{{For|the south Louisiana community named after this fictional character|Bob Acres, Louisiana}} '''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.)<ref>Benjamin McArthur, ''The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 274.</ref>
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.<ref>Winston Churchill, ‘My Early Life’ (London: Eland Publishing Limited, 2000), p. 307.</ref>
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