It was in store for him to do some of the hardest fighting and greatest generalship that was done during the war.
It was the finest piece of generalship and the most successful of the war.
I do not propose to criticize his generalship or ability as a commander.
His receipts during the last year of his tenure of the Attorney Generalship amounted to 7322l.
He was once more in command during the operations which followed the battle, and his skilfulgeneralship won for him the grade of general of cavalry.
After the fight at Carberry Hill the queen surrendered herself to Kirkcaldy, and his generalship was mainly responsible for her defeat at Langside.
During the same war the king's second son, the same Duke of York who had given so characteristic a sample of Guelph generalship in leading his forces to defeat, gave an equally characteristic specimen of Guelph morality.
The Duke of York, with a generalship worthy of his family, led an army of British and Russian soldiers into a captivity from which they could only be redeemed by the surrender of prisoners taken on the sea by real Englishmen.
Prodigal and irregular as superintendent of Lille, he imported into the comptroller-generalship habits and ideas opposed to all the principles of Louis XVI.
Seemingly it was the result of bad generalship by someone on our side.
But up to the time of our history these advantages had been to some extent neutralised by the ill-success of the governmental generalship and by the brilliant successes of two great Carlist leaders--Tomas Zumalacarregui and Ramon Cabrera.
But of the cautious generalship which draws off in safety and lives to fight another day, Rollo had not a trace.
Indeed most people will think, that so far from its being a rasher action, the occupation of Majuba, bad generalship as it seems, was a wiser move than either the attack on the Nek or the Ingogo fiasco.
They at any rate give no evidence of shaken nerve or unduly excited brain, nor can I see that any action of his with reference to the occupation of Majuba is out of keeping with the details of his generalship upon other occasions.
The skilful generalship of the French marshal elicited of course no encomiums from the English caricaturists.
On the 10th the States passed a resolution to offer him the governor-generalship over all the Provinces.
The inquisitor-generalship was filled by the appointment of Francisco Xavier de Mier y Campillo, Bishop of AlmerÃa, and the vacancies in the Suprema were supplied.
She tried to work out new plays, criticised the generalship occasionally, and fairly 'ate and slept' football during the months of October and November.
The Harvard generalship has been the old Charlie Daly system.
The Duke held this office until the appointment of Mr. Canning to be Prime Minister, when he resigned it, and also the Master-Generalship of the Ordnance.
Of all the territory the British had occupied during three years, the only spot they now held was New York, and even there Washington's superb generalship with his small but active army was giving them constant trouble.
One reason why the victory of Ligny and the drawn battle at Quatre Bras were not decisive was because of a strange lack of generalship and a strange confusion of orders for which Napoleon and Ney are both responsible.
Probably in a wild endeavour to do something which would avert odium from itself by saddling the responsibility on someone else, the Government procured the dismissal of Law from the Controller-Generalship of Finance.
The young Crusader’s generalshipwas distinctly defective; he was a fine fighting man, but a poor commander.
French generalship was certainly not so astute as Boer cunning.
He had his notions of good generalship no less than his shrewd sister-in-law, and he did not make the mistake of pitching his prefatory remarks on a note of hostility.
Just the same, it's a goodgeneralship to avoid risks.
To husband strength, to bide the time, to await the solemn moment for attack, is political generalship, a generalship that is as essential in the Senate as on the battlefield.
Such battles for humanity require good generalship as well as those of cannon, fife and drum.
The splendid generalship of Lincoln, his telling blows gradually disposed of the gallant Hardin, who gracefully declined to be longer considered as a candidate.
The special characteristics of his generalship were imagination, fiery energy, and a tactical resolution which was rare indeed in the 18th century.
The generalship of his new opponent, and the fact that the French army had been largely reinforced, while reinforcements had not been sent from Vienna, forced Prince Eugene to confine himself to a war of observation.
Now, without being a member of a clique, having no possible jealousies, and being free from the smallest animosities, I may inquire was there any generalship shown by any of the allied generals at the Alma?
That is really the most preposterous attempt to vindicate Lord Raglan's generalship that has ever been given to the world.
Being a bold and successful fighter he won his way to a generalship and from this point of vantage killed the Taiko and assumed that title himself.
It was his one great opportunity to distinguish himself and that he did not improve it speaks as poorly for his generalship as it does for his patriotism.
