The Illustrious Order of Hospitalers and Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. E-book. Formato PDF John Corson Smith   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In selecting the three grand masters of the Hospitalers, who. For their ability to organize and command in battle. To assault or defend a fortress or city, or rule and govern so mixed a body of men of so many languages as constituted The Illustrious Knights of St. John, of Palestine, Rhodes, and Malta, from their organiza tion 1100 a.d. To 1798 a.d., and particularly the three to whom in our judgment the honor belongs for much of the glory which at taches to the Order of the Knights of Malta. We cannot be far wrong when we name Raymond du Puy, Philip Villiers de L Isle Adam, and John de la Valette. It is not our intention to enter into any discussion of the merits of the two great orders of knighthood which had their origin in, and did such valiant fighting for the possession of the Holy Land,much as we believe the Order of the Hospitalers. The Illustrious Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, better known as the Knights of Malta to have been the older and greater, as it certainly was the longer in existence.

Grant: An Address Delivered at the 23d Annual Reunion of the Old Soldiers and Sailors Association of Jo Daviess County, Turner Hall, Galena, August 15, 1905. E-book. Formato PDF John Corson Smith   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almostinestimable service you have done the country. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did, march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east. Of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that vou were right and I was ong. Much other evidence might. Be presented of the soldierly qualities of our commander were it necessary, but I will content myself with a brief reference to one or two.