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Sto caricando le informazioni... Yorktown's Civil War Siege: Drums Along the Warwick (Civil War Series)di John V. Quarstein
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On 4 April 1862, Major General George McClellan marched his 121,500-strong Army of the Potomac from Fort Monroe toward Richmond. Blocking his path were Major General John B. Magruder's Warwick-Yorktown Line fortifications and the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia. Despite outnumbering Magruder almost four to one, McClellan was tricked by Magruder's bluff of strength and halted his advance. Yorktown, the scene of Washington's 1781 victory over Cornwallis, was once again besieged. It was the Civil War's first siege and lasted for twenty-nine terrible days. Just as McClellan was ready to bombard Yorktown, the Confederates slipped away because of his delays, McClellan lost the opportunity to quickly capture Richmond and end the war. Historians John V. Quarstein and J. Michael Moore chronicle the Siege of Yorktown and explore its role in the 1862 Peninsula Campaign and the final battles surrounding Richmond. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)973.7History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil WarClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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I’m not one of those “maps are no good” reviewers, but in this case, they truly are inadequate. The only modern maps are two schematic diagrams of the Dam No 1 skirmish. There are numerous contemporary maps, all of them nearly illegible and useless for following the text. I would expect at least one detailed map of the fortifications in a book about a siege.
It can be used in an in depth study of the Peninsula Campaign, but the material is no more than you will get from any number of books that cover the ironclads and the campaign in general. ( )