 | Byron Farwell - 1993 - 582 pagina’s
...of whom had spent more than twenty years in the service, had played significant roles. Scott said: "I give it as my fixed opinion that but for our graduated...more defeats than victories falling to our share." Many of these junior officers were to achieve high rank and find fame on one side or the other in the... | |
 | James L. Morrison - 1998 - 278 pagina’s
...US Congress, Senate, Doc. 98, Report of the Secretary of War. 32nd Cong., 1st sess., 1852. 1-3. 33. "I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated...the war between the United States and Mexico might have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to... | |
 | Stephen E. Ambrose - 1999 - 430 pagina’s
...whose campaign against Mexico City ranks as one of the greatest in the annals of warfare. Scott said, "I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated...probably would, have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half. more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two... | |
 | Frances Marvin Smith Webster, Lucien Bonaparte Webster - 2000 - 356 pagina’s
...data are available. To Eric e3 Molly, Doug, Sue, z3 Libby, Troy, Jon, Katie, Witt, Nathan, e3 Steven I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated...probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two... | |
 | Matthew Moten - 2000 - 300 pagina’s
...the younger, professional class of officers who had graduated from West Point. In Scott's estimation: "but for our graduated cadets the war between the...probably would, have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share, whereas in two campaigns... | |
 | Christopher D. Van Aller - 2001 - 210 pagina’s
...while Robert E. Lee distinguished himself in the decisive use of artillery. As Winfield Scott stated, "But for our graduated cadets, the War between the...probably would, have lasted some four or five years, with . . . more defeats than victories falling to our share."39 In less than a generation, these men... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 2004 - 449 pagina’s
...well-educated graduates in service. Of their value the veteran, General Scott, says : " I give it as my ixed opinion that, but for our graduated cadets, the war...probably would, have lasted some four or five years with, in its first half, iaore defeats than victories falling to our share; whereaSt in less than two... | |
 | Robert Marion La Follette - 1904 - 490 pagina’s
...fortified places and a vast country. Of this General Scott, a non-graduate, the commanding general, said, "I give it as my fixed opinion that, but for our graduated...probably would, have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two... | |
 | 1902 - 270 pagina’s
...Rebellion tested its utility in no uncertain manner, but much earlier General Winfield Scott had said : I give it as my fixed opinion that but for our graduated...probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 1968 - 1224 pagina’s
...trained in the art and science of war is told best in the words of General Winfield Scott who said, "I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated...probably would, have lasted some four or five years * • *". It is also interesting to note that the record of the Civil War shows that the Confederacy... | |
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I give it as my fixed opinion that, but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would, have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share ;... 
