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Page 14
There was everywhere a rude military organization , which included all the able -
bodied men of the community . Every settlement had its colonels and captains ;
but these officers , both in the training and in the authority they exercised ...
There was everywhere a rude military organization , which included all the able -
bodied men of the community . Every settlement had its colonels and captains ;
but these officers , both in the training and in the authority they exercised ...
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Partly through her aid , and partly by their own exertions , they were able to find ,
and make friends with , a band of wandering Shoshones , from whom they got
horses . Having cached their boats and most of their goods they started westward
...
Partly through her aid , and partly by their own exertions , they were able to find ,
and make friends with , a band of wandering Shoshones , from whom they got
horses . Having cached their boats and most of their goods they started westward
...
Page 38
He was a master of strategy and tactics , fearless of responsibility , able to instill
into his men his own intense ardor in battle , and so quick in his movements , so
ready to march as well as fight , that his troops were known to the rest of ...
He was a master of strategy and tactics , fearless of responsibility , able to instill
into his men his own intense ardor in battle , and so quick in his movements , so
ready to march as well as fight , that his troops were known to the rest of ...
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... Jackson , and Jackson begged to be allowed to make one of his favorite flank
attacks upon the Union army ; attacks which could have been successfully
delivered only by a skilled and resolute general , and by troops equally able to
march ...
... Jackson , and Jackson begged to be allowed to make one of his favorite flank
attacks upon the Union army ; attacks which could have been successfully
delivered only by a skilled and resolute general , and by troops equally able to
march ...
Page 51
My plea is that the virtuous man , the decent man , shall be a strong man , able to
hold his own in any way , just because I wish him to be an agent in eradicating
the misconception that being decent somehow means being weak ; I want this to
...
My plea is that the virtuous man , the decent man , shall be a strong man , able to
hold his own in any way , just because I wish him to be an agent in eradicating
the misconception that being decent somehow means being weak ; I want this to
...
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| Title | The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches Volume 3 of Publications of the Roosevelt Memorial Association Volume 272 of Riverside literature series Issue 3 of Roosevelt memorial association |
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Editor | John Ashby Lester |
| Compiled by | Hermann Hagedorn |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 |
| Length | 325 pages |
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