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" The truth is that the old army officers have become so in the habit of enjoying their ease, sitting in parlours and on carpeted floors, that most of them have no energy, and are content to jog on in a regular routine without knowing whether they are taking... "
Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War - Página 34
por Richard Bruce Winders - 1997 - 284 páginas
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Chicago Historical Society's Collection

Chicago Historical Society - 1846 - 526 páginas
...Mexico. He left with my direction to look into the subject more fully than he had done. The truth is that the old army officers have become so in the habit of enjoying their ease, sitting in parlours and on carpeted floors, that most of them have no energy, and are content to jog...
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The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency, 1845 to 1849 ..., Volumen2

James Knox Polk - 1910 - 520 páginas
...Mexico. He left with my direction to look into the subject more fully than he had done. The truth is that the old army officers have become so in the habit of enjoying their ease, sitting in parlours and on carpeted floors, that most of them have no energy, and are content to jog...
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James K. Polk, a Political Biography

Eugene Irving McCormac - 1922 - 774 páginas
...or political malice of Gen'l Scott" (ibid., 384-386). «» ' ' The truth is, ' ' he wrote, ' ' that the old army officers have become so in the habit of enjoying their ease, sitting in parlours and on carpeted floors, that most of them have no energy, and are content to jog...
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Papers of the Second Palo Alto Conference

Harriett Denise Joseph, Anthony K. Knopp, Douglas A. Murphy - 1997 - 154 páginas
...disposed to throw every obstacle in the of [his] prosecuting the Mexican War successfully."4 Polk disliked career officers for more than just their politics:...unimaginative. Remarked the president, "the old army officers t-iav become so in the habit of enjoying their ease . . . that most of them have no energy." He wanted...
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