Are We Ready!Houghton Mifflin, 1915 - 227 oldal |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 26 találatból.
7. oldal
... sufficiently alert to be able to block , to weather the first furious assault , and to wait for an opening for a heavy counter . The initial advantage of war is always with the aggressor . Major - General Leonard Wood , former Chief of ...
... sufficiently alert to be able to block , to weather the first furious assault , and to wait for an opening for a heavy counter . The initial advantage of war is always with the aggressor . Major - General Leonard Wood , former Chief of ...
19. oldal
... sufficient ammunition at hand for more than a brief action . It has de- veloped that New York has the only complete divisional organization . The total shortage , should the concentration of our available mili- tia be accomplished , is ...
... sufficient ammunition at hand for more than a brief action . It has de- veloped that New York has the only complete divisional organization . The total shortage , should the concentration of our available mili- tia be accomplished , is ...
26. oldal
... sufficient for 10,000 volunteers . Without or- ganization or sufficient officers , these recruits have been rushed to the support of the little army advancing toward Saybrook . Washington , March 27 — The following offi- cial statement ...
... sufficient for 10,000 volunteers . Without or- ganization or sufficient officers , these recruits have been rushed to the support of the little army advancing toward Saybrook . Washington , March 27 — The following offi- cial statement ...
35. oldal
... sufficient mobile army equipped and trained to fight efficiently in any theater of war which an enemy may select . The complete defense of our coast line depends upon the combined efforts of our coast artillery and our mobile forces ...
... sufficient mobile army equipped and trained to fight efficiently in any theater of war which an enemy may select . The complete defense of our coast line depends upon the combined efforts of our coast artillery and our mobile forces ...
42. oldal
... were built in English ports would have been impossible . If Russia in 1905 had been able to assemble a sufficiently strong fleet at Port Arthur , Japan would not have dared to send transports to China and 42 ARE WE READY ?
... were built in English ports would have been impossible . If Russia in 1905 had been able to assemble a sufficiently strong fleet at Port Arthur , Japan would not have dared to send transports to China and 42 ARE WE READY ?
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adequate advance aeroplanes American ammunition army post ARTILLERY BATTERY Atlantic attack auxiliary arms batteries battle Boston camps cavalry citizen forces citizen soldier citizenship coast artillery Congress coöperation corps cost Division drill efficiency enemy enemy's enlisted equipment Europe fact field artillery field guns fighting fleet French FRITZ KREISLER GEORGE VON L German Government harbors hostile infantry infantry and cavalry lack land troops Leonard Wood March March 18 March 29 means ment mili military experts military policy military training militia organizations mobile forces naval navy necessary necessity offi officers Oliver Herford organiza organized militia ourselves patriotism peace peril possible practice present President Prussian recruits regular army reported reserve rifle scouts Secretary Secretary of War secured ships shortage shrapnel Staff Stimson sufficient superiority of fire supply Swiss tary theory things tion to-day United volunteer warships Washington wholly York
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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...