 Tactic, movements, and manoeuvre, are as unknown to him as to the lowest of his troops. All idea of regularity, system, or the common routine of an army, or even a regiment, he is totally unacquainted with. Hence arise all the disasters he meets, the...  Roraima and British Guiana: With a Glance at Bermuda, the West Indies, and ... - Page 293by John Whetham Boddam-Whetham - 1879 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1819 - 754 pages
...that any one of them would liave disgraced a corporal's guard. " Tactic, movements, and mano?uvre, are as unknown to him as to the lowest of his troops....a regiment, he is totally unacquainted with. Hence arise all the disasters he meets, the defeats he suffers, and liis constant obligations to retreat... | |
 | Gustavus Hippisley - 1819 - 694 pages
...declaring, that any one of them would have disgraced a corporal's guard. Tactic, movements, and manoeuvre, are as unknown to him as to the lowest of his troops....a regiment, he is totally unacquainted with. Hence arise all the disasters he meets, the defeats he suffers, and his constant obligations to retreat whenever... | |
 | J. H. Robinson (surgeon.) - 1822 - 442 pages
...that any one of them would have disgraced a corporal's guard^ — Tactics, movement, and manreuvre, are as unknown to him as to the lowest of his troops....a regiment, he is totally unacquainted with. Hence arise all the disasters he meets, the defeats he suffers, and his constant obligations to retreat whenever... | |
 | Henri La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein - 1829 - 478 pages
...assertion, and bear me out in declaring that any one of them would have disgraced a corporal's guard. '' Tactics, movements and manoeuvres, are as unknown...of regularity, system, or the common routine of an. armv, or even a regiment, he is totally unacquainted with. Hence arise all the disasters he meets,... | |
 | Henri La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein - 1830 - 324 pages
...assertion, and bear me out in declaring that any one of them would have disgraced a corporal's guard. " Tactics, movements, and manoeuvres, are as unknown...army, or even a regiment, he is totally unacquainted VOL. II. M with. Hence arise all the disasters he meets, the defeats he suffers, and his constant obligations... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - 1910 - 512 pages
...abilities for a general, and especially for a commander-in-chief. . . . Tactics, movements and manoeuvre are as unknown to him as to the lowest of his troops....a regiment, he is totally unacquainted with. Hence arise all the disasters he. meets, the defeats he suffers and his constant obligations to retreat whenever... | |
 | Christon I. Archer - 2000 - 352 pages
...the Liberator's lack of military abilities.48 "Tactics, movements, and manoeuvre," wrote Hippisley, "are as unknown to him as to the lowest of his troops....army, or even a regiment, he is totally unacquainted with."49 Another English officer had told Hippisley after the battle of Ortiz that an inferior number... | |
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