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... First, should he re-supply it--and risk war--or not and concede defeat, thereby giving the secessionist South a valuable bit of propaganda? Was there a diplomatic solution? To help answer these quest...
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The Russian invasion to South Ossetia is a new event that we are trying to see as an old one.
What I mean is that instead of seeing the situation in its unique con
Just finished reading an article in the Volume 7, Number 1 issue of North & South magazine titled 'Abraham Lincoln: Savior or Tyrant'.
Very interesting article pitting Thomas DiLorenzo against Georg
...o road that lead directly from one to the other. You had to drive to the west side of the ranch and then South then back east to get from Corpus to Port Isabel....
couple weeks ago there was a big gun show in South Africa. they invited the guy who invented the famous AK-47 assult rifle to the show. according to the soviet legend, this guy (i forget his his name,
Does somebody have numbers on how many people fought against their 'own' side ? Any good sources to look it all up ?
Let's alter the past for just a moment. Let's pretend that the hot heads in the South get reined in by the more reasonable voices and decide to endure one Term (Four Years) with Lincoln as President t
On December 30, 1862, the U.S.S. Monitor was about twenty miles south west of Cape Hatteras, being towed by the U.S.S. Rhode Island. The day had been pleasant when they left Hampton Roads on the twent
I am searching for a map that shows southern France, particularly around Marseilles, at about 1942-1944. I need a map that shows roads in the area, and, if at all possible, where any German installati
... a two hour drive of DC, ranging from Gettysburg in the north to the battlefields around Richmond in the south. (Appomattox may be a bit more than 2 hours, but not by much.)
Plus DC itself has a num...
...r Northerner Eli Whitney had designed his famous cotton gin, and cotton production was booming. In fact, Southern cotton production increased from an estimated 11,000 bales in 1793, to an estimated 7,...
...disregard for all constitutional barriers and guarantees.)
I admitted that the fathers, both North and South, who framed the old Constitution, while recognizing exsisting slavery and guaranteeing it...
Northerners say, 'There ain't no hell.'
Southerners say, 'The hell there ain't!!'
... and I can't find it, that Lincoln was left off the ballot for the election of 1860 in most, if not all, southern states. True? If true...was each individual state in the 19th century in charge of its...
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I just moved into new home built 2 miles south of Middleway WV. It's on 4 acres and is located next to a foundation of a very old farm house. After all this rain, I have been finding miniballs in
...s America's bloodiest war. (He also claimed that all the important battles of the war were fought in the South, but...)
Obviously the raw numbers of the ARW don't match the ACW, but look at percenta...
...re about the propaganda value of the EP - he believed the Northern abolitionists had been slandering the South for years. The EP was nothing compared to _Uncle Tom's Cabin_.
The explanation is simpl...
...er words they did just what you say they had no chance to do with regards to amphibous landings( here in Southern California) through out the Pacific Basin during that time period. That was was one of...
...m Breiner, and is posted with his permission.
Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862, by Joseph L. Harsh, The Kent State University Press, Kent, OH, 19...
Could you direct me to a list of occupation troops who served in the South during Reconstruction and where they served? I am particularly interested in Union troops who served in or around Vicksburg,
...ly minor battles where only a small amount of casualties took place. The battles need to take place in a Southern state...and the Union is the victor. Thanks....
...s as the Northern League, demanding the secession of all regions north of the Po River from impoverished southern Italy and Sicily and the foundation of the independent state of 'Padania,' testifies),...
...Glasfabri und Tyrolit-Schleifmittelwerke, Watten. This appears to be in occupied Poland. Probably in the south part of the country.
CAG is a code required by the Germans. The Germans used digits fro...
...all participants in this newsgroup:
The moderators have become quite concerned over the thread titled 'Southern Honor' for several reasons.
Much of the discussion has drifted off-topic, concerning...
...Also, Germany used this media as a propaganda tool. I understand that transmissions were received in the South of Englad. Is there any source where I could get more information on this subject as I am...
...large majority of the people who had to put up with this were not asked, although Ian Smuts, delegate of South Africa and later Prime Minister, demanded plebiscites especially in regard to Hungary. He...
