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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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General William C. Westmoreland has long been derided for his failed strategy of ""attrition"" in the Vietnam War. Historians have argued that Westmoreland's strategy placed a premium on high ""body counts"" through a ""big unit war"" that relied almost solely on search and destroy missions. Many believe the U.S. Army failed in Vietnam because of Westmoreland's misguided and narrow strategy In a groundbreaking reassessment of American military strategy in Vietnam, Gregory Daddis overturns conventional wisdom and shows how Westmoreland did indeed develop a comprehensive campaign which included

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Campaigns. --- Westmoreland, William C. --- Military leadership. --- Westmoreland, William Childs,

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Command of troops --- Generals --- Patronage, Political --- History --- Lincoln, Abraham, --- Military leadership. --- United States. --- United States --- Campaigns.

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George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison details the events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief Tanacharison, which led to, as Horace Walpole quipped, Washington firing ""a volley in the backwoods of America that set the world on fire."" The book explores the history of the French and English rivalry for the trans-Allegheny territory and its impact on the Indians in the area. It shows how Washin

Washington, George, --- Washington, George, --- Relations with Indians. --- Military leadership. --- United States --- Pennsylvania --- History --- Causes. --- History --- Campaigns.

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Hundred Years' War --- 1339-1453 --- Juvenile fiction --- Du Guesclin --- Bertrand --- comte de Longueville --- approximately 1320-1380 --- Military leadership