 | Oliver Lyman Spaulding, Hoffman Nickerson, John Womack Wright - 1925 - 624 páginas
...taking bribes; a moderate sum of money will frustrate one of their expeditions. On the whole, therefore, it is easier and less costly to wear out a Prankish army by skirmishes, protracted operations in desolate districts, and the cutting off of its supplies, than to attempt to... | |
 | Stanton Arthur Coblentz - 1927 - 518 páginas
...taking bribes; a moderate sum of money will frustrate one of their expeditions. On the whole, therefore, it is easier and less costly to wear out a Prankish army by skirmishes, protracted operations in desolate districts, and the cutting off of its supplies, than to attempt to... | |
 | Gordon S. Brown - 2015 - 222 páginas
...taking bribes; a moderate sum of money will frustrate one of their expeditions. On the whole, therefore, it is easier and less costly to wear out a Prankish army by skirmishes, protracted operations in desolate districts, and the cutting off of its supplies, than to attempt to... | |
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... discontented. Nor are their chiefs above the temptation of taking bribes; a moderate sum of money will frustrate one of their expeditions. On the whole, therefore, it is easier and less costly to wear out a Prankish army by skirmishes, protracted... 