 I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying, that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have; given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes...  The Transaction of Business - Page 160by Sir Arthur Helps - 1907 - 164 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John William Jones - 1879 - 402 pages
...spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success,...Government will support you to the utmost of its ability, %vhich is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear the spirit... | |
 | Theodore Ayrault Dodge - 1881 - 282 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done or will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit you have aided to infuse into the army,... | |
 | Theodore Ayrault Dodge - 1881 - 294 pages
...course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generaIs who gain success can set up dictators. What I now...ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done or will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit you have aided to infuse into the army,... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - 1883 - 1012 pages
...this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command, Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military...will support you to the utmost of its ability, which ia neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit... | |
 | United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 36th (1862-1865) - 1884 - 432 pages
...this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military...risk the dictatorship. The government will support y011 to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1885 - 476 pages
...but in spite of it, that i have given you the command. Only those generals who gain success can be dictators. What i now ask of you is military success, and i will risk the dictatorship. The government wHl support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 588 pages
...the government and the army needed a dictator Only those generals who gain successes can set up [as] dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." This was a bolt that struck not so much Hooker as McClellan. It sped straight at the vulnerable point... | |
 | 1887 - 668 pages
...that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." General Lee was a typical American, and knew that the Southern States could only succeed in forming... | |
 | 1889 - 784 pages
...Lincoln wrote Hooker a remarkable letter, in which he said : " Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. . . . Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories."... | |
 | Thomas Clement Fletcher - 1891 - 538 pages
...that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." General Lee was a typical American, and knew that the Southern States could only succeed in forming... | |
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