 | Emory Upton - 1904 - 532 str.
...in a reply as modest as it was true, " I come as a volunteer to learn from a soldier of experience." Without pausing to discover the secret of the defense...patriotism was the sole qualification for a soldier's calling—a fallacy which paralyzed the military legislation of the Revolution and constantly jeopardized... | |
 | Frederic Louis Huidekoper - 1915 - 806 str.
...neither our statesmen nor our historians have ever been able to appreciate," and he goes on to say that " without pausing to discover the secret of the defense...the militia were invincible and that patriotism was tbe sole qualification for a soldier's calling — a fallacy which paralyzed the military legislation... | |
 | Emory Upton, United States. War Department - 1917 - 546 str.
...in a reply as modest as it was true, " I come as a volunteer to learn from a soldier of experience." Without pausing to discover the secret of the defense...too confidently upon raw and undisciplined levies. CONTTNENTAL ARMY. Soon after the troops began to arrive in the neighborhood of Boston it became evident... | |
 | Harold Connett Washburn - 1917 - 52 str.
...Upton then arrives at the inevitable conclusion: Without pausing to discover the secret of the defence of Bunker Hill, the mistaken conviction seized the...too confidently upon raw and undisciplined levies. Thus, at Bunker Hill, started the legend that untrained Americans are superior to trained foreigners.... | |
 | Paul Stanley Bond, Enoch Barton Garey, Olin Oglesby Ellis, Thomas Leroy McMurray - 1921 - 468 str.
...by courtesy recognized a commander, fought, on the I7th of June, 1775, the battle of Bunker Hill. " Without pausing to discover the secret of the defense...qualification for a soldier's calling — a fallacy which paralized the military legislation of the Revolution by inducing the political leaders of the time... | |
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Without pausing to discover the secret of the defense of Bunker Hill, the mistaken conviction seized the public mind that the militia were invincible and that patriotism was the sole qualification for a soldier's calling — a fallacy which paralyzed... 