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.

Campaign buses are often specially decorated for a political campaign or other social awareness information campaign, designed to bring a specific message to different areas, and / or used to transport campaign personnel to local areas / meetings.

Russian military experts advising Menelik II suggested a full contact battle with Italians, to neutralize the Italian fire superiority, instead of engaging in a campaign of harassment designed to nullify problems with arms, training, and organization.

In August 1776, British General William Howe launched a massive naval and land campaign designed to seize New York.

Nike also altered Minor Threat's logo ( designed by Jeff Nelson ) for the same campaign, as well as featuring Nike shoes in the new picture, rather than the combat boots worn by Ian MacKaye's younger brother Alec on the original.

Moreover, the nationwide land leveling and rezoning campaign initiated by Kim Jong Il in Kangwon province in May 1998 and in North Pyongan province in January 2000 facilitated the construction of provincial and county fiber optic lines, which were laid by tens of thousands of KPA soldier-builders and provincial shock brigade members mobilized for the large-scale public works projects designed to rehabilitate the hundreds of thousands of hectares of arable lands devastated by the natural disasters in the late 1990s.

However, the same year a campaign in California called the Briggs Initiative, designed to force the dismissal of homosexual public school employees was defeated.

( see Halabja poison gas attack ) The attack occurred in conjunction with the 1988 al-Anfal campaign designed to reassert central control of the mostly Kurdish population of areas of northern Iraq and defeat the Kurdish peshmerga rebel forces.

The first module released in a series called " The Land Beyond the Mountains ", a full campaign setting designed exclusively for TFT.

In May 2009, Yoko designed a T-shirt for the second ' Fashion against AIDS ' campaign / collection of HIV / AIDS awareness NGO Designers against AIDS and H & M, with the statement ' Imagine Peace ' depicted in 21 different languages.

" 1787 medallion designed by Josiah Wedgwood for the anti-slavery campaign

Pope Adrian IV was naturally opposed to this view and undertook a vigorous propaganda campaign which was designed to diminish Frederick and his ambition.

Garfield crafted a campaign designed to pursue and then trap Confederate General Braxton Bragg in Tullahoma.

Later in 1988, legislative and legal setbacks on proposals designed to limit overall campaign spending by candidates were shelved after a Republican filibuster.

This was a thinly veiled anti-semitic campaign designed to keep himself in power by shifting the attention of the populace from stagnating economy and Communist mismanagement.

Planescape is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by Zeb Cook.

The AOASF is designed to graduate ( 1 ) " Innovative risk takers willing to experiment ," ( 2 ) " Exceptional commanders, schooled in the art of command, and leaders of campaign planning and strategic and operational design ," ( 3 ) " Creative leaders who can solve complex-adaptive problems at the strategic and theater-strategic levels of conflict ," ( 4 ) " Expert evaluators of the practical strategic and operational implications of cultural differences ," and ( 5 ) " Masters at developing and mentoring junior officers.

In 2010 The Society launched ' It's your neighbourhood ' a campaign designed to encourage all to get involved in horticulture for the benefit of a community.

The campaign was designed by McCann Erickson.

* The passage of a law designed to safeguard children's rights and campaign against violence in schools.

Lauper was also one of the celebrities who designed a T-shirt for the second Fashion Against Aids campaign in 2009, a collaboration between H & M and Designers Against Aids to raise HIV / AIDS awareness worldwide, particularly amongst youngsters.

During the campaign, he promised to raise the wages of civil servants, which had been stagnant under Fujimori, and to create 400, 000 jobs a year through programs designed to encourage agriculture, tourism, and small business.

The system played a major part in the massive campaign of deception which preceded the D-Day landings, designed to give the Germans a false impression of the location and timings of the landings ( see Operation Fortitude ).