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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 1 1 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Chapter 5: of different mixed operations, which participate at the same time of strategy and.of tactics. (search)
us that Wellington retreated from Quatre-Bras upon Waterloo. Finally, it was what I proposed to do before the attack of Dresden, when we had been in formed of the arrival of Napoleon. I represented the necesssity of a march upon Dippodiswalde for choosing an advantageous field of battle, this idea was confounded with a retreat, and a chivalrous point of honor prevented a retrograde movement without fighting, which would neverthe less have avoided the catastrophe of the following day, (26th Aug., 1813.) You retire also without being defeated in order to fly to a point menaced by the enemy, whether upon the flanks, or upon the line of retreat. When you march far from your depots, in an exhausted country, you may be obliged to decamp in order to draw near to your magazines. Finally, you retire by compulsion after a lost battle, or at the end of an unsuccessful enterprise. These different causes are not the only ones which modify the combina tions of retreats, they vary accordin
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
Massachusetts) m. Lucy Smith, of Reading, in 1774, who d. Sept. 26, 1791, aged 38. He died March 1, 1825. Their children were:--  24-33Lucy, b. June 16, 1775; m. Rev. O'Kill Stuart.  34Alexander S., b. Oct. 19, 1781; killed by explosion of a steamboat, 1836.  35John, b. May 20, 1783; fell at the battle of Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813. 21-30Thomas Brooks m., 1st, Anna Hall, Feb. 27, 1755, who d. Aug. 28, 1757; 2d, Mercy Tufts, Dec. 29, 1762. He died Mar. 7, 1799. His second wife died Aug. 26, 1813, aged 71. His children were, by first wife,--  30-36Nancy, b. Apr. 6, 1757; m. Dr. Stevens. By his second:--  37Mercy, b. Sept. 3, 1763; m. Cotton Tufts, of Weymouth.  38Jonathan, b. Oct. 25, 1765; d. Mar. 18, 1847.  39Samuel, d. young.  40Samuel, b. Oct. 23, 1768; lost at sea.  41Isaac, d. young.  42William, d. young.  43Simon, b. Sept. 2, 1772; d. 1805.  44Lucy, d. young.  45Abigail, d. young.  46Isaac. b. June 3, 1776; d. Oct. 2, 1819.  47William S., b. Mar. 5,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cabell, James Laurence 1813- (search)
Cabell, James Laurence 1813- Sanitarian; born in Nelson county, Va., Aug. 26, 1813; graduated at the University of Virginia in 1833; studied medicine in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Paris; and became Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the University of Virginia. He was in charge of the Confederate military hospitals during the Civil War. When yellow fever broke out at Memphis he was appointed chairman of the National Sanitary Conference, and devised the plan which checked the spread of the epidemic. From 1879 till the time of his death, which occurred in Overton, Va., Aug. 13, 1889, he was president of the National Board of Health.