Just to show you how little reliance can be placed even on what are supposed the best accounts of a battle, I mention that there are some circumstances mentioned in General -'s account which did not occur as he relates them. It is impossible to say when each important occurrence took place, or in what order.

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.

Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.

I have seen their backs before.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.