The Quarterly Review, Volumen184William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1896 |
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... British Army has produced . On the other hand , he was a keen soldier , whose record in the field , both as a young Staff - officer and as a General of Division , clearly showed that he possessed in a marked degree the qualities of a ...
... British Army has produced . On the other hand , he was a keen soldier , whose record in the field , both as a young Staff - officer and as a General of Division , clearly showed that he possessed in a marked degree the qualities of a ...
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... British Army to - day differs widely from that of forty - five years ago , and no one has done more than Hamley to bring about the change . ' I have no literary friend here , ' he wrote , ' with whom to discuss my projects ' ; and while ...
... British Army to - day differs widely from that of forty - five years ago , and no one has done more than Hamley to bring about the change . ' I have no literary friend here , ' he wrote , ' with whom to discuss my projects ' ; and while ...
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... British officer as a scholar . When not vicious or merely foppish , he was usually presented as a chivalrous person of dull intellect . Hamley , however , in defence of his cloth , gives us a captain of Dragoons who is able to quote ...
... British officer as a scholar . When not vicious or merely foppish , he was usually presented as a chivalrous person of dull intellect . Hamley , however , in defence of his cloth , gives us a captain of Dragoons who is able to quote ...
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... British Army , the science of war was to find in Hamley a powerful exponent . Jusqu'à ces dernières années , pas un national n'avait écrit ex professo sur les parties savantes de la guerre . ' Such was the just comment of General Foy in ...
... British Army , the science of war was to find in Hamley a powerful exponent . Jusqu'à ces dernières années , pas un national n'avait écrit ex professo sur les parties savantes de la guerre . ' Such was the just comment of General Foy in ...
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... British Army was in- tellectually far behind those of France , Prussia , or Austria . It is Hamley's greatest distinction to have redressed the unequal balance and to have ushered in the dawn of a new era . Quartered at Leith Fort ...
... British Army was in- tellectually far behind those of France , Prussia , or Austria . It is Hamley's greatest distinction to have redressed the unequal balance and to have ushered in the dawn of a new era . Quartered at Leith Fort ...
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