After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.

It was the only sizable assault upon infantry and artillery behind breastworks successfully made by either side during the Atlanta campaign.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

Sherman felt that his own part in the campaign was skillful and well executed but that the slowness of a part of his army robbed him of the larger fruits of victory.

Actually the Atlanta campaign was a military failure.

But, so far as its territorial objectives were concerned, the campaign was successful.

Within the narrow frame of military tactics, too, the experts agree that the campaign was brilliant.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Sherman proved that a railway base could be movable and the most brilliant feature of the Atlanta campaign was the rapid repair of the tracks.

Its climactic role was to pursue and demoralize a defeated enemy but this chance never came in the Atlanta campaign.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

Heat during the Atlanta campaign, coupled with unsuitable clothing, caused individual irritation that was compounded by a lack of opportunity to bathe and shift into clean clothing.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

During his aggressive campaign to win his present position, Mr. Kennedy was vitriolic about this country's `` prestige '' abroad.

The contention needs to be formulated with much greater precision than it ever was during the campaign, but once that has been done, I fail to see how any serious student of world affairs can quarrel with it.

But contrary to what was implied during the campaign, prestige is surely not important for its own sake.

The campaign leading to the election was not so quiet, however.

Sandman, state campaign chairman for Jones, was addressing a meeting in the Military Park Hotel, Newark, of Essex County leaders and campaign managers for Jones.

During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

In France, an " Antibiotics are not automatic " government campaign started in 2002 and led to a marked reduction of unnecessary antibacterial prescriptions, especially in children.

This campaign marked the apogee of Byzantine expansion.

He headed the SDP campaign of 2003, which led to victory for the SDP ; however, the Center Party gained more seats, which marked the end for the succession of the cabinets of the SDP and the National Coalition Party.

This marked the end of Jingnan campaign.

When Spartans died, marked headstones would only be granted to soldiers who died in combat during a victorious campaign or women who died either in service of a divine office or in childbirth.

The 1992 campaign also marked the entry of Ralph Nader into presidential politics as a candidate.

The campaign was marked by an impressive amount of mudslinging.

His co-operation was marked by the utmost loyalty, and I never had anything but praise for his work, which, indeed, was invaluable throughout the campaign.

After the March 1962 Evian agreements, which granted independence to Algeria and marked the beginning of the exodus of the pieds-noirs ( Jewish Algerians ), the OAS tried by a campaign of assassinations and bombings to stop the on-going political process.

Napoleon ’ s first Italy campaign marked the end of the secular republic which, by the Emperor's will, was transformed into Ligurian Republic, according to the model of the French Republic.

Davis was re-elected in the November 2002 general election following a long and bitter campaign against Simon, marked by accusations of ethical lapses on both sides and widespread voter apathy.

The election was marked by massive violence, vote-buying, and fraud on Marcos ' part, and Marcos used $ 56 million from the Philippines ' treasury to fund his campaign.

Tsar Ivan IV marked every victory of the Russo-Kazan War by erecting a wooden memorial church next to the walls of Trinity Church ; by the end of his Astrakhan campaign, it was shrouded within a cluster of seven wooden churches.

This French Revolutionary Wars engagement marked a turning point in the campaign, which had previously seen French successes.

His command was marked by relentless pressure of the enemy and unalterable determination to conduct the campaign without interference from Paris.

The global campaign to ban landmines marked IPPNW ’ s first major entry into the non-nuclear arena.

Australia sent Hercules and Orion aircraft to assist in the Afghanistan campaign — but also Boeing 707 tankers, which had not been committed to the Gulf War, despite a marked Coalition shortage of probe / drogue capable tanker aircraft.

The Battle of Villers-Bocage has proved a contentious subject among students of the campaign because the British withdrawal marked the end of the post D-Day " scramble for ground " and the start of a grinding attritional battle for Caen.

This, the most violent among the numerous such attacks in 1975, cost over 100 lives and marked the end of the ERP's violent campaign.

In its first season, it played host to an unspectacular league campaign ; but victory in the 2006 U. S. Open Cup marked a continuation of the club's successes and promise for the future.

The announcement made Obama the first United States president to publicly declare his support of same-sex marriage while in office, and marked a departure from his previous stance on the issue, although Obama had previously made comments in support of same-sex marriage as early as the 1990s during his campaign for the Illinois Senate.

The 1928 campaign marked the first of six consecutive campaigns of Thomas running as the Presidential nominee of the Socialist Party.

USU has grown extensively in the 21st century, which is marked by a $ 400 million fundraising campaign for the University and record levels of enrollment.

The campaign was marked by numerous blunders by Dukakis, including most famously a campaign ad featuring Dukakis in an M1 Abrams tank.