My CMS The View from a New City

The Book of Mormon says that Mormon was the general of the Nephite army at 16. That sounded highly improbable and certainly not something one would insert into a fictional story if one wanted to be believed. However, Alexander the Great first commanded an army in a military campaign at 16.

Here is a quote from Jacques Barsun’s cultural history entitled From Dawn to Decadence:

Teenagers’ cultural contribution is more varied and better recorded , and the thought it brings to mind is the marked difference between earlier times and our own in the feeling about age…And in Castiglione’s manual of Renaissance manners, The Courtier, one of the engaging figures is Francesco della Rovera, nephew of the pope, Lord General at 17, and soon to be “General of Rome.”