Forbes

forbz, Archibald (1838-1900), a noted English journalist. He was born in Scotland and died at London. When a young man he served in the Royal Dragoons. In 1864 he joined the staff of the London Daily News as a war correspondent. He followed the progress of the German army during the Franco-Prussian War, making a reputation not only for the character of his correspondence, but his energy and ingenuity in getting his reports in from the field of battle. He was sent to India in 1874 to report the famine, and accompanied the Prince of Wales in the following year in a tour of that country. The Servian War of 1876, the war between Russia and Turkey in 1877, the revolution in Cyprus in 1878, the Afghanistan campaign of 1879, and operations in Zululand occupied a busy pen. He has written a number of works, the most noted of which is perhaps Memories and Studies of War and Peace, which appeared in 1896.