 | Edmund Burke - History - 1864 - 778 pages
...own would have to do if that command was away. I suppose the whole force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time ; and, if so, I think...for you to strike a blow. By delay, the enemy will readily gain on you ; that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements FOREIGN HISTORY.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1864 - 776 pages
...own would have to do if that command was away. I suppose the whole force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time ; and, if so, I think...for you to strike a blow. By delay, the enemy will readily gain on you ; that is, he will gaiu faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 852 pages
...in a letter to General McClellan, on the 9th, "I suppose the whole force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time, and if so, I think it...for you to strike a blow. By delay the enemy will steadily gain on you — that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 570 pages
...it is doing for yon precisely what -.: like number of your own would have to do if that command was away. I suppose the whole force which has gone forward...you is with you by this time. And if so, I think it ii the precise time for you to strike a blow. I!y delay, the enemy will relatively gain upon you —... | |
 | 1863 - 856 pages
...discrepancy of twenty-three thousand be accounted for ? I suppose the whole force which has gone forward far you is with you by this time; and, if so, I think...blow. By delay the enemy will relatively gain upon you; that is, ho will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can by reinforcements... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 848 pages
...it is doing for yon precisely what a like number of your own would have to do, if that command was away. I suppose the whole force which has gone forward...blow. By delay the enemy will relatively gain upon you ; that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reénforcementl than you can by reinforcements... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...own would have to do, if that command was away. I suppose the whole force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time : and if so, I think...for you to strike a. blow. By delay the enemy will steadily gain on you — that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforcements than you... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 672 pages
...understand it is doing for you precisely what a like number of your own would have to do if that command was away. I suppose the whole force which has gone forward...blow. By delay, the enemy will relatively gain upon you — that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforcements than you can by re-enforcements... | |
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I suppose the whole force which has gone forward for you is with you by this time. And if so. I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay, the enemy will relatively gain upon you — that is, he will gain faster by fortifications... 
