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Generalship   /dʒˈɛnərəlʃˌɪp/   Listen
noun
Generalship  n.  
1.
The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. "Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene."
2.
Military skill in a general officer or commander.
3.
Fig.: Leadership; management. "An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust."





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"Generalship" Quotes from Famous Books



... pity indeed if Miss Harding were to require no protecting and a young lady here with such a good will to it. But if you will take the suggestion of a man of rather broader experience than your own, you will wait until the occasion arises. It is bad generalship, really, to waste your ammunition ...
— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon
... their merriment. The reason given for their refusal, however, was not deficient in force. "They considered the cause of the country to be hopeless. They were risking life without an adequate object." The defeat of Gates, and his bad generalship, which they had so recently witnessed, were, perhaps, quite sufficient reasons to justify ...
— The Life of Francis Marion • William Gilmore Simms
... view the whole series of operations, from the landing of Howe at the Head of Elk to his entering Philadelphia, the superior generalship of Washington is clearly manifest. Howe, with his numerous and well-appointed army, performed a certain amount of routine work and finally gained the immediate object which he had in view—the possession of Philadelphia—when, ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing
... graceful in fancy, powerful in execution,—in none of these things do they stand so much alone as in plain, calculable quantity; he having always on the average twenty trees or rocks where other people have only one, and winning his victories not more by skill of generalship than by ...
— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin
... his own wise head and valiant arm and the loyal support of his people. When before has a Prince taken supreme command of a nation's army and in the few months preceding and succeeding his accession to the throne by successful generalship doubled the area and population of ...
— The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 - Third Edition • Jacob Gould Schurman


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