biography
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Bullard, Robert Lee
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originally William Bullard
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| lived:
| (1861–1947)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Lee Co, Alabama, USA. The shy, sickly son of a planter, he changed his first name to honour the Confederate commander. He trained at West Point (1885), and saw combat on the W frontier and in the Philippines (1900–1), and in 1918 his 1st Division became the first US division to occupy a section of the front line in France. He retired in 1925 and devoted his remaining years to writing and speech-making, often for conservative and isolationist causes. The last of his three books, Fighting Generals, appeared in 1944. |
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