Bob Acres
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Bob Acres is a character in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals.
Acres was a coward, whose "courage always oozed out at his finger ends". He was popularly played in the 19th century by American actor Joseph Jefferson. (Jefferson named a Louisiana train station after this character; see Bob Acres, Louisiana.)[1]
Winston Churchill quotes General Brabazon as emitting the name of this character when informed his force was not to attack the Boers at Dewetsdorp during the 1899 campaign.[2]
