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"To that of Marshal Bugeaud, Governor-General of Algeria." "Ah!" "Who has indulged him with an appointment in every forlorn hope!" "Excellent!" cried the Count. "What more could a man resolved to be a military immortal desire? Immortality the goal two paths conduct to it each sure death life! the former the shorter, and, perhaps, the surer! But there is one name I never see in the war dispatches.
Having, with great labour, transported the few remaining military stores and baggage over the Delaware, he determined to remain as long as possible on the northern banks of that river.
Spiritually they were thus lifted at least to the level of the rest of Western Europe, but politically they remained unincorporated, the most feudal and military nation of the West. The growth of nations was, on the political side, the main achievement of the Middle Ages.
The Biblical expression 'hosts of heaven' for the starry universe admirably reflects the conception held by the Babylonian astrologers. Moon, planets and stars constituted an army in constant activity, executing military manoeuvres which were the result of deliberation and which had in view a fixed purpose.
The sons of the old nobility are appointed as officers; they learn nothing, know nothing of military tactics they know how to die bravely, and that is all. The battle of St. Jacinta, which decided the separation of Texas, has been greatly cried up by the Texans; the fact is, it was no battle at all.
First came the foot grenadiers and chasseurs of the Imperial Guard: behind the central group marched other squadrons and battalions of these veterans, already famed as the doughtiest fighters of their age. In their midst came the mind of this military machine Napoleon, accompanied by three Marshals and a brilliant staff.
From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a half hours of each forenoon, floats or droops, in breeze or calm, the banner of the republic; but with the thirteen stripes turned vertically, instead of horizontally, and thus indicating that a civil, and not a military, post of Uncle Sam's government is here established.
By common consent of friend and foe, he was considered the ablest civil and military leader that had appeared in Ireland during the reigns of the Stuart kings.
"You switched him on to that subject on purpose, and by means of something uncommon like a lie." "A little artifice! I knew it would interest you, and it's quite one of his hobbies. I don't know much about his past life, but I think he must have had something to do with military tailoring. A designer at the War Office, perhaps." Beaumaroy gave a low laugh, rather mocking and malicious.
Of the actual force in service under the present military establishment, the posts at which it is stationed, and the condition of each post, a report from the Secretary of War which is now communicated will give a distinct idea.
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