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Offensive (Military term)...is a military operation that seeks through aggressive projection of armed force to occupy territory, gain an objective or achieve some larger strategic, operational or tactical goal.
Early conducted an Offensive operation in 1864.
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Again, you don't really seem to understand the distinction.
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What is it with you and your hard on for the Wehrmacht?
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Just an example. The Greeks put up heroic resistance at Marathon, and the Romans put up heroic resistance at Alesia. The Red Army heroically resisted the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad, etc. Churchill heroically resisted German pressure in the black year between France's capitulation and the USSR's entry into the war. The Wehrmacht is just an example of heroism on the part of evil ****s (to a lesser degree, so is the example of the Red Army).
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Ah yes, a book based on Monday Quarterbacking.
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I had thought you might just dismiss it.
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You got the official figures wrong. Not I.
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If 25,000 as opposed to 23,000 matters that much to you, you have no argument from me. I was merely saying that the figures I'd seen indicated 23,000.
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Personally the start of the end of the war happened at Chancellorsville. Losing Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson would be like the Allies losing Patton in the middle of WW2. If (thats a big if) Jackson was in command of Second Corps during the march north.. Gettysburg would have been a very very different battle. Units the Jackson commanded did most of the hard fighting late the first day through to the 3rd. Mainly on the Right Flank (area called Culp's Hill) which was the end of the line.
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This after you went to great lengths to explain how Gettysburg did not matter. I personally agree with you, in that Chancellorsville was the beginning of the end, but I would compare Chancellorsville to Stalingrad (the beginning of the end of the Wehrmacht) and Gettysburg/Vicksburg to Kursk, which really and truly sealed the Germans' fate.
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I am forgetting the name of the battle that happened after Fredericksburg. It was the one in which Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded.
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Chancellorsville.
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If Jackson had been successful in surrounding the Union forces the Confederacy might have won the war or at least established a peace treaty granting the South the right of succession.
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I would disagree with you there...the North simply had too much weight compared to the South. Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation really ended the possibility of European intervention, with which the CSA probably would have won.