But Taylor had no reason to suppose that operations so badly planned, so ineffective and so costly would have that effect; they were wasteful; and they demoralized his own men.
Mejia had been ordered in May to fortify it, but had not been able to do so; and Santa Anna's first thought, on learning that Monterey had capitulated, was to bring Ampudia back to San Luis Potosi with his demoralized soldiers.
The Girl in the Letters has demoralized me," she said.
The Boy was so demoralized that he forgot his name and address; and when a kindly policeman picked him up, and carried him over the way, to the Leonard Street station-house for identification, he felt as if the end of everything had come.
The older children were conscience-stricken at the mummery, and they ran, demoralized and shocked, into the house, leaving The Boy and the kittens behind them.
For they remained absolutely inactive while Kuhn's supporters were rallying and consolidating their scattered and demoralized forces, and they kept the Rumanians from balking the Bolshevist work of preparing another attack.
At the same time they urged that it was not they who had demoralized the army or abolished the death penalty or thrown open the sluice-gates to anarchist floods.
We reached the landing in a still more demoralized condition than the American invaders, but met a warmly hospitable, not hostile, reception.
That was this: the English soldiers were in a demoralized condition of superstitious terror; they had become satisfied that the Maid was in league with Satan.
So Joan was not minded to let the men be demoralized by pillage and riot and carousings; she had the Augustins burned, with all its stores in it, excepting the artillery and ammunition.
An easy forward pass was fumbled by the regulars, who were becoming so demoralized that the men fell all over themselves.
There was no necessity now for tricks to further befuddle the demoralized cadets.
Charge after charge was received only to be broken--and Forrest was soon in full pursuit of the whipped and demoralized columns.
He fell rapidly back to Vicksburg; his army perhaps more worn, broken and demoralized by the desultory attentions of ours, than it would have been by a regular defeat.
Much has been said and much written of the Marylanders in the South; of theirdemoralized condition, their speculative tendencies, and their wild dissipations.
Then the scattered and demoralized army was saved from utter ruin, only by the admirable manner in which Cleburne covered that rout-like retreat, day after day; finally beating back Thomas' advance so heavily that pursuit was abandoned.
The rout was complete and the enemy so demoralizedthat Longstreet--feeling that he could be crushed while panic-struck--ordered Wheeler to intercept his flight.
The loss of their leader was hidden from the men; and they drove the enemy steadily before them, until sunset found his broken and demoralized masses huddled on the river bank, under cover of the gunboats.
The runners became men of mark--many of them men of money; for, while this branch never demoralized like its big rival on the coast, the service of Government was cannily mixed with the service of Mammon.
The battles of the Wilderness were accounted a great victory; Lee was demoralized and would be swept from the path of the conquering hero; Grant had at last really found the "open door!
The compliment was exchanged, by a decisive southern success at Germania Ford; but the resultless fighting dispirited and demoralized the people, while it only harassed and weakened the army.
Captain Hamilton Miggs had found the liquor of the Cock and Cowslip so very much to his taste, in spite of its vitriolic peculiarities recorded in a preceding chapter, that he rejoined his ship in a very shaky and demoralized condition.
He was a man of strong character, however, and though somewhatdemoralized by the sudden shock, he threw away no point in the game which he and his father were playing.
Five days afterward Major Hodson wrote in his diary: "The troops are utterlydemoralized by hard work and hard drink.
To say that for the moment those two soldiers were demoralized would be drawing it very mildly.
Many of the tents were already prostrate, and their demoralized inmates were crawling out from under the ruin.
The Boer authorities, with more magnanimity than wisdom, pardoned the demoralized rank and file, permitted the civilian leaders to go free after a brief imprisonment and the exaction of a fine, and delivered "Dr.
But the intrepid resistance of the garrison, followed by the capture of the battery, had utterly demoralized the Serviles, who scarcely struck a blow in their own defence.
At its conclusion Guardiola withdrew his demoralized forces and fled to Rivas.
The demoralized fugitives returned in straggling parties, some without arms, some in rags, and all crest-fallen and disgraced.
Close upon his heels came the broken and demoralized picket, with the advance guard of Americans under Walker and Valle galloping on their track.
Improving every moment and under a continual fire from the shore, Porter managed to descend something more than half way down the river to Grand Ecore, where he found Banks and his demoralized army.
The demoralized men were rallied at Pleasant Hill, where they were again attacked and routed by Taylor.
By this time the demoralized cavalry had fled, and Cushing, after retaining possession of the village until dusk, leisurely made his way back to the boats.
Men who will fight without shrinking, by day, are often completely demoralized by a night attack.
The worst of all was, I had to ride and tie with him for seventeen miles, and he was so badly demoralized that I had to do all the walking.
Then the "seventy fives" were brought up at a gallop and poured a hail of shell at the demoralized German infantry wading frantically through the water towards the canal.
The reports showed that the French troops were so demoralized that success was not to be hoped for.
Obviously it had not yet entered his thoughts that so daring a step would be taken by a foe whom he pictured as scattered and demoralized by defeat.
The proprietor wuz a demoralized Ablishnist who hed sold likker surreptitiously in Maine, among them Ablishunists, and consekently hed no idea uv the quantity a full grown Kentucky Democrat cood throw hisself outside uv.
Now, if the forced revenue of the Congo State disappeared, it would, at a moderate estimate, take a minimum of a million a year for twenty years to bring the demoralized State back to the normal condition of a tropical colony.
It is not to the absolute discredit of Belgians that such an existence should have demoralized them, and, indeed, there were other nationalities besides Belgians in the ranks of the agents.
Of the merits of the quarrel we have nothing to say, but we feel assured that the troops of Kaiser William would feel little complimented at being told that their splendid victories were gained over a demoralized and cowardly nation.
It is hardly just, however, to put all the folly, all the extravagance, and all the sin of our demoralized belles and beauty to the credit of France; poor France has enough of her own to bear.
But the death of Michael Angelo appeared to have completely demoralized the architects who survived.
The fact is, the troops are utterly demoralized by hard work and hard drink, I grieve to say.
I am really done and demoralized with my interminable surgical (for it comes to that) ordeal.
Johnston's army was demoralized by constant defeat and would hardly have made an offensive movement, even if they could have been induced to remain on duty.
The let-alone policy had demoralized this force so that probably but little more than one-half of it was ever present in garrison at any one time.
Our demoralized troops, however, never halted until they got safe inside of them.
Like the drug fiend whose brain has been stupefied, her brain became completely demoralized by constant mental dissipation.
