/**
  * Search the tree for a match that satisfies specific comparison criteria,
  *                 branch contains the desired data for which to search the tree
  * @param compareFunc is a binary function object that defines
  *                                                                how to compare
  *    nodes
  * @param bRetrieve indicates whether or not the input search branch should be modified to reflect a branch in the tree, assuming a match satisfying the given search criteria exists
  * @return true if a branch matching the input is found
  *                    or returns nullptr otherwise
  *
  *    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
  *           it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,
  *        it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope,
  *            it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven,
  *        we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted
  *                                     on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
  *
  *        There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face
  *                      on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair
  *                                 face,
  *                           on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the
  *                           State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.
  *
  *            It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.
  *                                                 Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs.
  *                                       Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life
  *                 Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster.
  *           Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past
  *                           (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to
  *                     the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important
  *               to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.
  */