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Wellesley, indeed, could not estimate beforehand the vast numerical superiority of the French while the rest of Europe was at peace, or the impotent vacillations of Spanish juntas, or the "mulish obstinacy" of Spanish generals, which so often wrecked his plans and spoiled his victories.
It was not until August that the first was launched, and for a sphere of action Pétain reverted once more to Verdun. The victories of October and December 1916 were commonly represented as having recovered all that the Germans had won in the spring of that year; in fact they were confined to the right bank of the Meuse.
Over yourself?" "No, indeed victories over one's self give us the comfort of a good conscience, but they do not make us gay as I am." "Then tell me " "No-no! I can not tell you yet. I must be silent two days more," said Jacqueline, throwing herself into her mother's arms. Madame de Nailles asked no more questions, but she looked at her stepdaughter with an air of great surprise.
The year after that Nelson occupied it with eight thousand English troops, and the following year the French reoccupied it and sacked the churches and imposed another fine nearly as great as the first. After the Napoleonic victories in the Italian wars, they seem to have come back again and fined the city two million francs more.
Some said we ought to send out the light-horse, to pick up the prisoners. But no one paid any attention to them, the Emperor knew what he was doing. But I remember that everybody was astonished notwithstanding, because it is the custom to profit by victories. The veterans had never seen anything like it.
Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it; and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories."
But while the victories were once going forward in the playground, the defeats or disasters were once going forward in some other place, presumably. And this was surely the place that was not a playground, the place where the future wives of the football players were sitting still while their future husbands were playing football.
There is evidence that many of the primitive narratives now found in the opening chapters of Genesis were also once current in poetical form. In some cases the poetic structure has been preserved. From the quotations which we have from them it is clear that they consisted of collections of songs, recounting the exploits of Israel's heroes and the signal victories of the race.
There were three objections to the election of Albert, whose recent victories and great abilities entitled him in Philip's opinion to the crown.
His generalship improved as the war continued. However, his defeats in the field were more numerous than his victories; and he had to share the laurels of his great triumph at Yorktown, with the French. If Washington had his shortcomings as a tactician, he nevertheless performed superbly under the most difficult conditions.
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