How do people describe the battle of Petersburg and what was its significance?
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the more i look at your questions i dont think you did a search at all for this.  This is not homework help, these guys are doing your homework for you.  \n\nIts nothing grand or in-depth that they are providing.  You just didnt take the time to do a proper google or wikipedia search.  Just think you could have been done with your homework if you would have searched correctly first.
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Michigan had no battles.  Indiana only had Sherman's Raiders, which by your reasoning, didn't count as a battle.  Of all of the Northern states, only Pennsylvania had major action.\n\nConversely, every Southern state had military action, and in most cases, significant military action.  \n\nOf the border states, Maryland had significant military action at Sharpsburg, as Lee's army attempted the same action that would lead to the battle in Pennsylvania a year later at Gettysburg.
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There once was a war that was pivital\nAnd somehow this war was called "civil"\nThey all fought alot\nAnd someone got shot\nIt's too bad when different sides quibble!
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Union:  at first, Winfield Scott led the forces, but "old fuss and feathers" was too old for the job...\nLincoln tried McClellan (and many others!!) but McClellan was nicknamed "tardy" for a reason--he didn't win decisively enough or pursue the Confederates\nUltimately, Lincoln gave the honors to Ulysses Hiram Simpson Grant\nfor the Confederacy---while there were many great generals (Johnston, for example) it was Robert E Lee who commanded (no pun intended) the greatest respect...and the one who surrendered for the CSA in April of 1865
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Union Admiral at the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War.\n\n"Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!"\n\nYou could always Google it yourself.......
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The battle of Chicamauga in the Civil War.\n\nhttp://ngeorgia.com/history/chickam.html\n\nBy the way, if you didn't have time to look it up yourself, then how did you have time to ask this question, and then wait for an answer for it.  Sounds like someone needs to get their priorities straightened out.
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Place: On the Charlestown Peninsula on the North side of Boston Harbour.\n\nCombatants: British troops of the Boston garrison against troops of the American Continental Army.\n\nGenerals: Major General Howe against General Artemas Ward and General Israel Putnam\n\nSize of the armies: 2,400 British troops against 1,500 Americans.\n\nUniforms, arms and equipment: The British grenadiers, light infantry and battalion company men wore red coats, the headgear of the companies, bearskin fronted mitre caps, tricorne hats and caps, and were armed with muskets and bayonets. The British had light guns and were supported by the heavy guns of the fleet. The Americans were armed with muskets or whatever firearms they could obtain, a few bayonets and some light guns.\n\nWinner: While the British drove the Americans from the Charlestown peninsula it was with heavy loss. The battle was at the time considered to be an American defeat but has since been lifted to the ranks of a heroic stands against forces of oppression.\nBritish Regiments: \nThe flank companies (grenadiers and light companies) of the 4th, 10th, 18th, 22nd, 23rd, 35th, 59th, 63rd and 65th.\n\n5th Foot later Northumberland Fusiliers and now the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers\n38th Foot later the South Staffordshire Regiment and now the Staffordshire Regiment\n43rd Foot later 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and now 1st Bn Royal Green Jackets.\n47th Foot later the North Lancashire Regiment and now the Queen’s Royal Lancashire Regiment\n52nd Foot later 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and now 1st Bn Royal Green Jackets\nMarines: now the Royal Marines\n\nAccount: \nWith the outbreak of the war General Gage, the British commander in chief, found himself blockaded in Boston by the American Continental Army, occupying the hills to the West of the city. Gage resolved to seize the Charlestown peninsula across the harbour. Before he could act, on the night of 16th June 1775 around 1,500 American troops of the Massachusetts regiments and Putnam’s Connecticut regiment occupied Breed’s Hill and Bunker Hill on the peninsula. The American troops began to build a redoubt on Breed’s Hill. The fortification was complete by the morning, after a night of frenzied work. The presence of the Americans on the peninsula was observed by His Majesty’s Ship Lively which opened fire on them.\n\nPlans were hurriedly put in motion by the British to attack the Americans and drive them from their position. Major General Howe, one of the three generals sent from Britain to assist General Gage, was given the command. While the preparations were in train the Americans extended their fortifications from the redoubt to the sea shore, to prevent a flank attack. More American troops gathered on Bunker Hill but few of them could be persuaded to move to the forward positions on Breed’s Hill.\n\nI know i got here to late but i have an excuse. Iam from the UK. lol.\nWell done to Parrotjohn2001
