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| Topic | Why is Robert E Lee so overrated |
| KILBOTz 09/10/21 2:09:48 PM #23: | pogo_rabid posted... false, they wanted to hold out long enough to get enough international support so they could force the union into a situation where they could parlay into getting independence. Remember the north had ~4x the population of the south at the time, there was no real way for them to slug it out long term with the more industrialized and well funded north. They were looking for large wins on the battlefield to sway international opinion. Gettysburg happened because the CSA was on the offensive. They never should have stepped foot into union territory. They could have gone for other ways to sway opinion but their diplomats sucked, their government was a joke with no centralization or power. if they had a working government with a meritocratic appointments and didn't waste the early war holding off exports before the union blockade happened, they would have had a much better chance than what they did. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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