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An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
-William Tecumseh Sherman
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An Army To Be Useful Must Be

William Tecumseh Sherman
An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
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