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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, May-July 1917

1917-06-29 Robert M. Browning to Miss Mabel Williams Page 4

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the Western Field. We go over some of the big battles and figure out why it was done so, and what the probable result would have been had it been done some other way. These lessons make this seem a lot more like an army school than the problems we have been studying in maneuvering. Of course we may need to know how to maneuver after we break up the trenches, but so far in the war all that has been required is ability to lead men straight ahead. This letter probably sounds like a crazy quilt. I don't dare read it over? They yelled, "Come and get it!" just after I started this at noon. I came back and
 
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