category: Short Stories Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11247 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Exploits+of+Brigadier+Gerard+Doyle&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary You do very well, my friends, to treat me with some little reverence, for in honouring me you are honouring both France and yourselves. It is not merely an old, grey-moustached officer whom you see eating his omelette or draining his glass, but it is a fragment of history. In me you see one of the last of those wonderful men, the men who were veterans when they were yet boys, who learned to use a sword earlier than a razor, and who during a hundred battles had never once let the enemy see the colour of their knapsacks. For twenty years we were teaching Europe how to fight, and even when they had learned their lesson it was only the thermometer, and never the bayonet, which could break the... ## Chapters - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-exploits-of-brigadier-gerard-11247/chapters/17/index.md)