# Bob Acres

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{{For|the south Louisiana community named after this fictional character|Bob Acres, Louisiana}}
'''Bob Acres''' is a character in [Richard Brinsley Sheridan](/source/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan)'s ''[The Rivals](/source/The_Rivals)''.

Acres was a [coward](/source/coward), whose "courage always oozed out at his finger ends".  He was popularly played in the 19th century by [American](/source/United_States) [actor](/source/actor) [Joseph Jefferson](/source/Joseph_Jefferson).  (Jefferson named a Louisiana train station after this character; see [Bob Acres, Louisiana](/source/Bob_Acres%2C_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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