 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 766 pages
...command by issuing a grandiloquent proclamation to the officers and men under him, saying, " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen...has been to seek the adversary and to beat him when found. I presume that I have been called here to pursue the same system and to lead you against the... | |
 | John William Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 1906 - 504 pages
...operations, and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come from the West, where we have always seen the backs...has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense. In but one instance has the enemy been able to... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - United States - 1906 - 368 pages
...and overwhelm him. He announced to his troops, by way of a suitable introduction of himself: " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen...whose business it has been to seek the adversary and beat him when found, whose policy has been attack, not defense. I presume I have been called here to... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 462 pages
...army of Virginia, which contained the following language : " Let us understand each other ; I have come to you from the west, where we have always seen...— from an army whose business it has been to seek an adversary, and beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense. I presume I have... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 456 pages
...the army of Virginia, which contained the following language : " Let us understand each other; I have come to you from the west, where we have always seen...— from an army whose business it has been to seek an adversary, and beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense. I presume I have... | |
 | History - 1906 - 432 pages
...should advance. To inspirit his little army and impress the enemy, he issued an order saying: " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen...backs of our enemies — from an army whose business t was to seek the adversary and beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense."... | |
 | Samuel Livingston French - History - 1906 - 382 pages
...are nearly completed, and I am about to join you in the field. Let us understand each other. I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies ; and from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary and to beat him when he was found... | |
 | John William Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 1906 - 502 pages
...operations, and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies—from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found;... | |
 | Periodicals - 1907 - 992 pages
...the officers and soldiers of the Army of Virginia," in which he said such things as these: " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen...seek the adversary and to beat him when he was found; whose policy has been attack and not defense. I presume that I have been called here to pursue the... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1907 - 534 pages
...the officers and soldiers of the Army of Virginia," in which he said such things as these: " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen...seek the adversary, and to beat him when he was found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense. I presume that I have been called here to pursue the... | |
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I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. 
