The History of the United States ArmyD. Appleton, 1924 - 609 halaman |
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... battalions . Gaps of varying sizes opened and closed within and between companies . Cannons mounted on rickety carriages rumbled along on awkward and noisy cart wheels . Farmer Stout going into the fields in the early morn- ing beheld ...
... battalions . Gaps of varying sizes opened and closed within and between companies . Cannons mounted on rickety carriages rumbled along on awkward and noisy cart wheels . Farmer Stout going into the fields in the early morn- ing beheld ...
Halaman 28
... battalions of militia from Pennsylvania , three from New Jersey , and two of continentals from Virginia . The colonies made it continually more difficult for the central government to obtain soldiers . Connecticut and Massachusetts ...
... battalions of militia from Pennsylvania , three from New Jersey , and two of continentals from Virginia . The colonies made it continually more difficult for the central government to obtain soldiers . Connecticut and Massachusetts ...
Halaman 31
... battalions of continentals or regulars to be taken proportionally from all thirteen colonies . If the soldier engaged for the entire war he was offered $ 20 in money and from 500 acres of land for a colonel to 100 for a private . The ...
... battalions of continentals or regulars to be taken proportionally from all thirteen colonies . If the soldier engaged for the entire war he was offered $ 20 in money and from 500 acres of land for a colonel to 100 for a private . The ...
Halaman 32
... battalion measure showed advancement in the attempt to establish a regular continental army for which Washington had contended through so many months , but the bounty system was the inauguration of wasteful legislation . Further , in ...
... battalion measure showed advancement in the attempt to establish a regular continental army for which Washington had contended through so many months , but the bounty system was the inauguration of wasteful legislation . Further , in ...
Halaman 35
... battalions of infantry . . . to appoint all offi- cers below the rank of brigadier general ... to take , wherever he may be , whatever he may want for the use of the army . " In ad- dition to this plenipotentiary arrangement it allowed ...
... battalions of infantry . . . to appoint all offi- cers below the rank of brigadier general ... to take , wherever he may be , whatever he may want for the use of the army . " In ad- dition to this plenipotentiary arrangement it allowed ...
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Halaman 39 - THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Halaman 66 - Country, while the common interests of America are mouldering and sinking into irretrievable (if a remedy is not soon applied) ruin, in which theirs also must ultimately be involved. If I was to be called upon to draw A picture of the times, and of Men; from what I have seen, heard, and in part know...
Halaman 51 - This brought forth the only commissary in the purchasing line in this camp ; and, with him, this melancholy and alarming truth, that he had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour!
Halaman 89 - ... nobler figure ever stood in the forefront of a nation's life. Washington was grave and courteous in address; his manners were simple and unpretending; his silence and the serene calmness of his temper spoke of a perfect self-mastery ; but there was little in his outer bearing to reveal the grandeur of soul which lifts his figure with all the simple majesty of an ancient statue, out of the smaller passions, the meaner impulses of the world around him.
Halaman 99 - That every citizen so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch with a box therein to contain not less than twentyfour cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball: or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of...
Halaman 30 - Our situation is truly distressing. The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off — in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time.
Halaman 226 - I give it as my fixed opinion that but for our graduated cadets the war between the United States and Mexico might and probably would have lasted four or five years with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share ; whereas in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.
Halaman 216 - History may be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry. Half of it has been through a wilderness where nothing but savages and wild beasts are found, or deserts where, for want of water, there is no living creature.
Halaman 74 - I would not have had a swamp in view of my militia on any consideration; they would have made for it, and nothing could have detained them from it. And as to covering my wings, I knew my adversary, and was perfectly sure I should have nothing but downright fighting. As to retreat, it was the very thing I wished to cut off all hope of. I would have thanked Tarleton had he surrounded me with his cavalry. It would have been better than placing my own men in the rear to shoot down those who broke from...
Halaman 121 - Each troop of cavalry shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one first sergeant, one quartermaster sergeant...