 And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting...  Military Expeditions Beyond the Seas - Page 246by George Armand Furse - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...foroe which has gone forward £.-? you is with yon by this time. And if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay, the enemy...by reinforcements alone. And once more let me tell yon, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. You will do me... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time; and if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay the enemy...it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...force which has gone forward for you is with you by this time. And if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay, the enemy...that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforcements than you can by reenforcements alone. And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton, John Lord - United States - 1903 - 566 pages
...Generalin-Chief that he has with him 85,000 effective men, and en route enough to make 108,000, remarking : " By delay the enemy will relatively gain upon you ;...reinforcements than you can by reinforcements alone." After further suggestions and expressions of kindness, he closed by saying — " But you must act."... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time; and if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay the enemy will relatively gain upon you—that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can by reinforcements... | |
 | Emory Upton - United States - 1904 - 538 pages
...— that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reenforcements than you can by reenforcements alone. And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember 1 always wished not going down... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1904 - 534 pages
...force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time; and if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay, the enemy will steadily gain on you — that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reenforcements than you... | |
 | Emory Upton - United States - 1904 - 532 pages
...force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time; and if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay, the enemy will steadily gain on you—that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reenforcements than you can... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 392 pages
...force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time ; and if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay the enemy...it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going 'down... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1906 - 612 pages
...thousand unorganized troops? This is a question which the country will not allow me to evade. . . . "By delay, the enemy will relatively gain upon you...more let me tell you it is indispensable to you that you~sfrik"e"a blow. ~T am powerless to help"TKis^ Toil wTlPdb me the justice to remember I always insisted... | |
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