...oint in contention here is that General McDowell had a force at Fredericksburg that was supposed to move south and link up with the right of the AOP. And that was not a bad idea.
Now McClellan had t...
...he Union skirmishers cheered when they witnessed the act of kindness.
Upon returning to his lines, the Southerner yelled, 'Get down Yanks, we're going to fire again.'
Does anyone have any idea abo...
...at it here.
Whom do you believe are the lowest and scummiest personalities of the Civil War. North and South?...
...ging from the Revolutionary War, and the philosophies and limitations of the Constitution, up to the New South era and beyond. Discussion in the group will be limited to military, economic, political,...
...to the market for which slave picked cotton was the source material. Slavery did a lot of good north AND south in terms of narrow economic interest.
Yet the same folks who profited from slavery indi...
...ith Picketts Charge was he sick or what. They never of course stood a chance in hell to make it. And the south still adores Lee?????...
...f water, i.e., Army of the Ohio, Army of the Potomac, Army of the Cumberland, and Army of the Tennessee. Southern armies were often named after geographical areas, i.e, Army of Northern Virginia, Army...
...ft. VVS losses (not counting ADD and PVO) were only 566. By early 1943, the Soviet fighter pilots in the south had achieved parity with the Luftwaffe. And there was still a year and a half of Soviet i...
... Libertarians to differentiate between a right of States to secede, on the one hand, and support for the South's actions, on the other.
The Confederates violated libertarian principles even before F...
... country, when she clearly did; she had all the things that make a sovereign country.
Then there's the Southern members of Congress who quit as the war was breaking out, such as U.S. Sen. Jefferson ...
...ail and the property master did an excellent job.
There's hardly a false note in it. They even got the Southern uniforms and insignia right. General Robert E. Lee is properly wearing Colonel's...
...lon was properly formed up, however Guderian played into Zhukovs hands by sending his whole Panzer Group south, and leaving AGC to be chewed up by heavier and heavier Soviet counter attacks around the...
... according to microfilm at the US National Archives:
89 PzVI 's(Tiger tank) were on-hand to the entire southern Front, Kursk, 4th July 1943.
Day (PzVI - Destroyed and Abandonded) 4 0 5 2 6 1 7 1 8...
... press are carrying reports of a Luftwaffe DO-217 bomber being unearthed during pipelaying operations in South Bank, Middlesborough. Large amounts of ammunition and a machine gun have been recovered a...
...ning the aim of protecting the Saipan landing.(Compare with Halsey at Leyte.) Lee was in WASHINGTON with SOUTH DAKOTA in Nov 42 and blamed for losing control of that night battle, or was he? Did that ...
...? What where the plans next ?
I suppose that reserves and evacuated forces would have been sent to the South of France to open the Second Front where and wherever possible. Or would the allies have ...
...P!!!! I have been searching for a US Navy Anti-Sub or Scouting squardron that was based somewhere in the South Atlantic. A friend of the family was killed in action on April 29, 1944. I have an old le...
One of the more persistent and peculiar charges the Federals make in connectiuon with the War for Southern Independence is that of 'treason'. The constitutional definiton of treason is given, very cle
...ely portrayed as supporting the Confederacy because politically correct historians prefer to connect the South and the Confederate flag with the evils of slavery. But history tells another side of the...
...ive the Federal government out of D.C. in an attempt to gain the support of the UK/France while boosting Southern moral, if they happen to get lucky and hit the White House killing Lincoln in the proc...
...t to save the architecture) the Union kept Washington as capitol during the CW is a mystery to me. It is south of the Mason-Dixon and adjoining the most dangerous of the CSA states, (Va.) sandwiched b...
Is North & South still being published ? The website hasn't been updated since March of this year. Robert McClain
The subject of secession is usually discussed in regards to the Southern States. Do those who support the theory that the legality of secession is unquestionable also support the the theory that had a
...native to standing siege was to break out.
So the Confederates concentrated their forces, attacked the southern end of the Union encirclement, and broke through. Then, thanks to Pillow, they retreat...
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