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The battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, 1862-63, were
remarkable in several respects. Both revealed the problems of
mounting a serious attack at night and provided the first examples
of the now-familiar trench warfare. Fredericksburg featured street
fighting and river crossings under fire. Chancellorsville was
marked by Stonewall Jackson's death and the rare instance of
mounted cavalry attacking infantry. In addition, the latter battle
also demonstrated in striking fashion the profound influence of the
commander on the battle. The Union committed more soldiers,
supplies, money, and better equipment than did the Confederacy, and
yet Lee won.
Eyewitness accounts by battle participants make these guides an
invaluable resource for travelers and nontravelers who want a
greater understanding of five of the most devastating yet
influential years in our nation's history. Explicit directions to
points of interest and maps--illustrating the action and showing
the detail of troop position, roads, rivers, elevations, and tree
lines as they were 130 years ago--help bring the battles to life.
In the field, these guides can be used to recreate each battle's
setting and proportions, giving the reader a sense of the tension
and fear each soldier must have felt as he faced his enemy.
As Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman prepared their
inexperienced troops for a massive offensive by an equally green
Confederate army in April 1862, the outcome of the Civil War was
still very much in doubt. For two of the most chaotic and ravaging
days of the War, the Union forces counterattacked and fended off
the Rebels. Losses were great--more than 20,000 casualties out of
100,000 Union and Confederate troops. But out of the struggle,
Grant and Sherman forged their own union that would be a major
factor in the Union Army's final victory. For the Confederates,
Shiloh was a devastating disappointment. By the time the siege was
over, they had lost both the battle and one of their ablest
commanders, Albert Sidney Johnston.
Eyewitness accounts by battle participants make these guides an
invaluable resource for travelers and nontravelers who want a
greater understanding of five of the most devastating yet
influential years in our nation's history. Explicit directions to
points of interest and maps--illustrating the action and showing
the detail of troop position, roads, rivers, elevations, and tree
lines as they were 130 years ago--help bring the battles to life.
In the field, these guides can be used to recreate each battle's
setting and proportions, giving the reader a sense of the tension
and fear each soldier must have felt as he faced his enemy.
Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia, initiated the
Seven Years' War in 1756, outfought the formidable French, Russian,
and Austrian armies aligned against him, and established Prussia as
a major power, thereby decisively influencing the next two
centuries of European history. He was also a brilliant military
thinker whose observations arose from extensive battlefield
experience.
This volume presents a balanced selection from Frederick's
writings on strategy, tactics, and mobility; the problems of
logistics and a two-front war; the combined use of infantry,
cavalry, and artillery; the history of the Prussian army; the
critical battles of the Seven Years' War; generalship as an art;
and much more. A majority of this material is translated here for
the first time in English and available nowhere else. The result is
an invaluable glimpse into the inner thoughts of a military
genius.
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