He saw before him a loosely-built, powerful figure and a dark, clean-shaven face, of which the dominant features were the strong jaw and secretive-looking mouth, which seemed rather to recall the wild soldier of fortune of another epoch than the shrewd strategist and coldly able organiser Lingard had shown himself to be.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
He didn't just go from being a great military strategist to insanity and if he was insane, that's a sickness and they wouldn't have executed sick people-just people they were scared of.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
Like a skilled strategist, as he was, he had well reconnoitred the ground before entering upon it.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid