...belong standing armies." — Andrew Jackson. (Extract from his First Message Congress, December, 1829.) "I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the wf between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would, have last some four or five years,...

...graduate, paid a fine tribute to the West Pointers of his command, in a letter written in 1860, in which he said: "I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between Mexico and the United States might, and probably would, have lasted some four or five years, with,...

...graduates trained in the art and science of war is told best in the words of General Winfleld Scott who said, "I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for...probably would, have lasted some four or five years * * *". It is also interesting to note that the record of the Civil War shows that the Confederacy...

...officers, some of whom had spent more than twenty years in the service, had played significant roles. Scott said: "I give it as my fixed opinion that but for...probably would, have lasted some four or five years, within its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share." Many of these junior officers...

...US Congress, Senate, Doc. 98, Report of the Secretary of War. 32nd Cong., 1st sess., 1852. 1-3. 33. "I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated...the war between the United States and Mexico might have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to...

...while Robert E. Lee distinguished himself in the decisive use of artillery. As Winfield Scott stated, "But for our graduated cadets, the War between the...probably would, have lasted some four or five years, with . . . more defeats than victories falling to our share."39 In less than a generation, these men would...

...well-educated graduates in service. Of their value the veteran, General Scott, says : " I give it as my ixed opinion that, but for our graduated cadets, the war...lasted some four or five years with, in its first half, iaore defeats than victories falling to our share; whereaSt in less than two campaigns we conquered...

...carried ten fortified places, and completed the conquest of Mexico and California. General Scott has said : 'I give it as my fixed opinion that, but for...five years, with, in its first half, more defeats •Ibid., vol. xcvii. p. 375-89. ' Wisconsin Law Reports, vol. Ixxxvi. pp. 563, 566. than victories...

...the conduct of operations in the Mexican War. Indeed, Gen. Winfield Scott, himself a nongraduate, has said : I give it as my fixed opinion that but for...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...

...graduates trained in the art and science of war is told best in the words of General Winfield Scott who said, "I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for...probably would, have lasted some four or five years * • *". It is also interesting to note that the record of the Civil War shows that the Confederacy...