The Civil War line would've shot dead Napoleon's men at 200 yards, way before Napoleon's men reached effective range. Also, Civil War rifles had a bit better rate of fire than Napoleonic muskets.
It's stupid to say 50 against 200.
Oh boo hoo civilization will fall because a statue of a Confederat treasonous arsehole and mediocre general was destroyed.They cut that statue up...destroying it. These leftists....they are so destructive....they won't stop with the statues...on to destroying the US and the world.
The North won at Gettysburg because of Lee's inept leadership. Lee was clever at moving troops around and keeping his evil cause alive for several years longer than otherwise... but he proved at Gettysburg to be nothing like the image Southern traitors maintain of him as a genius, a great guy, and all that.Good Gawd...the communists and their stupidity.
Lee was a brilliant tactician. Respected both in the South and North.
The North had more money and more men and more importantly more ships to block the south from getting supplies. The NORTH had the army before the war---the South had to build theirs after. Even still with all of this, without the potatoe famine in Ireland forcing their people to leave and the North forcing them into the military as soon as they arrived, the North would lost. The tiny little south did quit well under Lee.
But... it all turned out well in the end. The evil South lost, the treasonous Confederats were smashed, and today we're having to repeat the narrative, a lot of Yankees moving into Virginia to turn the state blue and turn it away from the treasonous stance advocated by the resident white-right Southerners.Good Gawd...the communists and their stupidity.
Lee was a brilliant tactician. Respected both in the South and North.
The North had more money and more men and more importantly more ships to block the south from getting supplies. The NORTH had the army before the war---the South had to build theirs after. Even still with all of this, without the potatoe famine in Ireland forcing their people to leave and the North forcing them into the military as soon as they arrived, the North would lost. The tiny little south did quit well under Lee.
And... so what?even Abe Lincoln hated blacks, though he thought they should be free
Frederick Douglass pointed this out more than once
sinajuavi said:Robert E. Lee was a traitor and a pig. Anyone crying over the removal of his statues is likewise.
Lincoln thought blacks should be free. Just not in this country.even Abe Lincoln hated blacks, though he thought they should be free
Frederick Douglass pointed this out more than once
Cleverly put in your own mind, but you got caught attempting to make something out of nothing..(supply lines to Afghanistan). ROTFLMBO.Robert E. Lee would certainly have had supply line problems to Afghanistaan. Trump is a numb nuts who NEVER thinks.
That's an advantage, but improvements to weapons or tech aren't what change the way wars are fought; fundamental changes come from new weapons forcing new tactics. The Colt revolver improved the effectiveness of cavalry, but that didn't make anything obsolete. By the Civil War, the Gatling guns were in wide use, but that leads to the second truism: It takes time.Napoleonic muskets had trouble hitting targets at 25 yards. They practiced "volley fire" where they stood in a line and fired all at once, hoping they would randomly hit someone on the other side.
Civil War muskets were accurate out 10 times as far.
Why are you having so much trouble understanding what a huge advantage that is?
Hannibal, Alexander the Great and Napoleon met in the afterlife.England could have won the revolutionary war if they had used Challenger 2 tanks against the Americans.
I think I see the severe consequences of brainwashing... Can you tell us about the soviet horrors you're hinting at? Mass murder of women and children?...But the things that would have to be done to win were not even done by the Soviets...
That's an advantage, but improvements to weapons or tech aren't what change the way wars are fought; fundamental changes come from new weapons forcing new tactics. The Colt revolver improved the effectiveness of cavalry, but that didn't make anything obsolete. By the Civil War, the Gatling guns were in wide use, but that leads to the second truism: It takes time.
Here, a case study: One of Lee's several mistakes at Gettysburg was ordering Pickett's Charge. It was a classic Napoleonic move: Blow the hell out of the enemy center, then march your troops through it, splitting him in two. There's evidence writ large that Lee was still using Napoleonic tactics in the Civil War. As it turns out, it failed horribly, and it was about the last time we saw Napoleonics in use.
Roosevelt demonstrated the effectiveness of massed Gatlings at San Juan Hill, and then by WWI, mass charges were madness due to all of the machine guns—and yet a few were attempted, with predictable results. (Ever see the movie War Horse? That.) Machine guns didn't just improve on existing tactics, but brought in new ones, and warfare changed, and WWI was fought mostly in trenches.
Airplanes changed that again, adding a whole new dimension. Then, tanks changed it again, and air war and blitzkrieg ruled WWII. That's how the warfare changes, not just because Minie balls could shoot farther.
I am not sure I know what you are getting at, but if you ask if the Soviet Union was an evil empire, the answer is yes. The USSR was a slave state, so unless you advocate for slavery, you would agree that it was an evil empire. Communism is a form of slavery where the state owns the people in the same a farmer owns his cows and can do with them as he wishes. Communism is an insidious form of slavery as that it attempts to convince the slaves that they are the actual masters. But wait until there is a food shortage, and one can easily see who the masters are. They grow fat as the people go hungry.I think I see the severe consequences of brainwashing... Can you tell us about the soviet horrors you're hinting at? Mass murder of women and children?
Really? Looks like now I have to reevaluate all my 35 years of life in the USSR. But you seem to know this life better than I do, so... Any way, tell me more about my life as a soviet slave, it's most interesting!if you ask if the Soviet Union was an evil empire, the answer is yes. The USSR was a slave state, so unless you advocate for slavery, you would agree that it was an evil empire.
Really? Looks like now I have to reevaluate all my 35 years of life in the USSR. But you seem to know this life better than I do, so... Any way, tell me more about my life as a soviet slave, it's most interesting!
You quoting idiots is a show of your true nature. Get a clue.let's assume that Robert E Lee was a great general and a good Christian man (he wasn't)
Lee presided over a traitorous army that wanted no America left
Lee enslaved people, despite disavowing slavery
Gen. Lee statue comes down in former Confederate capital
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee that towered over Richmond for generations was taken down, cut into pieces and hauled away Wednesday, as the former capital of the Confederacy erased the last of the Civil War figures that once defined its most prominent thoroughfare.apnews.com
He's reported to have been solet's assume that Robert E Lee was a great general
Based on what standard? Are you?and a good Christian man (he wasn't)
He was fine with the United States existing, just not dictating to and bankrupting southern states.. so since the federal gov't abused them, they started their own shindig. Not that hard to understand.Lee presided over a traitorous army that wanted no America left
So did northerners. The practice was seen as common then.. if you lived then, it would have been acceptable to you.Lee enslaved people, despite disavowing slavery
False.let's assume that Robert E Lee was a great general and a good Christian man (he wasn't)
Lee presided over a traitorous army that wanted no America left
Lee enslaved people, despite disavowing slavery
Gen. Lee statue comes down in former Confederate capital
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee that towered over Richmond for generations was taken down, cut into pieces and hauled away Wednesday, as the former capital of the Confederacy erased the last of the Civil War figures that once defined its most prominent thoroughfare.
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