Beacon Lights of History: New hall of fame. Premier personalitiesWm. H. Wise, 1924 |
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... command in World War Commanded 9th army at Battle of the Marne " Assistant to the Commander - in - Chief " The Battle of the Somme • Plans for the future conduct of the war Stiffened Italian resistance on Piave River Supreme war council ...
... command in World War Commanded 9th army at Battle of the Marne " Assistant to the Commander - in - Chief " The Battle of the Somme • Plans for the future conduct of the war Stiffened Italian resistance on Piave River Supreme war council ...
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... command ; he brought about the unity of command for lack of which so many gallant efforts had been wasted and for the first time gave the Allied peoples the great stimulus of a single central hero to worship , a Foch . The diplomats ...
... command ; he brought about the unity of command for lack of which so many gallant efforts had been wasted and for the first time gave the Allied peoples the great stimulus of a single central hero to worship , a Foch . The diplomats ...
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... command of the regiment . All day , waiting for orders that did not come , he lay with his men under the galling fire of Spanish guns . One messenger after another whom he sent for orders was killed . At last , late in the afternoon ...
... command of the regiment . All day , waiting for orders that did not come , he lay with his men under the galling fire of Spanish guns . One messenger after another whom he sent for orders was killed . At last , late in the afternoon ...
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... command , to four years of dull inaction which he prophesied would leave him at their conclusion , at best , a professor of history in a second - rate college until the end of his days . IV An assassin's bullet , removing his chief from ...
... command , to four years of dull inaction which he prophesied would leave him at their conclusion , at best , a professor of history in a second - rate college until the end of his days . IV An assassin's bullet , removing his chief from ...
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... command . But his most extrav- agant dreams could scarcely have hinted at the mag- nitude of the forces which he would later have at his disposal , forces which by comparison dwarfed Napoleon's armies into significance . By the time he ...
... command . But his most extrav- agant dreams could scarcely have hinted at the mag- nitude of the forces which he would later have at his disposal , forces which by comparison dwarfed Napoleon's armies into significance . By the time he ...
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Page 183 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 19 - John Brown's body lies amouldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on.
Page 19 - mongst the rest they placed the arts divine. But this weak knot they will full soon untie, The Greeks did nought, but play the fools and lie. Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are Men have precedency and still excel, It is but vain unjustly to wage war; Men can do best, and women know it well.
Page 19 - I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong; For such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.
Page 153 - While we were standing about discussing this last flight, a sudden strong gust of wind struck the machine and began to turn it over. Everybody made a rush for it.
Page 247 - The result of that struggle we leave in God's hand. Perhaps it is His will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation, yea, even through the valley of the shadow of death, to a better future and a brighter day.
Page 153 - After long arguments, we often found ourselves in the ludicrous position of each having been converted to the other's side, with no more agreement than when the discussion began. It was not till several months had passed, and every phase of the problem had been thrashed over and over, that the various reactions began to untangle themselves.
Page 153 - This flight lasted only 12 seconds but it was nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own •power into the air in full flight' had sailed forward without reduction of speed and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started.
Page 153 - As a result, the machine would rise suddenly to about ten feet and then as suddenly dart for the ground. A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
Page 19 - So with a sudden effort I sprang out of bed and found in the dimness an old stump of a pen which I remembered to have used the day before. I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper.