 | J. T. Headley - Presidents - 1879 - 880 pages
...bring the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy, and prevent hirn from using the same force at different seasons against...possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance." This plan was very simple, and commended itself to... | |
 | J. T. Headley - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 864 pages
...superior position." Entertaining such views, he said that it should be of the first importance " to bring the greatest number of troops 'practicable against the armed force of the enemy, and prevent him from using the same force at different seasons against first one and then another of... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1881 - 674 pages
...entirely broken. "I therefore deturmined, first, to uso the greatest number of troops practicable agamst the armed force of the enemy ; preventing him from...possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1881 - 618 pages
...a speedy termination of the war. Accordingly, when placed in supreme command, he at once determined to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy. This was the primal idea, the cardinal principle with which he began his campaigns as general-in-chief... | |
 | Charles Folsom Walcott - Massachusetts - 1882 - 570 pages
...that would be stable and conducive to the happiness of the people, both north and south, until the military power of the rebellion was entirely broken....possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy, preventing it from using the same force at different seasons against...possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance ; second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Generals - 1885 - 686 pages
...that would be stable and conducive to the happiness of the people, both North and South, until the military power of the rebellion was entirely broken....possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Generals - 1885 - 668 pages
...that would be stable and conducive to the happiness of the people, both North and South, until the military power of the rebellion was entirely broken....possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 644 pages
...and resources were not more than balanced by these disadvantages and the enemy's superior position. "I therefore determined, first, to use the greatest...possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance; second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Generals - 1885 - 108 pages
...a speedy termination of the war. Accordingly, when placed in supreme command, he at once determined to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy. This was the primal idea, the cardinal principle with which he began his campaigns as General-in-Chief—to... | |
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I therefore determined, first, to use the greatest number of 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 the possibility of... 
