Quotes:Forbes, Archibald

Zirkoff, Boris

Forbes, Archibald (1838-1900). British war correspondent, born in Morayshire and educated at Aberdeen College. A Private in the Royal Dragoons before turning to journalism, he excelled as one of the greatest war correspondents of his day, reporting on the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 for the Morning Advertiser and the Daily News, as well as covering the Russo-Turkish war of 1877, the Afghan war of 1878, and the Zulu war of 1879. Author of: Memories and Studies of War and Peace, 1895.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 529