IMAGES AND DISCOURSES OF FIJIAN MILITARISM AND
SOLDIERSHIPAnalyzing the Confederacy's defeat, the Standard concluded: "After a series of brilliant victories gained under unequalled disadvantages--courage and skill and devotion have succumbed to brute force, and by sheer power of numbers a race inferior in every quality of
soldiership and manhood have prevailed over the bravest and most united people that ever drew the sword in defence of civil rights and national independence." From this perspective, a revolution of sorts had occurred.
"But many people who do not want to sign up to those regulations of
soldiership can become associate members.
It is surmised that he traveled in Italy and Germany and around, and qualified himself to put their scenic and social aspects upon paper; that he perfected himself in French, Italian, and Spanish on the road; that he went in Leicester's expedition to the Low Countries, as soldier or sutler or something, for several months or years--or whatever length of time a surmiser needs in his business--and thus became familiar with
soldiership and soldier-ways and soldier-talk and generalship and general-ways and general-talk, and seamanship and sailor-ways and sailor-talk.
Upon his release he was, in his own words, "considered a hopeless invalid".(6) The "hopeless invalid" received a military service pension for his industrious
soldiership during the Irish Revolution.