Are We Ready!Houghton Mifflin, 1915 - 227 oldal |
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3. oldal
... facts previously not guessed at or at any rate not fully grasped . I set this fact down because it was only re- cently that I completed just such an investi- gation . It was undertaken for the purpose of placing before the non ...
... facts previously not guessed at or at any rate not fully grasped . I set this fact down because it was only re- cently that I completed just such an investi- gation . It was undertaken for the purpose of placing before the non ...
5. oldal
... facts , agreed upon by the ablest military minds of the nation . There are many more just as interesting . Are they important ? Is a trained force of 50,000 men within our borders ample at this time ? Is an invasion of the United States ...
... facts , agreed upon by the ablest military minds of the nation . There are many more just as interesting . Are they important ? Is a trained force of 50,000 men within our borders ample at this time ? Is an invasion of the United States ...
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Howard Duryée Wheeler. ing , or agility on his part , but to the fact that the other fellow , if not wholly prepared , was sufficiently alert to be able to block , to weather the first furious assault , and to wait for an opening for a ...
Howard Duryée Wheeler. ing , or agility on his part , but to the fact that the other fellow , if not wholly prepared , was sufficiently alert to be able to block , to weather the first furious assault , and to wait for an opening for a ...
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... Over in Europe we are getting daily proof of the fact that it is one thing to thumb one's nose at one's neighbor and quite another thing to CHAPTER II AN ATTACK ON NEW YORK SUPPOSE : - watch one's eye . ARE WE READY ?
... Over in Europe we are getting daily proof of the fact that it is one thing to thumb one's nose at one's neighbor and quite another thing to CHAPTER II AN ATTACK ON NEW YORK SUPPOSE : - watch one's eye . ARE WE READY ?
27. oldal
... facts which cannot be disputed . I have shown the manuscript of this chapter to several mili- tary experts and all agreed that under the con- ditions which I have imagined , with the city's fate hanging on a bare 50,000 men , and an ...
... facts which cannot be disputed . I have shown the manuscript of this chapter to several mili- tary experts and all agreed that under the con- ditions which I have imagined , with the city's fate hanging on a bare 50,000 men , and an ...
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85. oldal - There are four things, which, I humbly conceive, are essential to the well-being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States, as an independent power.
222. oldal - I am very much interested in the successful working out of the idea of these college camps. I believe the students attending will derive not only a great deal of physical benefit from the healthful, open-air life, but also that they will benefit from the discipline, habits of regularity, and the knowledge of personal and camp sanitation which the experience in camp will give them. The camps will also tend to disseminate sound information concerning our military history and the present policy of the...
198. oldal - Such a dearth of public spirit and such want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another in this great change of military arrangement I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again.
198. oldal - ... such a dirty, mercenary spirit pervades the whole, that I should not be at all surprised at any disaster that may happen.
86. oldal - Congress will recommend a proper peace establishment for the United States, in which a due attention will be paid to the importance of placing the militia of the Union upon a regular and respectable footing. If this should be the case, I would...
168. oldal - More than this, proposed at this time, permit me to say, would mean merely that we had lost our self-possession, that we had been thrown off our balance by a war with which we have nothing to do, whose causes can not touch us, whose very existence affords us opportunities of friendship and disinterested service which should make us ashamed of any thought of hostility or fearful preparation for trouble.
86. oldal - No one who has not learned it from experience, can conceive the difficulty, expense, and confusion which result from a contrary system, or the vague arrangements which have hitherto prevailed.
207. oldal - We are now left with a good deal less than halfraised regiments, and about five thousand militia, who only stand engaged to the middle of this month, when, according to custom, they will depart, let the necessity of their stay be ever so urgent. Thus, for more than two months past, I have scarcely emerged from one difficulty before I have been plunged into another.
86. oldal - The prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States, which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies ; to make those mutual concessions, which are requisite to the general prosperity ; and, in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community.
192. oldal - Convinced as I am, that a government is the murderer of its , citizens, which sends them to the field uninformed and untaught, where they are to meet men of the same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle...