 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1864 - 472 pages
...Winfield Scott : " I give it as my fixed opinion that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably-...without the loss of a single battle or skirmish." In depositing at West Point the trophies of our Mexican victories, consisting of tattered flags, a... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 644 pages
...acquired much prominence there. General Scott testified : — " But for our graduated cadets, the war with Mexico might, and probably would, have lasted some four or five years, with more defeats than victories falling to our share, whereas in less than two campaigns we conquered a... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 664 pages
...might, and proba*J" would, have lasted some four or five years, with moro defeats than vic'^•"ies falling to our share, whereas in less than two campaigns we conquered * Si-eat country and a peace, without the loss of a single battle or skirmish." John C. Calhoun, while... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1894 - 692 pages
...June 21, 1860): "I give it as my fixed opinion th-it, but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would,...to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns wo conquered a great country and a peace, without the loss of a single battle or skirmish." It is something... | |
 | Schuyler Hamilton - Flags - 1877 - 60 pages
...June 2I, 1860 : " I give it as my fixed opinion that, but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would,...without the loss of a single battle or skirmish." I quote from Major-General GW Cullum's preface to Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1878 - 978 pages
...and Mexico might, and probably would, have lasted somo four or live years, within its first liait' more defeats than victories falling to our share,...without the loss of a single battle or skirmish." TJie war with Mexico and the United States extended over a period of about two years, and cost the... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1878 - 734 pages
...1800. " I give it," he says, " as my fixed opinion that but for our graduated cadets the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would, have lasted some four or five years, within its first half more defeats than victories falling to our share, whereas in less than two campaigns... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1878 - 614 pages
...1860. "I give it," he says, "as my fixed opinion that but for our graduated cadets the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would, have lasted some four or five years, within its first half more defeats than victories falling to our share, whereas in less than two campaigns... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1879 - 630 pages
...I860. "I give it," he says, "as my fixed opinion that but for our graduated cadets the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would, have lasted some four or five years, within its first half more defeats than victories falling to our share, whereas jn less than two campaigns... | |
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I give it as my fixed opinion that, but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would, have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share ;... 
