| Periodicals - 1907 - 992 pages
...last three days have determined -that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him; — the operations of the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Corps have been a succession of splendid achievements."... | |
| Carl Schurz - Germans - 1907 - 534 pages
...the last three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him — the operations of the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Corps have been a succession of splendid achievements."... | |
| Carl Schurz - Germans - 1907 - 534 pages
...the last three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him — the operations of the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Corps have been a succession of splendid achievements."... | |
| Thomas Edward Watson - 1910 - 628 pages
...Potomac in General Orders, telling it ''The enemy must ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." While "there's nothing so certain as uncertainty," General Hooker could not, or would not, take such... | |
| Carl Schurz - Germans - 1907 - 536 pages
...the last three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him — the operations of the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Corps have been a succession of splendid achievements."... | |
| Philip Alexander Bruce - United States - 1907 - 394 pages
...enemy," he announced in a proclamation, " must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." And in private conversation, he declared with confidence that "the Confederate army was the legitimate... | |
| Oliver Otis Howard - United States - 1907 - 652 pages
...three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him. The operations of the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Corps have been a succession of splendid achievements.... | |
| Edward Porter Alexander - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 674 pages
...announcing that now — " the enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." And, indeed, if a general may ever be justified in enumerating his poultry while the process of incubation... | |
| 1908 - 524 pages
...the last three days has determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." The movement of our corps to the left had been a feint, and at 4 o'clock pm we were again en route... | |
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