which no enemy ever heard unmoved. Suddenly he stopped at a
conspicuous point, for he desired both armies should know he was
there, and a double spy who was present pointed out Soult, who was
so near that his features could be distinguished. Attentively
Wellington fixed his eyes on that formidable man, and, as if
speaking to himself, he said: "Yonder is a great commander; but he
is cautious, and will delay his attack to ascertain the cause of
those cheers; that will give time for the Sixth Division to
arrive, and I shall beat him"--which he did. (14)

In some cases, personal character acts by a kind of talismanic
influence, as if certain men were the organs of a sort of
supernatural force. "If I but stamp on the ground in Italy," said
Pompey, "an army will appear." At the voice of Peter the Hermit,
as described by the historian, "Europe arose, and precipitated
itself upon Asia." It was said of the Caliph Omar that his
walking-stick struck more terror into those who saw it than
another man's sword. The very names of some men are like the
sound of a trumpet. When the Douglas lay mortally wounded on the
field of Otterburn, he ordered his name to be shouted still louder
than before, saying there was a tradition in his family that a
dead Douglas should win a battle. His followers, inspired by the
sound, gathered fresh courage, rallied, and conquered; and thus,
in the words of the Scottish poet:-

"The Douglas dead, his name hath won the field." (15)

There have been some men whose greatest conquests have been
achieved after they themselves were dead. "Never," says Michelet,
"was Caesar more alive, more powerful, more terrible, than when