 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 566 pages
...shall endeavor to give you. In the meantime, I desire you to dismiss certain phrases 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 strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy... | |
 | Military art and science - 1928 - 742 pages
...desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue among you. I hear constantly 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... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1052 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 easily advance... | |
 | John Selby - United States - 1999 - 296 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...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... | |
 | Edward A. Pollard - History - 2004 - 760 pages
...give you. 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...and 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... | |
 | Henry Alexander White - United States - 2004 - 569 pages
...not defence. ... 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 strong positions and holding them,—of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position... | |
 | Wilmer L. Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 392 pages
..."where we have always seen the backs of our enemies. . . . 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 and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance; disaster and shame lurk in the rear."5... | |
 | History - 1886 - 670 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 easily advance... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 706 pages
...give you. 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...and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The I GENERAL POPE'S COMMAND« 531 ' 1 about 5,000, was mostly badly mounted and armed, and ill poor... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1866 - 828 pages
...give you. " 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...and 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... | |
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taking strong positions and holding them," of "lines of retreat," and of "bases of supplies. 
