Tecumseh
Tecumseh
Tecumseh /tᵻˈkʌmsə, tᵻˈkʌmsi/ tə-KUM-sə, tə-KUM-seewas a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacywhich opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and became an ally of Britain in the War of 1812...
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christmas cities civil-war
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
thanksgiving thank-you years
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
death military war
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
fields batteries artillery
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
death morning couple
I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
determination powerful war
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.
native-american-indian indian-reservations indian
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
lions may fleas
You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
latin voice people
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
tired mean gun
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
expectations way resistance
The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
army two able
An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
robbing bartering trading
...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
army civil-war mules
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.