 | Samuel Storrs Howe, Theodore Sutton Parvin, Frederick Lloyd, Sanford W. Huff, Charles Aldrich, Edgar Rubey Harlan - Iowa - 1895 - 814 pages
...consummate management and bravery, in * Midland Monthly, Des Moines, Iowa, May, 1890, pp. 406-411. the face of an enemy of greatly superior numbers. I never...splendid achievements in military history. Black Hawk concludes his own account of the same encounter in these words : In this skirmish, with fifty braves,... | |
 | Frank Everett Stevens - Black Hawk War, 1832 - 1903 - 454 pages
...military tactics that I ever witnessed — a feat of most consummate management and bravery, in the face of an enemy of greatly superior numbers. I never...splendid achievements in military history." Black Hawk in his book, page 107, states the facts of that retreat pretty much as' Mr. Davis did to Mr. Aldrich,... | |
 | Leonard Fletcher Parker - Poweshiek County (Iowa) - 1911 - 496 pages
...military tactics that I ever witnessed — a feat of most consummate management and bravery, in the face of an enemy of greatly superior numbers. I never...anything that could be compared with it. Had it been done by white men, it would have been immortalized as one of the most splendid achievements in military... | |
 | Nelson Commins Roberts, Samuel W. Moorhead - Lee County (Iowa) - 1914 - 444 pages
...of military tactics that I ever witnessed; a feat of most consummate management and bravery in the face of an enemy of greatly superior numbers. I never...it would have been immortalized as one of the most wonderful achievements in military history." The last battle of the war was fought at the mouth of... | |
 | Clarence Monroe Burton, William Stocking, Gordon K. Miller - Detroit (Mich.) - 1922 - 800 pages
...witnessed; a feat of most consummate management and bravery in the face of an enemy greatly superior in numbers. I never read of anything that could be compared...it would have been immortalized as one of the most wonderful achievements in military history." The last battle of the war was fought on August 2, 1832,... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1923 - 398 pages
...face of an enemy of greatly superior numbers." "Had it been performed by white men," he continued, "it would have been immortalized as one of the most splendid achievements in military history."" This characterization more than confirms the modest claim of Black Hawk, made in writing his biography,... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Library - Illinois - 1923 - 396 pages
...face of an enemy of greatly superior numbers.'' "Had it been performed by white men," he continued, "it would have been immortalized as one of the most splendid achievements in military history."17 This characterization more than confirms the modest claim of Black Hawk, made in writing... | |
 | Milo Milton Quaife - Wisconsin - 1924 - 622 pages
...delighted the heart of that grim warrior: "I never read of anything that could be compared to it," he said. "Had it been performed by white men, it would have...the most splendid achievements in military history." But the successful defense brought little joy to the fugitives, who realized that their race was run.... | |
 | Virgil J. Vogel - History - 1991 - 348 pages
...feat of consummate management and bravery, in the face of an enemy of greatly superior numbers. . . . Had it been performed by white men, it would have...one of the most splendid achievements in military history."46 With many of his ragged and starving people dropping along the way from exhaustion, Black... | |
 | Gary J. Maier - History - 2001 - 172 pages
...high order. Describing the holding action on the part of Black Hawk here, Jefferson Davis later wrote: "Had it been performed by White men, it would have...the most splendid achievements in military history." Finally, the comment has to do with the level of the communication in both constructions, Michelangelo... | |
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Davis] was the most brilliant exhibition of military tactics that I ever witnessed — a feat of most consummate management and bravery, in * Midland Monthly, Des Moines, Iowa, May, 1890, pp. 406-411. the face of an enemy of greatly superior numbers.... 
