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William Francis Butler

Born

in Suirville, County Tipperary, Ireland

October 31, 1838

Died

June 07, 1910

Genre

History, Biography, Memoir

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Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Butler, GCB, FRGS, PC (Ire.)

Born into an upper middle-class Roman Catholic family in Suirville, County Tipperary, Ireland, he was educated by the Jesuits and commissioned an Ensign (2nd Lieutenant) in the 69th Regiment of Foot. He had a long and distinguished career in the British Army, which at the time was unusual for a Catholic Irishman. He was also an explorer, appointed an Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to Queen Victoria, appointed a Member of the Irish Privy Council (PC), a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS), invested a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB), a member of the senate of the National University of Ireland, a commissioner of the Board of National Education, supporter of H ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 86 ratings · 13 reviews · 75 distinct works

	The Great Lone Land 4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1872 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wild North Land: Being the Story of a Winter Journey, With Dogs, Across Northern North America 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1873 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Charles George Gordon 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1889 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Cloud, the Solitary Sioux: A Story of the Great Prairie 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1882 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lombard Communes: A History of the Republics of North Italy 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1906 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Akim-Foo: The History of a Failure liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1875 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Campaign of the Cataracts: Being a Personal Narrative of the Great Nile Expedition of 1884-5 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1887 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Lone Land and The Wild North Land by William Francis Butler, Duncan Robinson (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sir William Butler: An Autobiography by William Francis Butler, Eileen Butler (Foreward) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1911 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of Sir George Pomeroy-Colley, K.C.S.I., C.B., C.M.G., 1835-1881; Including Services in Kaffraria, in China, in Ashanti, in India, and in Natal liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1899 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon

tags: cowardice, fighting, renaissance-man, thinking, well-roundedness

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