 I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes...  The History of North America - 310 psl.redagavo - 1906Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 psl.
...and honorable brother officer." In the same letter, he also informed Hooker, "I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator."57 As Lincoln had feared, Hooker was mauled at Chancellorsville in May 1863 partly because... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - 1997 - 538 psl.
...26, Lincoln formally appointed him head of the Army of the Potomac — a classic official document : "What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. . . . Now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward... | |
 | Dale Carnegie - 2010 - 293 psl.
...a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military... | |
 | Edwin C. Fishel - 1996 - 764 psl.
...Army and the Government needed a dictator. . . . Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship."0 Hooker's estimation of his own abilities was not without foundation. He had made a... | |
 | Walter H. Hebert - 1999 - 396 psl.
...wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...Only those generals, who gain successes, can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 psl.
...Despite these facts, Lincoln needed an aggressive fighter who had some strategic vision. "I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying...both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator," he wrote Hooker on January 26. "Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given... | |
 | Eliot A. Cohen - 2002 - 312 psl.
...great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying...Only those generals who gain successes, can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government... | |
 | George Walsh - 2003 - 502 psl.
...which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a meritorious and honorable brother officer. ... Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command."" Hooker would be Lee's fifth foe since taking command — McClellan, Pope, McClellan again, and now... | |
 | Eugene C. Tidball - 2002 - 594 psl.
...great wrong to his country. "I have heard, in such a way as to believe it," the president went on, "of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not^or this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes,... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - 2001 - 356 psl.
...because of these and other political utterances but was going to entrust him with the command anyway. "What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship," he said, and he went on to urge: "Beware of rashness, but with energy, sleepless vigilance, go forward,... | |
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