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Welll, this site offers info about this battle, as well as an eyewitness account by an officer on George Washington's staff.  Scroll halfway down the page for the eyewitness account.\n\nhttp://theamericanrevolution.org/battles/bat_tren.asp\n\nAlso, the following site describes the lives of the soldiers and cites entries in their personal diaries about their conditions and view of the war:\n\nhttp://www.americanrevolution.org/soldier10.html
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valley forge, how the Americans pulled 2gether to stay alive during the winter.\n\nlexington and concord- the shot heard round the world and the 1st battle.\n\ni hav more... just ask on my email
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The American Civil War was worth fighting from all focal points. If it was not fought, African-Americans would still be under the evil of slavery. We also would not be the country that we are today; we would be split in two. North vs. South. Brother vs. Brother. Family vs. Family.\n\n   It has often been said that the Civil War was a turning point in America. In this great war, we Americans actually became Americans. We were not Northerners. We were not Southerners. We were Americans, and we still are today. And in the Civil War, people fought for what they believed, not because they were forced to, not for any reward, not for any kind of land, or money, or gain. They just fought for what they believed.\n\n\nP.S. Yoube72: LOL very funny! I'm a SW fan too.
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try:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
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The Battle of Gettsyburg was fought in 1863, (July 1-3) during the Civil War, which lasted from 1860-1865.  It was the turning point of the war and marked the 'high tide' of the Confederacy.  Ironically, the day after the battle was July 4th, the celebration of American indepedence.....
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The Citizens of one county fighting each other.\nThere was a huge Civil War in the USA - Citizens from the North fought the Citizens from the South - with a tremendous loss of life.  Most of the men fighting and dying do not really understand what they are fighting for.
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"Godoompah" & "Starry Eyes" are correct.  The Civil War was an unmitigated disaster for both sides.  If that doesn't make sense to you; if you really can't understand how both sides could lose, then just try this simple three-step process....\n\n1) Open your eyes and read the deathtoll:\n    \n    120,000 killed in action \n    240,000 died of other causes \n  ~360,000 TOTAL Union dead and/or missing \n\n     95,000 killed in action \n   165,000 died of other causes \n ~260,000 TOTAL Confederate dead and/or missing \n\n  ~620,000 Union and Confederate soldiers \n   UNKNOWN total Northern and Southern civilian\n   casualties \n  \n2) Open your mind and think about it....\n\n3) Open your heart and feel about it....\n\nIf you really do this, neither the Civil War nor any of the other Overklass-generated orgies of mass murder will ever look the same again.....\n\nBefore some damn fool says so, I'm not a pacifist, a communist, or even a liberal ; I'm just a middle-aged guy who lived long enough to see through some of the crap our Beloved Leaders keep throwing at us to keep us all permanently mind-f***ed....\n\nNimadan
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I'm not going to do your homework for you, but I'll point you to some sources on the web:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon's_invasion_of_Russia\nhttp://www.zum.de/whkmla/military/napwars/napinv.html
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It is from a poem called "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Tennyson.  It was written after Tennyson read about The Charge of the Light Brigade that happened during the Crimean War:\n\n<second stanza>\n\n'Forward, the Light Brigade!'\nWas there a man dismay'd?\nNot tho' the soldiers knew\n   Some one had blunder'd:\nTheirs not to make reply,\nTheirs not to reason why,\nTheirs but to do & die,\nInto the valley of Death\n   Rode the six hundred.\n\nIt basically means that soldiers on the battlefield are just following orders and they don't have time to consider the validity or consequences of their actions, lest they be killed in the moment that they do so.
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Speed and strength. Blitzkrieg means "lightning war". They relied on being able to strike fast and hard against their target and completely destroy them. Thereby winning faster.\n\n\npeace