From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

But his greatest achievement, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his colleagues and teachers, was his amazing ability to produce literary Latin pieces, and he was often called on to do so.

The Congo, in whose cause he died, was the scene of one of his greatest triumphs.

What I mean is, he was a Pole and the greatest soldier in the Ulanys.

I must know that that was my greatest weakness underlined three times.

During his presidency, the company's physical plant was enormously expanded, and the length and breadth of the Brown & Sharpe machine tool line became the greatest in the world.

Now when Henri was just 12 he was only 4' 10'' '' tall and weighed an astounding 72 pounds, and his greatest desire was to pack on some weight.

Artur Schnabel was one of the greatest Schubert-Beethoven-Mozart players of all time, and any commentary of his on this repertory is valuable.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.

The greatest source of trouble was rain which had repeatedly flowed from openings above, soaking the surface and leaving streaks of dissolved lime, very conspicuous even after cleaning, particularly in the `` Landing of Columbus '', `` Oglethorpe and the Indians '', and `` Yorktown ''.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

A $25 billion advertising budget in an $800 billion economy was envisioned for the 1970s here Tuesday by Peter G. Peterson, head of one of the world's greatest camera firms, in a key address before the American Marketing Assn..

In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

Citizen Kane was voted the greatest American film twice.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

The present church was built in the 1700s and the graveyard contains memorials to the victims of two of Achill's greatest tragedies, the Kirchintilloch Fire ( 1937 ) and the Clew Bay Drowning ( 1894 ).

This diagram shows why white 20 was a blunder ; if it had been next to black 19 ( at the position of move 32 in this diagram ) then black 31 would not be a threat and so the forcing sequence would fail.

It was thought that the surface at The Oval would favour pacemen, but Australia's selection proved to be a blunder as England's spinners took them to the only win of the series, allowing them to regain the Ashes.

It is true that Yamamoto believed that Japan could not win a protracted war with the United States, and moreover seems to have believed that the Pearl Harbor attack had become a blunder — even though he was the person who came up with the idea of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Einstein later referred to his failure to predict the expansion of the universe from theory, before it was proven by observation of the cosmological red shift, as the " biggest blunder " of his life.

Several members of the SED Politbüro realized this was a serious blunder and made plans to get rid of him.

Ian Howard argued that Emma not being involved in a major political manoeuvre would be " out of character for her " and the Encomium was probably trying to mask her responsibility for a blunder.

It was an institutional blunder that Benny Green described as being, in retrospect, " comical ," " fatuous ," and " a parody.

The move, however, was a strategic blunder, as it drew the ire of many warlords across the land, including Yuan Shu's own subordinate Sun Ce, who had advised Yuan Shu not to make such a move.

With manipulative coaching, the aunts encouraged the Dauphine to refuse to acknowledge the favourite, which was considered by some to be a political blunder.

The previous biggest blunder was the airing of A Charlie Brown Christmas in December 2006 with several acts in the wrong order.

A major theme of Irving's writings since the 1980s was his belief that it had been a great blunder on the part of Britain to declare war on Germany in 1939, and that ever since then and as a result of that decision, Britain had slipped into an unstoppable decline.

" Though the Kaiser was complimentary, Friedrich von Holstein described Chamberlain's speech as a " blunder " and the Times attacked Chamberlain for using the term " alliance " without inhibition.

However, in game five, Kramnik made what has been described as the worst blunder of his career ( a blunder that pales in comparison to his loss against Deep Fritz 10 in 2006 ), losing a knight in a position which was probably drawn.

After the campaign, just before General Sherman began his operations against Atlanta, Sherman said of the Red River campaign that it was " One damn blunder from beginning to end.

Wellington had planned to retreat if outflanked, but he was watching warily to see if Marmont would make a blunder.

Melas also committed a serious tactical blunder, detaching Generalmajor ( GM ) Nimptsch's brigade of 2, 300 hussars and two artillery batteries back over the Bormida bridge to block the corps of General Louis Gabriel Suchet, which was mistakenly reported around 9 am from Acqui Terme to be approaching Alessandria from the south.

Another blunder was the botched construction of the PacifiCat BC Ferries, which would later become part of the FastCat Fiasco ; the project, designed to speed transportation between Vancouver and Nanaimo, was plagued by cost over-runs and poor technical decisions.

In the 1912 World Series, Speaker led the Red Sox to their second World Series title over John McGraw's New York Giants, with the Red Sox winning the eighth and final game ( game two was called on account of darkness and ended in a tie ) after Fred Snodgrass's error — dropping an easy fly ball that would have been the first out — and Fred Merkle's blunder — failing to go after a Speaker pop foul that would have been the second out, after which Speaker promptly singled home the tying run — allowed the Red Sox to tie and win the game in the bottom of the tenth inning.

In an even greater blunder he joined the Pretender, was made an earl, and took charge of foreign affairs in the Stuart court.

The first blunder of the Hats was the hasty and ill-advised war with Russia.

However, in the second debate on foreign policy, Ford made what was widely viewed as a major blunder when he said " There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.

Historian James Cowan described the Moturoa expedition as " Whitmore's one great blunder ", but strong criticisms of Whitmore's strategy were rejected by Belich, who said the commander's one mistake was to underestimate the Moturoa deceptively strong defences.

The transition from donder to blunder is thought by some to be deliberate ; the term blunder was originally used in a transitive sense, synonymous with to confuse, and this is thought to describe the stunningly loud report of the large bore, short barreled blunderbuss.