 | Friedrich Kapp - History - 1859 - 728 pages
...of this nation is not in the least to be compared with that of the Prussians, Austrians, or French. You say to your soldier, " Do this, and he doeth it...This is the reason why you ought to do that," and then he does it were as raw as my soldiora. This army was renewed almost after every campaign, and... | |
 | George Washington Greene - United States - 1865 - 486 pages
...impairing their energy of will. " You say to your soldier," wrote Steuben to a Prussian officer, " Do this, and he doeth it. But I am obliged to say to mine, This is the reason why you ought to do that, and then he does it." Henceforth we begin to... | |
 | George Washington Greene - United States - 1865 - 484 pages
...impairing their energy of will. " You say to your soldier," wrote Steuben to a Prussian officer, " Do this, and he doeth it. But I am obliged to say to mine, This is the reason why you ought to do that, and then he does it." Henceforth we begin to... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1893 - 316 pages
...are all generals, but not soldiers;" and Baron Steuben wrote to a Prussian officer a little later: "You say to your soldier, ' Do this,' and he doeth it; but I am obliged to say to mine, ' This is the reason why you ought to do that,' and then he does it." The British officers... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1897 - 322 pages
...are all generals, but not soldiers;" and Baron Steuben wrote to a Prussian officer a little later: "You say to your soldier, ' Do this,' and he doeth it; but I am obliged to say to mine, 'This is the reason why you ought to do that,' and then he does it." The British officers... | |
 | John Roy Musick - United States - 1908 - 358 pages
...highest order. Shortly after he arrived, he wrote to a Prussian friend regarding the American volunteers, "You say to your soldier, 'Do this,' and he doeth it; but I am obliged to say to mine, ' This is the reason why you ought to do that,' and then he does it." As instructor-general... | |
 | Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - American literature - 1928 - 1046 pages
...of this nation is not in the least to be compared with that of the Prussians, Austrians or French. You say to your soldier, "Do this" and he doeth it....This is the reason why you ought to do that," and then he does it. 460 461 IV It is characteristic of Washington's habitual prudence that he tried Steuben... | |
 | Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - American literature - 1928 - 816 pages
...compared with that of the Prussians, Austrians or French, You say to your soldier, "Do this," and he docth it. But I am obliged to say, " This is the reason why you ought to do that," and then he does it IV It is characteristic of Washington's habitual prudence that he tried Steuben as... | |
 | Germans - 1930 - 212 pages
...of this nation is not in the least to be compared with that of the Prussians, Austrians, or French. You say to your soldier, "Do this and he doeth it;"..."This is the reason why you ought to do that," and then he does it. Your army is the growth of a century, mine of a day. My officers were as raw as my... | |
 | Child welfare - 1953 - 90 pages
...of this Nation is not in the least to be compared with that of the Prussians, Austrians, or French. You say to your soldier, 'Do this,' and he doeth it, but / am obliged to say, 'This is the reason why you ought to do that,' and then he does it." Nothing is... | |
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French. You say to your soldier, "Do this" and he doeth it. But I am obliged to say, " This is the reason why you ought to do that, 
