 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1836 - 774 pagina’s
...most part ignorant alike of war, and their own profession ; while a heterogeneous mass of purveyors August, and their subordinates, acting without any...of civilization that would prevent war altogether. 1 Ml"' corrcspon- * t v * Such was the state of affairs on the allies' line of communication, when,... | |
 | 1837 - 830 pagina’s
...service most dif>t iii'j "i-lii'il. Nay, many even uf the welleducated surgeons sent out, '-.vc IT for some time of little use, for superior professional...of civilization that would prevent war altogether." Most earnestly do we recommend these important observations to the Government ; und most sincerely... | |
 | 1837 - 754 pagina’s
...superior professional skill is of little value in comparison of experience in military arrangements; where one soldier dies from the want of a delicate...of civilization that would prevent war altogether." Most earnestly ilo we recommend these important observations to the Government ; anil most sincerely... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 1060 pagina’s
...War tries the strength of the military frame-work ; it is in peace that the frame-work itself must Le formed, otherwise Barbarians would be the leading soldiers of the world ; a perfect army run only be made by civil institutions, and those, rightly considered, would lend to confine the horrors... | |
 | Edward Barrington De Fonblanque - 1858 - 498 pagina’s
...workings of administration, or to * " War tries the strength of the military framework ; it is in peace the framework itself must be formed ; otherwise barbarians...perfect army can only be made by civil institutions." — Napier's Peninsular War. Cause* mi Examples of tivc duties by generals. mark bow materially they... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1864 - 604 pagina’s
...being stretched as it were on the bed of Procrustes by a discipline which has no resource but fear." " War tries the strength of the military framework ;...of civilization that would prevent war altogether." " England stood the most triumphant nation in the world ; but with an enormous debt, a dissatisfied... | |
 | Edmund Hodgson Yates - 1872 - 758 pagina’s
...long in arriving. ' War tries the strength of the military framework,' says Napier. ' It is in peace the framework itself must be formed, otherwise barbarians...perfect army can only be made by civil institutions? Yet with us such was the state of the ' framework,' by the results of a beggarly system of political... | |
 | 1871 - 832 pagina’s
...the House of Commons. 468 THE GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF ARMY REFORM. ' YTTAR tries the strength of the W military framework ; it is in peace that the framework...barbarians would be the leading soldiers of the world. ' The slightest movement in war requires a great effort, and is attended by many vexations which the... | |
 | 1871 - 848 pagina’s
...early as the 26th of January, just three days after the first hint of an armistice being protries tt military framework ; it is in peace that the framework...barbarians would be the leading soldiers of the world. ' The slightest movement in war requires a great effort, and is attended by many vexations which the... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1871 - 866 pagina’s
...the House of Commons. 468 THE GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF ARMY REFORM. ' TTTAR tries the strength of the | V military framework ; it is in peace that the framework...barbarians would be the leading soldiers of the world. ' The slightest movement in war requires a great effort, and is attended by many vexations which the... | |
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Nay, many even of the welleducated surgeons sent out were for some time of little use, for superior professional skill is of little value in comparison of experience in military arrangement; where one soldier dies from the want of a delicate operation,... 
