 | Alice Fahs, Joan Waugh - History - 2004 - 300 pages
...the enemy." Second, he decided "to hammer continuously aga1nst the armed force of the enemy. and h1s resources. until by mere attrition. if in no other...way. there should be nothing left to him but an equal subm1ssion with the loyal section of our common country to the constitution and laws of the land."27... | |
 | Brian M. Thomsen - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 390 pages
..."First, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy;" and, Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force...enemy, and his resources, until, by mere attrition, if by nothing else, there should be nothing left to him but an equal submission, with the loyal section... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - History - 2004 - 736 pages
...Wherever Lee goes, there will you go;" and adding, that the characteristic of his campaign would be "to hammer continuously against the armed force of...enemy and his resources, until, by mere attrition, if nothing else, there shall be nothing left him but submission." His expressed desire was "to fight Lee... | |
 | Charles R. Bowery - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 296 pages
...troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy; preventing him from using the same force at different seasons against first one and then another of our armies" and "to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition,... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Generals - 1870 - 770 pages
...His system of warfare may be briefly summed up in his own words — to employ superior forces, and " to hammer continuously against the armed force of...enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if no other way, there should be nothing left to him but an equal submission with the loyal section of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1897 - 608 pages
...never spared himself. His plan was ' to hammer continuously against the armed forces of the enemy, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him but submission.' At Belmont Grant taught his defeated soldiers to cut a way through the enemy ; at Donelson... | |
 | Education - 1905 - 338 pages
...use the greatest number of troops practicable; second, to hammer 12 continuously against the enemy until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him but submission. David Glascoe Farragut. 1801-1870. As to being prepared for defeat, I certainly am not.... | |
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1885 - 778 pages
...possible against the enemy ; and his second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the rebels, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left for them but submission to the laws of the land. His first object had certainly been achieved ; all... | |
 | 1995 - 80 pages
...ports and manufacturing base of the Confederacy. In the words of his final report: "I... determined... to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources." Grant knew that he must not only destroy the main Confederate armies, but also destroy the capability... | |
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Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him but an equal submission with the loyal section of our common country to the Constitution... 
