 | James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 618 頁
...same system and to lead you against the enemy. It is my purpose to do so, and that speedily. . . . I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which i This was July 8, CW, part ip 276. * This was July 21, Warden's Chase, p. 438; Schuckers's Chase, p.... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - 1902 - 444 頁
...adversary and to beat him when he was found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 頁
...an invidious comparison of military operations east and west, and by these expressions most of all: "I 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... | |
 | John William Jones - 1906 - 504 頁
...distinction you are capable of achieving. That opportunity I shall endeavor to give you. Meantime, I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I constantly hear of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1906 - 622 頁
...Committee, CW, part ip 280. * CW, Supp. part li. p. 105. 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... | |
 | Samuel Livingston French - 1906 - 388 頁
...the distinction you are capable of achieving. That opportunity I shall endeavor to give you. Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases, which I am sorry to find so much in vogue amonst you. I hear constantly of "taking strong positions and holding them," of "lines... | |
 | Samuel Livingston French - 1906 - 382 頁
...purpose to do so, and that speedily. certain phrases, which I am sorry to find so much in vogue amonst 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 lines of retreat of... | |
 | Joseph Ripley Chandler Ward - 1906 - 556 頁
...backs of their enemies", that his army was for advance and not for defence, and was to hear no more of "taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and bases of supplies", etc., etc., and announced his headquarters in the saddle. Orders were also issued for the withdrawal... | |
 | Alonzo Rothschild - 1906 - 576 頁
...you are capable of achieving. That opportunity I shall endeavor to give you. Meantime I desire yon 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... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1907 - 534 頁
...desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find so 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," and so on. There was in this a good deal of boasting... | |
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The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the enemy. 
