 | John William Jones - United States - 1879 - 402 pages
...spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success,...Government will support you to the utmost of its ability, %vhich is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear the spirit... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - United States - 1883 - 1012 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...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... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 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... | |
 | North American review - 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... | |
 | North American review - 1889 - 784 pages
...Hooker January 25, 1863. The next day Lincoln wrote Hooker a remarkable letter, in which he said : " Only those generals who gain successes can set up...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. . . . Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories."... | |
 | Thomas Clement Fletcher - Generals - 1891 - 538 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... | |
 | Thomas Clement Fletcher - Generals - 1891 - 518 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 L/ee 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... 
