 | Friedrich Kapp - 1859 - 734 Seiten
...schools and manufactories will be the best means for providing for our security in future ; and that a system of this nature will make us more respectable with the powers of Europe than if we should keep fifty thousand men in pay."* In his letter of the 16th of April, 1783, transmitting his... | |
 | 1930 - 212 Seiten
...military schools & manufactories will be the best means of providing for our security in future and that a System of this nature will make us more respectable...the powers of Europe than if we keep up an Army of fifty thousand men. With the greatest respect. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellencies Most... | |
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... Act of 1792 made no provision for the maintenance of a reservoir of trained youth. The nation paid the price in the disasters of the War of 1812. Indeed we might have been spared the second war with Britain if the young men of the day had been trained... 