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over the approaches to the capital, and has thus been forced to forego more than one opportunity for promising enterprise.
It is for us, my countrymen, to show by our bearing under reverses, how wretched has been the self-deception of those who have believed us less able to endure misfortune with fortitude than to encounter danger with courage.
We have now entered upon a new phase of the struggle.
Relieved from the necessity of guarding a particular point, our army will be free to move from point to point, to strike the enemy in detail far from his base.
Let us but will it, and we are free.
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