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Old 02-25-2008, 05:03 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Re: Greatest military strategist
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Originally Posted by Invictus View Post
Antietam and Chattagoga were of much more significance. I think if you believe the death of one man can have such drastic effects on the outcome of a war you have the South tinted glasses on.
I am not going to deny that my sympathies lie with the South.

I think you are trivializing the shooting of General Jackson though. Robert E. Lee thought he was so important to the war that when he found out about General Jackson's injury he said:

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Originally Posted by Robert E. Lee
He's lost his left arm. I've lost my right.

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"If tyranny and opression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison

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"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone that...talked about such a thing." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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