"Military operation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but a military operation, rather a feat of arms like any other. So there you are, citizen, and now you are as well informed on this ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere
... any time been thrown against them. This declaration appears to have been well received, and the numbers that came in to him were very considerable; but his means of arming them were limited, nor had he much confidence, for the purpose of any important military operation, in men unused to discipline, and wholly unacquainted with the art of war. Without examining the question whether or not Monmouth, from his professional prejudices, carried, as some have alleged he did, his diffidence ...
— A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second • Charles James Fox |
