"He had not Sir John French's gift of speaking to the chance-met soldier. Once, I remember, he tried it.  There was a solitary private by the roadside, whom he forced himself to address.  Haig: 'Well, my man, where did you start the war?' Private (pale to the teeth): 'I swear to God, sir, i never started no war.' It was his last attempt."
-John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) on Field Marshal Douglas Haig. "Pilgrim's Way."