Campaigns of the War of 1812-15, Against Great Britain: Sketched and Criticised; with Brief Biographies of the American Engineers, Volume 55 |
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Page 87 - Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh and consider.
Page 11 - Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples, superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated, that it demands much previous study, and that the possession of it in its most improved and perfect state is always of great moment to the security of a nation.
Page 287 - Of the sailors however, it would be injustice not to speak in the terms which their conduct merits. They were employed as gunners, and not only did they serve their guns with a quickness and precision which astonished their assailants, but they stood till some of them were actually bayoneted, with fuses in their hands: nor was it till their leader was wounded and taken, and they saw themselves deserted on all sides by the soldiers, that they quitted the field.
Page 53 - The functions of the engineers being generally confined to the most elevated branch of military science, they are not to assume, nor are they subject to be ordered on any duty beyond the line of their immediate profession, except by the special order of the President...
Page 218 - ... to meet and beat the enemy if he again appeared. To this order he made no objection, and I relied upon its execution. It was not executed.
Page 150 - The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
Page 11 - States," has organized them so as to produce their full effect ; whether your own experience in the several States has not detected some imperfections in the scheme ; and whether a material feature, in an improvement of it, ought not to be to afford an opportunity for the study of those branches of the military art, which can scarcely ever be attained by practice alone.
Page 100 - With only one third or one fourth of the force destined for that service ; destitute of artillery, of engineers, of men who had ever seen or heard the least of an enemy ; and with but a very inadequate supply of ammunition, — how he ever could have entertained the most distant hope of success, or what right he had to presume to claim it, is to me one of the strangest things in the world.
Page 39 - ... well-instructed subjects in the different branches of artillery and engineering which the public service calls for. The want of such characters is already sensibly felt, and will be increased with the enlargement of our plans of military preparation. The chief engineer, having been instructed to consider the subject and to propose an augmentation which might render the establishment commensurate with the present circumstances of our country, has made the report which I now transmit for the consideration...
Page 287 - ... they wantonly, destroyed the public edifices, having no relation in their structure to operations of war, nor used at the time for military annoyance ; some of these edifices being also costly monuments of taste and of the arts, and others...