And thus not only was efficiency secured, but the devotion of his men, and their boundless confidence in his command.

[1315] Like other great captains, Wellington had an almost boundless capacity for work.

He drew up the heads of a Dublin Police Bill [13being still the Secretary for Ireland], when tossing off the mouth of the Mondego, with Junot and the French army waiting for him on the shore.

So Caesar, another of the greatest commanders, is said to have written an essay on Latin Rhetoric while crossing the Alps at the head of his army.
And Wallenstein when at the head of 60,000 men, and in the midst of a campaign with the enemy before him, dictated from headquarters the medical treatment of his poultry-yard.
Washington, also, was an indefatigable man of business.

From his boyhood he diligently trained himself in habits of application, of study, and of methodical work.