| Theodore Roosevelt - 1886 - Страниц: 392
...Southern kinsmen. The militant spirit of these last certainly stood them in good stead in the Civil War. The world has never seen better soldiers than those...stand as the full equal of Marlborough and Wellington. The other Western States still kept touch on the old colonial communities of the sea-coast, having... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 1886 - Страниц: 386
...The militant spirit of these last certainly stood them in good stead in the Civil War. The world Las never seen better soldiers than those who followed...stand as the full equal of Marlborough and Wellington. The other Western States still kept touch on the old colonial communities of the sea-coast, having... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1888 - Страниц: 338
...immediate subject, expressed with great freedom and equal positiveness. Thus, of General Lee he says: "The world has never seen better soldiers than those...as the full equal of Marlborough and Wellington." Of General Scott: " A good general, but otherwise a wholly absurd and flatulent personage." Of General... | |
| Southern Historical Society - 1897 - Страниц: 800
...undoubtedly rank as, without any exception, the very greatest of all great captains that the English speaking peoples have brought forth; and this, although the...as the full equal of Marlborough and Wellington." And last, but not least, General Grant, to whom Mr.. Roosevelt referred above, speaks of these soldiers... | |
| Southern Historical Society - 1897 - Страниц: 800
...undoubtedly rank as, without any exception, the very greatest of all great captains that the English speaking peoples have brought forth ; and this, although the...as the full equal of Marlborough and Wellington." And last, but not least, General Grant, to whom Mr.. Roosevelt referred above, speaks of these soldiers... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - Страниц: 390
...Southern kinsmen. The militant spirit of these last certainly stood them in good stead in the civil war. The world has never seen better soldiers than those...stand as the full equal of Marlborough and Wellington. The other Western States still kept touch on the old colonial communities of the seacoast, having a... | |
| Randolph Harrison McKim - 1904 - Страниц: 44
...and the President of the United States, Mr. Roosevelt, has said in his "Life of Thomas H. Benton" : "The world has never seen better soldiers than those...antagonists, may himself claim to stand as the full equal of Wellington and Marlborough." As to the rank and file, General Hooker of the Union Army has said that... | |
| 1907 - Страниц: 222
...courage WHICH No HUMAN LIPS CAN SPEAK. SUE HAMMET TYLER. East Radford, Virginia. 179 LEE AS A SOLDIER THE world has never seen better soldiers than those...stand as the full equal of Marlborough and Wellington. 180 THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER HERE'S to the Memory of the heroes who at the cannon's mouth gave up all... | |
| John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1907 - Страниц: 436
...undoubtedly rank, without exception, the very greatest of all the great Captains that the English speaking peoples have brought forth, and this, although the...himself claim to stand as the full equal of Marlborough or Wellington." Thus wrote Theodore Roosevelt, in his Life of Thomas H. Benton. (Page 38.) Some may... | |
| Thomas Edward Watson - 1907 - Страниц: 868
...brought forth — and this, ROBERT E. LEE, JR., WHO WITH HIS SISTER ATTENDED THE EXERCISES AT RICHMOND. although the last and chief of his antagonists may...as the full equal of Marlborough and- Wellington." Thus, with a generosity for which he has never received full credit, Mr. Roosevelt classes Robert E.... | |
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