The Colonel wrote to him asking for the cadetship and rehearsing at length the young captain's unusual qualifications and his military enthusiasm.
"Captain Jinks, Hero"
Ernest Crosby
At the age of eighteen he applied for a cadetship at the Military Academy at West Point, and received it direct from President Andrew Jackson himself.
"Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers"
J. Walker McSpadden
He leaves Oxford abruptly for an Indian cadetship, and sets out with the hope of finding wider scope for work and the earnest pursuit of loftier ideals in India.
"Studies in Literature and History"
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall