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In the United States Army, a major general commands a division of 10,000-20,000 soldiers and is capable of fully independent field operation.
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“... it is probable that in a fit of generosity the men of the United States would have enfranchised its women en masse; and the government now staggering under the ballots of ignorant, irresponsible men, must have gone down under the additional burden of the votes which would have been thrown upon it, by millions of ignorant, irresponsible women.”
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