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ROTFL!!
Let's get you to 5k first, what say you????
Pfffttt. I will be too old for the party by the time I hit 5000 posts, LOL!
BS.
Hang with me as I start to get my bounce back - we'll get you there before we're both too old for the party.
I hope.
Lee was a brilliant leader, PI, but he couldn't match the north's manpower or equipment. Still, though, the Southern troops fought brilliantly, throughout the war. He made a big mistake at Gettysburg in overestimating his soldiers capabilities.
He showed that, when he sent infantry over open ground to attack entrenched Northern troops and artillery. The outcome was obvious, but he didn't see it.
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What party are you two talking about? There is no party. lolBS.
Hang with me as I start to get my bounce back - we'll get you there before we're both too old for the party.
I hope.
Oh, he was a great leader—no question about it. Easily the best tactical mind of any general in the war, far and away. All I'm saying is that he had the advantage of playing defense in an era when armies were still using tin-soldier, Napoleonic offensive tactics when they'd begun to become obsolete by the weaponry at hand.
T's 5k party.
Y'all are on another page completely. Don't mind us wimmen folk - we can talk amongst ourselves and be OK with it.
And I'll have chocolate there just for you, Jerry!
T's 5k party.
Y'all are on another page completely. Don't mind us wimmen folk - we can talk amongst ourselves and be OK with it.
Yeah, especially since I forgot all that stuff about the Battle of Gettysburg right after the test
Yeah, especially since I forgot all that stuff about the Battle of Gettysburg right after the test
Yeah, especially since I forgot all that stuff about the Battle of Gettysburg right after the test
Didn't you get the Southern Belle's test? All you had to remember was that the South lost.
Exactly, PI. Rifled muskets and artillery pieces rendered those tactics obsolete. Those same Napoleonic offensive tactics were still being used in WWI, with even more disastrous results.
I think that he was aware that the north would grind his armies down in a protracted war and that his best path to victory was to bring the war to the north.
I think that he was aware that the north would grind his armies down in a protracted war and that his best path to victory was to bring the war to the north.
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PI thinks that I'm a Yankee. He doesn't know that my relatives who were here back then, wore the gray.
Perhaps that, but he spoke of a feeling of invincibility—not himself, but the Army of Northern Virginia. He could be forgiven that, because nearly all the Northern generals were incompetent in one way or another. And he must have decided his army was invincible, to decide that sending Pickett across thousands of yards of open ground, naked against artillery and into the teeth of prepared breastworks was a good idea.
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