Battles in History...

[OldSarge@70]

What do you see in this Birds Eye view?

 

[OldSarge@70]

It’s called (pardon my French) a damn wilderness. A region and not just a battlefield.

 

[5fish]

I have read that LRT had a steep top and was wooded and rocky and not a good place for artillery, unless you put a lot of work into making it artillery friendly...

 

[5fish]

What do you see in this Birds Eye view?

I look the view... Longstreet was to hit the union line. Where it met LRT...

 

[rittmeister]

It’s called (pardon my French) a damn wilderness. A region and not just a battlefield.

you can call it a fucking wilderness. no reason to involve the french, though

 

[diane]

Little Round Top was one end of the 'fish hook', Culp's Hill the other. It was a very bright idea from Meade, and it held because of Chamberlain's tenacity. Culp's Hill might have been taken the first thing by Ewell, but Ewell didn't do that. He was not the same commander after he lost his leg - before he had been aggressive and a risk taker. This commander was who was needed at Gettysburg! As it was, Ewell wanted orders from Lee to do that.

 

[OldSarge@70]

you can call it a fucking wilderness. no reason to involve the french, though

Fricking jungle … you could be hidden in there and no one could find you except with dogs

 

[diane]

Fricking jungle … you could be hidden in there and no one could find you except with dogs

Or hear you! Battle of the Wilderness - one guy kept marching his brigade all over the countryside looking for the battle...and it was raging right beside him. Nobody heard a thing!

 

[5fish]

What do you see in this Birds Eye view?

Another overlooked topic at Gettysburg was Lee holding Anderson's Div. in reserve... Anderson got the field soon after Lee was observing the evolving battle... Anderson most likely have cleared Cemetery Ridge of Howard's men with his division... It makes sense why Lee would hold him in reserve because Lee needed a back up if the battle went sideways that was unfolding before him.

I going to give Ewell some slack he had to take time to clear out Gettysburg of Union troops and reset for the next push... His men did breach the union position only to be pushed out by an arriving Union troops...

It was Anderson who had the best chance of completely routing the Union troops on day one... We needed the audacious Lee not the prudent Lee...

 

[5fish]

What do you see in this Birds Eye view

Lee did not pick the time or place of the battle. It had chosen for him by fate(Heath)... He was fighting from his saddle on the go... Antietam was the same thing Lee and he failed there too...

 

[OldSarge@70]

Or hear you! Battle of the Wilderness - one guy kept marching his brigade all over the countryside looking for the battle...and it was raging right beside him. Nobody heard a thing!

You can easily become disoriented in it … no kudzo but thick tangled brush that can quickly unorganize any group of men. The few roads and clearings were key

 

[OldSarge@70]

The Wilderness at Salem Church

 

[diane]

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The Wilderness at Salem Church

Terrain played a factor in acoustic shadowing, which was an interesting phenomenon during the Civil War. For instance, it played a factor in Ewell's meeting up with Longstreet - Ewell was supposed to move his troops as soon as he heard Longstreet's artillery open up. He never heard it because Culp's Hill was in the way. The opening artillery barrage before Picketts Charge, which was huge, was not heard by people in Gettysburg but people in Philadelphia heard it. They thought it was thunder but the sky was clear!

 

[OldSarge@70]

 

[OldSarge@70]

More wilderness from Spotsy CH

 

[5fish]

Here is the battle that ended the Picts of Scotland...by the Vikings, started the end...

Picts - Wikipedia

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The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages.[1] Where they lived and details of their culture can be gleaned from early medieval texts and Pictish stones. The name Picti appears in written records as an exonym from the late third century AD

Battle of 839 - Wikipedia

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Kenneth provided stability to northern Britain, uniting the kingdoms of Pictland and Dál Riata, and he is considered by many to be the founder of Scotland.[8] Under the House of Alpin, outsiders stop making references to the Picts, and a gradual process of Gaelicisation takes place, where the Pictish language and customs are replaced. In the 12th century, Henry of Huntingdon writes that "the Picts, however, appear to have been annihilated and their language utterly destroyed, so that the record of them in the writings of the ancients seems like fiction

 

[5fish]

Here is the Battle of Adwa, where Ethiopia defeated the Italians in 1896, and they gained their freedom until the 1930s.

Battle of Adwa - Wikipedia

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The Battle of Adwa (Amharic: የዐድዋ ጦርነት; Tigrinya: ውግእ ዓድዋ; Italian: battaglia di Adua, also spelled Adowa) was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian army managed to defeat the heavily outnumbered invading Italian and Eritrean force led by Oreste Baratieri on March 1, 1896, near the town of Adwa. The decisive victory thwarted the campaign of the Kingdom of Italy to expand its colonial empire in the Horn of Africa.[3] By the end of the 19th century, European powers had carved up almost all of Africa after the Berlin Conference; Ethiopia was the only African country to still maintain their independence.[4] Adwa became a pre-eminent symbol of pan-Africanism and secured Ethiopian sovereignty until the Second Italo-Ethiopian War forty years later.

The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire | Department of History | University of Washington

In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable - it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an...

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In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable - it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age - that sooner or later all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans. This event opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of world war fifty years later, to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule.

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Menelik, who claimed to be descended from the biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and his wife, Taytu Betul, a shrewd opponent of European expansionism, prepared to defend their sovereignty. In addition to securing modern weapons, they launched a public relations campaign with the help of several Europeans sympathetic to their cause.

Swiss-born engineer Alfred Ilg, for example, who served as Menelik’s de facto chief of staff, helped modernize the country’s infrastructure and, during trips to Europe, reportedly promoted Ethiopia as “Africa’s Switzerland.” Other Europeans published admiring articles about the Ethiopian court, sometimes referring to the devout Menelik as “Africa’s Christian monarch.” Menelik became somewhat of a celebrity, and, later on, even traded phonograph messages with England’s Queen Victoria. “He’s a down-to-earth monarch,” says Haile, with a “charming” and “magnetic” personality.

 

[5fish]

Here is a video... Earlier, the British left weapons...

 

[5fish]

 

[5fish]

A German naval victory over the British. The first British naval defeat since 1812... @rittmeister , @Wehrkraftzersetzer