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Many people are aware that Jeb Stuart was a famous cavalry general who rode for the Confederacy. Yet, how did this twenty-nine-year-old former US Army lieutenant become the 1860s version of a media sensation? At the beginning of June 1862, George McClellan s huge Union Army stood poised to decimate the Confederate capital of Richmond. The city faced chaos as thousands of civilians fled. Confederate Army commander Robert E. Lee wanted to launch his own attack, but he needed to know what stood on McClellan s right flank. John Fox s new book, Stuart s Finest Hour, uses numerous eyewitness account
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Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.), who reigned as king of Macedonia for only thirteen years, set a flame of conquest that introduced the dynamism of Hellenism to the Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and South Asian worlds. Re-creating their ossified cultures, he established a standard of leadership and military conquest that the most successful of Roman emperors, medieval knights, and steppe barbarians would never truly match. Julius Caesar wept that he could not surpass Alexander, while Napoleon could only dream of such invincibility. Alexander had the great fortune to be born the able son o
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Washington --- George --- 1732-1799 --- Military leadership
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Washington --- George --- 1732-1799 --- Military leadership
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Caesar, Julius --- Vercingetorix, --- Military leadership. --- Rome --- History.
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Christian women saints --- Joan, --- Joan, --- Military leadership.
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Great Britain --- Antiquities --- Celtic --- Caesar --- Julius --- Military leadership
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Grant, Ulysses S. --- Military leadership. --- Vicksburg (Miss.) --- History
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The most comprehensive portrait of noteworthy public figures can generally be seen in their personal letters and journal entries. Lincoln's wartime correspondence is no exception, and the letters he penned to his Civil War generals-through one of the most critical episodes in American history-are of singular importance.While Abraham Lincoln is responsible for a significant body of correspondence, this is the first time an editor has focused principally on the strategic and analytical comments to His Generals during the course of the American Civil War.
Presidents --- Lincoln, Abraham, --- Military leadership. --- United States --- History
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