Excerpt from Ulysses S. Grant: Address I shall not give a catalogue of battles. Let others better versed in military lore discuss details of strategy for which Grant had himself but little use. War as a game bad'no attractions for him. His meagre library had no military books. He studied tactics only for the task in hand. I never maneuver, he once said to Meade; and, to another officer, The art of war is Simple enough. Find out where your enemy is! Get at him as soon as you can Strike at him as hard as you can, and keep ...
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Excerpt from Ulysses S. Grant: Address I shall not give a catalogue of battles. Let others better versed in military lore discuss details of strategy for which Grant had himself but little use. War as a game bad'no attractions for him. His meagre library had no military books. He studied tactics only for the task in hand. I never maneuver, he once said to Meade; and, to another officer, The art of war is Simple enough. Find out where your enemy is! Get at him as soon as you can Strike at him as hard as you can, and keep moving on! Grant never was concerned about the opposition, considered only what he had to do himself, assumed the forces of the enemy would be as frightened as his own. I am a smarter man than Grant, said Sherman. I know a great deal more about war and abouteverything else than he does but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. I am always worrying about what the enemy is going to do. Grant never gives a damn! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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