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ROBERT E. LEE: OUR GREATEST GENERAL?
Posted on 06/22/2018 11:46:12 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET
America’s Greatest Generals would probably go Washington, Jackson (who is also a problem for the left), Patton, Lee, in that order. However, I see your point and agree.
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posted on
06/22/2018 11:50:07 AM PDT
by
RainMan
(rainman)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Maybe the greatest British General ever, Viscount Garnet Wolsley said that of all the great men he had met, and he had met most of the great ones of his time, Lee was in a class by himself.
He considered him not only the best general but the best man.
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posted on
06/22/2018 11:50:15 AM PDT
by
yarddog
To: DIRTYSECRET
If it weren’t for congestive heart failure he likely wouldn’t have called for the charge across the Peach Orchard (Pickett’s).
He probably would have prevailed at Gettysburg and marched on Washington.
History would have been different.
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posted on
06/22/2018 11:51:02 AM PDT
by
budj
(combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Except he wasn’t “our” greatest general. He was the military commander of an insurrectionist faction that took up arms against the United States of America.
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posted on
06/22/2018 11:51:29 AM PDT
by
stormer
To: stormer
I’ll take him over the loyal Left that kicked the Constitution to the curb over a fistful of programs.
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posted on
06/22/2018 11:54:20 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: budj
If it werent for congestive heart failure he likely wouldnt have called for the charge across the Peach Orchard (Picketts). Heart failure affected his decision making?
To: DIRTYSECRET
Talented, may have meant well, was a man of decency and character — but he picked the wrong cause.
To: budj
He probably would have prevailed at Gettysburg and marched on Washington.
Or, at the start of the second day, could have moved Longstreet around the Union left and moved Ewell to the southeast and cut the Army of the Potomac off from Washington.
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posted on
06/22/2018 11:56:29 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(Antifa and Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) = SturmAbteilung)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Robert E. Lee was a treasonous bastard who took up arms against the duly elected government of The United States and against the flag of The United States in order to help preserve an economic system based on the use of slave labor. He, along with Jefferson Davis are directly responsible for the deaths of some 700,000 Americans.
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posted on
06/22/2018 11:56:44 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: DIRTYSECRET
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posted on
06/22/2018 11:57:10 AM PDT
by
deks
To: BlueLancer
And if he did what kind of a nation would we be today?
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posted on
06/22/2018 11:57:27 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: DIRTYSECRET
He ordered Pickets charge.
A military disaster of epic proportions.
It almost succeeded, and would have been one of the very great accomplishments...but it failed.
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posted on
06/22/2018 11:57:47 AM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: deks
Eishenhower was an equally worse field commander than Lee was.
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posted on
06/22/2018 11:58:36 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: jmacusa
Robert E. Lee was a treasonous bastard who took up arms against the duly elected government of The United States and against the flag of The United States in order to help preserve an economic system based on the use of slave labor. He, along with Jefferson Davis are directly responsible for the deaths of some 700,000 Americans.Yawn.
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posted on
06/22/2018 11:59:27 AM PDT
by
Texas Mulerider
(Rap music: hieroglyphics with a beat.)
To: budj
“If it werent for congestive heart failure he likely wouldnt have called for the charge across the Peach Orchard (Picketts).”
I’ve heard that too. He did complain to an aide or two about not feeling well - I think his symptoms may have been similar to a heart attack.
But what really ruined Lee at Gettysburg was not having Jeb Stuart’s cavalry doing proper recon of the Union Army. It was always my feeling that Lee wanted a fight - but at a time and place of his choosing. Stuart’s absence cost him that advantage.
To: jmacusa
Yeah D-Day was a big failure. You surely know that.
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posted on
06/22/2018 12:00:22 PM PDT
by
deks
To: DIRTYSECRET
Tearing down statues and monuments are like book burnings.
You can't edit history, we have to retain all of it or we will never learn.
If we erase everything about one side in a conflict, how can future generations understand why there was a war.
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posted on
06/22/2018 12:00:48 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Lee was wonderful, but Grant was America’s greatest General. And Sherman should be considered. And a very strong case can be made for General Custer. They’ve made him into a laughing stock today but the truth of it is he probably saved the union during the Civil War.
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posted on
06/22/2018 12:01:36 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: BlueLancer
General Stuart, you have let us all down.
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