...that any one of them would liave disgraced a corporal's guard. " Tactic, movements, and mano?uvre, are as unknown to him as to the lowest of his troops....the disasters he meets, the defeats he suffers, and liis constant obligations to retreat whenever opposed to the foe. The victory which he gains to-day,...

...that any one of them would have disgraced a corporal's guard. '' Tactics, movements and manoeuvres, are as unknown to him as to the lowest of his troops....of regularity, system, or the common routine of an. armv, or even a regiment, he is totally unacquainted with. Hence arise all the disasters he meets,...

...that any one of them would have disgraced a corporal's guard. " Tactics, movements, and manoeuvres, are as unknown to him as to the lowest of his troops....army, or even a regiment, he is totally unacquainted VOL. II. M with. Hence arise all the disasters he meets, the defeats he suffers, and his constant obligations...

...abilities for a general, and especially for a commander-in-chief. . . . Tactics, movements, and manoeuvres are as unknown to him as to the lowest of his troops....a regiment, he is totally unacquainted with. Hence arises all the disasters he meets, the defeats he suffers, and his constant obligations to retreat...

...abilities for a general, and especially for a commander-in-chief. . . . Tactics, movements and manoeuvre are as unknown to him as to the lowest of his troops....victory, which he gains to-day, however dearly purchased . . . is lost to-morrow by some failure or palpable neglect on his part. Thus it is that Paez was heard...

...the Liberator's lack of military abilities.48 "Tactics, movements, and manoeuvre," wrote Hippisley, "are as unknown to him as to the lowest of his troops....army, or even a regiment, he is totally unacquainted with."49 Another English officer had told Hippisley after the battle of Ortiz that an inferior number...