BULLARD, ROBERT LEE ), American soldier, was born at Youngsboro, Ala., on Jan. 15, 1861. He graduated from West Point military academy in 1885 and was appointed first lieutenant in 1892. He served in various capacities in the Spanish-American War, and in the Philippines from 1902 to 1904. He was made lieutenant-colonel in 1906. In 1907 he was special investigator for the U.S. Provisional Government in Cuba, and the following year was superintendent of public instruction there. In 1911 he was promoted colonel, and in 1917 brigadier general. He commanded the 2nd Brigade of the ist Division of the American Expeditionary Force in France in 1917, and was made major-general, National Army. From the middle of Dec. 1917 to the middle of July 1918 he commanded the ist Division; and from Oct. 1918 to the following July the II. Army. In Nov. 1918 he was appointed major-general in the regular army. At the opening of the second battle of the Marne, July 1918, which marked the turning-point of the war, Bullard wrote the message concluding with the words, "we are going to counter-attack." In 1925 he retired from active service. Besides numerous articles in magazines and military journals he wrote Personalities and Reminiscences of the War (1925).