Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 306
famine, and disease. Missing the rapid successionof brilliant engagements between forces almost equal,and the dramatic storm and swift consummation ofevents which European campaigns have made familiar,there are those who see in him only a slow, sure, andpatient commander, without readiness of… … He evinced no lack of the highest energy and skillwhen he turned back the tide of defeat at Monmouth,or in the combinations which preceded the siege ofYorktown, orin the rapid andmasterly move-ments by which,at a period whenhe was consid-ered utterlyruined, heswooped sud-denly downupon…
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