Tactic

Examples

• Here Johnston made a stand until the 17th, when Sherman's old tactics prevailed again and the final movement toward Atlanta began. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• While I was at West Point the tactics used in the army had been Scott's and the musket the flint lock. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I came near it in French, artillery, infantry and cavalry tactics, and conduct. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The tactics of the battlefield are of no use when the battle is won. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He took no pains to conceal his calculations and tactics. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Among the technical w ritings of Varro besides the book on agriculture, which is extant, are numbered works on law, mensuration, and naval tactics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Under the old tactics almost every change in the order of march was preceded by a halt, then came the change, and then the forward march. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Phil bears down upon them according to his usual tactics. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I do not believe that the officers of the regiment ever discovered that I had never studied the tactics that I used. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The direct actionists are a warning to the Socialist Party that its tactics and its program are not adequate to domesticating the deepest unrest of labor. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For ten years Fabian tactics prevailed in Italy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Miss Ophelia was old, and skilled in the tactics of nursing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I got a copy of tactics and studied one lesson, intending to confine the exercise of the first day to the commands I had thus learned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• To Sherman I told the story of the assault at Fort Donelson, and said that the same tactics would win at Shiloh. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I see you don't yet like my tactics. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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