 | Theodore Ayrault Dodge - 1881 - 294 pages
...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 ask of you is military...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,... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - 1882 - 280 pages
...course it was not for 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...do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander, and withholding confidence... | |
 | Benjamin F. Cook - 1882 - 194 pages
...course it was not for 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...do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - 1883 - 1012 pages
...course it was not for 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...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
...course it was not for 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...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... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1887 - 834 pages
...course it was not for 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...do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which yon have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
