Did Robert E. Lee Lose the Civil War for the South? Abstract Most history books portray Robert E. Lee as the greatest general of the American Civil War, acknowledging his brilliance as the reason that the South lasted four years against a vastly superior Union force. The reality was that Lee’s strategy and tactics actually was the reason that the South lost what was a “winnable” conflict. Where the South needed a tie, Lee went for the win and therefore was a major reason the South lost. This paper will evaluate Lee’s military strategic capability in the context of the war and his battlefield leadership, demonstrating how his aggressive “Virginia first” strategy directly contributed to the Confederate loss.
Shortly before what would be the final Confederate assault, the Union army quickly realized that it was out of ammo, and Chamberlain ordered what can only be described as a desperate suicide mission: a bayonet charge down the hill. Miraculously, it worked and the Union line held and Chamberlain received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery. I’ve taught English before, and were I to face a charging force of screaming Ribs, I would have ditched my bayonet, grabbed my Whitman, and booked it out of there. The Battle of Gettysburg may be most infamously known for the events of Day 3, when Lee (going against the advice of his generals once more), launched the bulk of his army on an enormous frontal assault on the Union center which he thought had been weakened by the previous day’s flank assaults. He was wrong.
The reason for this is because the army couldn’t defend the empire. Due to the army not being able to defend the empire, other regions quickly stepped up and tried to make the empire part of their own. The barbarians succeeded, and the Barbarian General Odoacer simply deposed the boy Emperor Romulus Augustulus and took the empire for himself. Another reasonable cause of the Roman Empire would be bankruptcy. Its leaders who became far too selfish and self-absorbed bankrupted Rome.
This assignment deals specifically with military lessons learned. By your own orientation to cooperative work in a mission-driven organization like the armed forces, do you consider yourself to be a strategic thinker, a tactical planner, or a logistician? How do you determine that, and how does your own daily life and work demonstrate that? Then, with your own understanding of what cooperation and support you need from others involved, what do you need from others in their roles to accomplish your own work successfully? Finally, what strictly military lessons have you learned from the course so far that would help you accomplish your mission more effectively?
In 1912 Woodrow Wilson was elected President of the United States. Wilson, in his first term, had successfully kept Americans troops out of World War I. This was difficult at the time because almost all powerful countries were starting to pick sides. However eventually American involvement became necessary later on in the war as the powerful countries of Europe faced off in 1914 in what was to be four years of horrific war. During these first four years, America managed to mind its own business and really avoid much if any conflict at all, however, in the latter part of it America played a key role in really demolishing all hope that Germany had left by defeating them.
While both great generals started, their military careers the same way the rest of their careers were very different. General Lee was a great military general continuing a family tradition while Grant simply excelled at something he was forced to do. Through correspondence of letters both General Grant and General Lee agreed to end the war on April 9, 1865 in at the village of Appomattox Court House. Some believe if General Lee had more support and ammunition then he would have been the winner easily and it would not have taken four years to get the job done. The Comparison of General Grant and General Lee There were many comparisons between the two generals over the course of the Civil War.
In April 1865, General Robert Lee(who led the confederates) surrendered to the union General Ulysses Grant. The Civil War was over. * CONSEQUENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR Less than a week after the South surrendered, a confederate sympathizer killed President Lincoln. So Vice-president Andrew Johnson became president with the job of uniting the country. Johnson was a southerner so he gave back the southerners their political rights.
Because it comes on the most important holiday on the Vietnamese calendar – New Year Celebrations * 3. What was the objective of the Tet Offensive? To demoralize the American troops and people and force the United States out of the war, after which South Vietnam could be defeated or forced into a peace which favored the North. It worked in that American support for the war collapsed after Tet. * 4.
After several weeks of tension and loose talk of war, the crisis was resolved when the Lincoln administration released the envoys and disavowed Captain Wilkes's actions. No formal apology was issued. Mason and Slidell resumed their voyage to Britain but failed in their goal of achieving diplomatic recognition. The Union’s main focus in foreign affairs was just the opposite: to prevent any British recognition of the South. There had been continuous improvement in Anglo-American relations throughout the 1850s.
This would last only a few days before the Americans and South Vietnamese countered successfully and decimated the Vietcong force. This in and of itself would be huge. The reason that it would be huge is that a major problem for American troops was knowing who to trust and who to shoot as Vietcong was in South Vietnam. With them eliminated the war would be normalized to battle lines instead of the skewed map of controlled areas before the counter attack. However, all of this is nulled by the fact that America was set back at all when it appeared that America was invincible.