Show the first war in a sense julius caesar was a war correspondent only he did not send his bis commentaries piecemeal from the theater of war but incited them at his bia leiasure leir sure in the subsequent peacetime the old swedish of the gustavus adolphus period was wag genuine war correspondence published indeed tardily compared with our oar news of today but nevertheless fresh from the scena of action full of distinctiveness quaint and racy beyond compare the first fast modern modem war correspondent professionally commissioned and paid by a newspaper yaa was mr G L gruneisen a well known literary man only recently dead who was sent to spain by tie morning post with the spanish leggion which sir do de lacy evans commanded in 1837 in the service of the queen of spain but this thia new departure was not followed up and no english pa payer was represented in the great battie 3 of the tas fircz and second war veirs rs forbes in century |