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To: DiogenesLamp

No that would be the General Lee. Pickett lost 49% of his attacking force at Cemetary Ridge. “Picket’s Charge” was a replay of Lee’s assault at Malvern Hill. He ignored the old military dictum “never attack a superior enemy, up hill, when the enemy is expecting the attack. Both the Maryland campaign and the Pennsylvania Campaign ended in failure. Neither produced the results that the Army Commander planned to achieve.


203 posted on 06/05/2019 8:01:01 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe
Getting ground down to dust anyway. He took a chance, and a lot of lucky breaks didn't go his way.

Would have pulled it off had a few things gone differently, but sometimes that's just the luck of the draw.

204 posted on 06/05/2019 8:04:46 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no o<ither sovereignty.")
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