 | John Joseph Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 310 pages
...desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find so much in vogue with you. I hear constantly of ' taking strong positions...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... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1916 - 600 pages
...shall endeavor to give you. Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you. I hear constant talk of 'taking strong positions and holding them,' of 'lines of retreat' and 'bases of supply.1... | |
 | John Singleton Mosby - United States - 1917 - 488 pages
...remarks about this proclamation. But what interested me most in this proclamation was the following : I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them, of lines of retreat and bases of supplies. Let us dismiss such ideas, ... let us study the probable lines of retreat of our... | |
 | John Singleton Mosby - United States - 1917 - 470 pages
...remarks about this proclamation. But what interested me most in this proclamation was the following : I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them, of lines of retreat and bases of supplies. Let us dismiss such ideas, ... let us study the probable lines of retreat of our... | |
 | George Francis Robert Henderson - United States - 1919 - 592 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...holding them — of lines of retreat and of bases oi supplies. Let us discard such ideas. . . . Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents,... | |
 | Allen Johnson - United States - 1921 - 460 pages
...to fight. "I presume that I have been called here to lead you against the enemy, and that speedily. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents,... | |
 | William Wood - Literary Criticism - 1921 - 474 pages
...fight. "I presume that I have been called here to lead you \ against the enemy, and that speedily. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents,... | |
 | William Wood - Literary Criticism - 1921 - 714 pages
...to fight. "I presume that I have been called here to lead you against the enemy, and that speedily. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents,... | |
 | Military art and science - 1922 - 768 pages
...shall endeavor to give you. Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which 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 readily advance... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - United States - 1923 - 396 pages
...you against the enemy. . . . Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases, which I am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you. I...supplies." Let us discard such ideas. . . . Let us look before us and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the... | |
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taking strong positions and holding them," of "lines of retreat," and of "bases of supplies. 
