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To: Valin

Longstreet's stategic and tactical thinking beautifully anticipated the First World War 50 years before its time. It cost the European nations millions of lives to discover what paying attention to Longstreet could have taught them.


3 posted on 01/08/2005 7:22:18 AM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (Their women give good lamentation, maybe we can conquer them again sometime.)
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To: NaughtiusMaximus
Also inventor (in large part) of the transverse trench. Probably the one true tactical innovation to emerge from the Civil War.

Which saved a lot of lives.

10 posted on 01/08/2005 7:57:50 AM PST by The Iguana
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