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My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

— James Longstreet

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

— Paul von Hindenburg

Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.

— John Buford

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

— Sun Tzu

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

— Douglas Haig

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

— Donald Trump

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.

— James Mattis

I had my own battle tactics.

— Lech Walesa

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

— Sun Tzu

There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.

— John Buford

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