 | Fletcher Pratt - 1997 - 466 strani
...of our enemies. I hear constantly of lines of retreat. Let us discard such ideas. Let us study the lines of retreat of our opponents and leave our own to take care of themselves. Disaster and shame are in the rear." The army was much insulted; Pope heard catcalls round his tent... | |
 | John Selby - 1999 - 296 strani
...lines of retreat and bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas . . . Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of themselves. Let us look before and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear.' ' Pope... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 strani
...adversary, and to beat him when he was found; whose policy has been to attack and not defense. . . . Let us look before us, and not behind. Success and...the advance; disaster and shame lurk in the rear." On June 26, Pope was assigned command of the newly created Army of Virginia, which Lincoln had created... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2002 - 232 strani
...vogue among you . . . certain phrases [like] . . . Mines of retreat/ and 'bases of supplies.' . . . Let us study the probable lines of retreat of our...own to take care of themselves. Let us look before and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear."' No one,... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2002 - 224 strani
...lines of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of themselves. Let us look before and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear."27 No one, least of all McClellan, missed the point of this maladroit General John Pope, who... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - 2004 - 736 strani
...to occupy is one from which he can most eas1ly advance toward the enemy. Let us study the possible lines of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own...the advance. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear. After this bombastic fulmination, Pope immediately proceeded to wage unsoldierly war upon the peaceable... | |
 | Thomas Harry Williams - 1941 - 444 strani
...presume that I have been called here to pursue the same system and to lead you against the enemy. . . . The strongest position a soldier should desire to...are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.12 To the soldiers of Banks and McDowell, who had so recently braved the sword of Stonewall Jackson... | |
 | Lance J. Herdegen - 1997 - 296 strani
...vogue amongst you . . . certain phrases [such as] 'lines of retreat,' and 'bases of supplies.' . . . Let us study the probable lines of retreat of our...are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear."5 Pope's words were ill-received. "General Pope's bombastic proclamation has not tended to increase... | |
 | Wilmer L. Jones - 2006 - 392 strani
...'lines of retreat,' and of 'bases of supplies.' Let us discard such ideas. . . . Let us look before and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance; disaster and shame lurk in the rear."5 Severe reaction to Pope's proclamation came from McClellan and the men of the Army of the Potomac.... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1861 - 706 strani
...McOlellan retreated to James river. The question then arose, how, under this altered condition of affairs, the strongest position a soldier should desire to...own to take care of themselves. Let us look before, and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear. Let us act... | |
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I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the... 
