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Updated: May 13, 2025
Two years ago he had himself considered a raid upon the place, and he had actually made a survey of it in circumstances which he was presently to disclose. The Baron's proposal was one to be expected from a commander whose knowledge of Cartagena was only such as might be derived from maps. Geographically and strategically considered, it is a curious place.
After that came an orange or two contributed by some one whose position was strategically close to the fruit-vender's cart and at last a sounder missile struck and shivered the wind-shield. For just a moment the situation had a precarious seeming for the reviled young master of finance, and Paul's delicate face blanched a little.
The two categories of operation differ radically in conception and purpose, and strategically they are on wholly different planes.
In the distance, a plume of dust was billowing off the road. Mail truck. Must be time for breakfast. About time I ate something. Tired legs maneuvered Justin's frame to the rocking chair, where both of his strong, chapped hands gripped the chair arms as he strategically placed his rear over the seat, then allowed gravity to do its work.
Some few pieces ran down to the river, but it was apparent that Crane & Keith were looking to the future buying timber when it was at its lowest, and preparing to hold for a better day. They had bought strategically.
Strategically the integrity of Korea was for Japan very much what the integrity of the Low Countries was for us, but in the case of the Low Countries, since they were incapable of isolation, our power of direct action was always comparatively weak.
Of the Boers we actually buried over a hundred on the ridge, and their total casualties must have been considerably in excess of ours. The action was strategically well conceived; all that Lord Roberts could do for complete success had been done; but tactically it was a poor affair, considering his enormous preponderance in men and guns.
The defeated ladies immediately began to "perform" that is, to ask the universe at large whether anyone ever heard the like of that! But the stewards strategically slipped away, and the injured innocents had no resource left but to ride haughtily round the ring, glaring defiance at the spectators.
Had anyone done so, and caught the expression on his face, that man might have trembled for an explosion which should have blown the entire Grand Babylon into the Thames. Jules retired strategically to a corner. He had fired; it was the antagonist's turn.
It is a matter of history how six months later the whole Italian line fell back, how it abandoned successive positions upon rivers, and how it stuck upon this stream which was said by military critics to be strategically almost untenable.
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