Top 25 Greatest Tactical Feats

[BOTP]

I'm sorry too as I thought that there's no other way to figure out this, as the times are different in different zones. So BOTP if you posted it first I'm sorry...

no need for apologies, I generally post one thing on ones site for feedback, then revise it and post it on another, that way my work is more feasible.

 

[BOTP]

Finally, I probably wouldn't include Nashville just because there wasn't much of Hood's army -- and even less competent commanders -- left after Franklin. But such is the nature of differences of opinion.

Thomas Buell ("Warrior Generals," pg. xxxii): "The Battle of Nashville was the paradigm of the Civil War, for it pitted the army of the future against the army of the past."

^^^BTW. same can be said for either Crecy or Agincourt^^^

Buell, pg. 388: "When the Tennessee campaign ended, Thomas had performed the unsurpassed masterpiece of theater command and control of the Civil War. So modern in concept, so sweeping in scope, it would become a model for strategic maneuver in twentieth-century warfare."

Gen. Cullum, in speaking of the battle of Nashville, says: "The best tactical battle of the war, so decisive in results, was the last and crowning glory of Thomas'

 

[johnny felipe]

this forum is really informational

 

[Flying Pig]

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