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The capture of Chattanooga was the Union’s most important gain of 1863. Though overshadowed by Gettysburg and Vicksburg, and marred by a subsequent bloody defeat, it was a major strategic victory won through brilliant operational maneuver.
OTD the Chickamauga Campaign began.🧵
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Maneuver in the Mountains: Opening Moves of the Chickamauga Campaign
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A day late for St. Crispin's Day - on Agincourt, and how occasionally something new appears under the tactical sun (yet that is hardly to Henry's credit):
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Fantastic photos of WWII and Cold War sub pens.
One abandoned naval tunnel in Dalmatia is named "Hitler's eyes".
Situated near Šibenik in Croatia, German Wehrmacht started to build it in late 1943 to protect torpedo boats from Allied air attacks.
After WWII, communist Yugoslavia finished it.
It was named like this by local fishermen because looking at it from afar it resembles a human eye and due to its WWII connection with Germany.
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...and it breaks through! Washington's right routs under the combined pressure of the Hessians and Scots, and soon the entire American line collapses.
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Cannae is wrongly said to be one of those battles that perfectly embodies a specific tactic—in its case a double envelopment. In fact, Hannibal’s tactics were singularly unlike anything before or after.
With one notable exception: the Battle of Agincourt.
An orderly advance to the sound of drum and fife against the din of constant gunfire - it stirs the blood.
...and it breaks through! Washington's right routs under the combined pressure of the Hessians and Scots, and soon the entire American line collapses.
It was a fantastic event, I'd never seen a full reenactment before. 800 reenactors took part, many of them camping out in the cold. It will go on Sunday too if you're in the NYC/Westchester area: visitwestchesterny.com/250/r…
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Trafalgar is not the only significant milhist anniversary today: OTD in 1600 was Sekigahara, the largest battle on mainland Japan that inaugurated the long peace of the Edo Period.
New Dispatch: A Field Tour of Sekigahara, based on a recent trip to the battlefield.
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Trafalgar is not the only significant milhist anniversary today: OTD in 1600 was Sekigahara, the largest battle on mainland Japan that inaugurated the long peace of the Edo Period.
New Dispatch: A Field Tour of Sekigahara, based on a recent trip to the battlefield.
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Meanwhile Ieyasu's triumph cut short these tactical developments as Japan enjoyed a long period of domestic tranquility without serious external threats - leading to the dynamics of military stagnation that Andrade describes so well in the Gunpowder Age.
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