Julius Caesar captured eight hundred cities, conquered three hundred nations, and defeated three million men, became a great orator and one of the greatest statesmen known, and still was a young man.

Washington was appointed adjutant-general at nineteen, was sent at twenty-one as an ambassador to treat with the French, and won his first battle as a colonel at twenty-two.

Lafayette was made general of the whole French army at twenty.

Charlemagne was master of France and Germany at thirty.

Conde was only twenty-two when he conquered at Rocroi.