 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 598 pages
...desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of 'taking strong positions, and holding them'; of 'lines of retreat,' and of 'bases of supplies.' Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to... | |
 | William Allan - United States - 1892 - 886 pages
...desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases, which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them, — of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to... | |
 | William Allan - United States - 1892 - 580 pages
...desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases, which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them, — of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to... | |
 | William A. Spicer - United States - 1892 - 444 pages
...desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking "strong positions and holding them, " of " lines of retreat," and of " bases of supph." Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to... | |
 | William A. Spicer - United States - 1892 - 432 pages
...constantly of taking "strong positions and holding them, "of" lines of retreat," and of " buses of supply." Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the enemy. Let us study the probable lines of retreat... | |
 | Charles E. Davis - United States - 1893 - 570 pages
...desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of " taking strong positions and holding them," of " lines of retreat," and of "bases of supplies." Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to... | |
 | Charles E. Davis - History - 1894 - 566 pages
...of '.'taking strong positions and holding them," of "lines of retreat," and of "bases pr'supplies." Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the enemy. Let us study the probable lines of retreat... | |
 | Henry Alexander White - United States - 1897 - 648 pages
...desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases, which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them, — of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to... | |
 | George Francis Robert Henderson - Generals - 1898 - 708 pages
...desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases, which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. . . . Let us study the probable line of retreat of... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 594 pages
...Committee, C. W , part ip 280. * CW, Supp. part ii. p. 105. I am sony to find so much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of ' taking strong positions and holding them,' of ' lines of retreat,' and of ' bases of supplies.' Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire... | |
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I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat, and of bases of supplies. 
