 | George Francis Robert Henderson - Generals - 1898 - 708 pages
...speedily. . . . Meantime, I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases, which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking...discard such ideas. . . . Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of themselves. Let us look before... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 618 pages
...reply of July 7, OR, vol. xi. part ill pp. 295, 306. * Testimony before the Committee, CW, part ip 280. I am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you. I...of ' bases of supplies.' Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 594 pages
...295, 306. * Testimony before the Committee, C. W , part ip 280. * CW, Supp. part ii. p. 105. I am sony to find so much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly...of ' bases of supplies.' Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - United States - 1902 - 444 pages
...not defense Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking...positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas." The woeful outcome of Pope's boasts made them all the... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...expressions most of all: "I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking...positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 pages
...part ill pp. 295, 306. 4 Testimony before the Committee, CW, part ip 280. * CW, Supp. part li. p. 105. I am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you. I...of ' bases of supplies.' Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance... | |
 | John William Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 1906 - 504 pages
...from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I constantly hear of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and bases of supplies. Let us dismiss such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy... | |
 | Joseph Ripley Chandler Ward - Pennsylvania - 1906 - 556 pages
...backs of their enemies", that his army was for advance and not for defence, and was to hear no more of "taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and bases of supplies", etc., etc., and announced his headquarters in the saddle. Orders were also issued... | |
 | Carl Schurz - Germans - 1907 - 534 pages
...speedily. Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find so in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of ' taking...of 'bases of supplies.' Let us discard such ideas," and so on. There was in this a good deal of boasting not altogether well founded, and some almost contemptuous... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1907 - 534 pages
...speedily. Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find so in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of ' taking...of 'bases of supplies.' Let us discard such ideas," and so on. There was in this a good deal of boasting not altogether well founded, and some almost contemptuous... | |
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taking strong positions and holding them," of "lines of retreat," and of "bases of supplies. 
