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TexanCowboy · November 11, 2009, 03:50:03 PM

1864-Petersburg or that thing during World War I?

Walter · November 11, 2009, 03:54:44 PM

Hawthorn Ridge mine. July 1, 1916.

TexanCowboy · November 11, 2009, 03:56:59 PM

Ahh.. Looks like the tunnel mine from Petersburg. A sorry event. Burnside should have been executed.

Walter · November 11, 2009, 04:03:56 PM

No success in 1916 either. Just failure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8YfJmwY5Uo

ctwaterman · November 11, 2009, 11:25:40 PM

I just knew someone was going to post the British minning of the German ridge that overlooked their trenches. It wasnt just hawthrone ridge but a whole series of massive mines.

Charles

Jefgte · November 12, 2009, 01:49:43 AM

Population increase 2%
Civilian bonus + 75$ (That's Ichu gold mine !!!)

Thanks for Peru.

I think that NUS (Argentina & Paraguay) population increase by 2% too.

Jef ;)

ciders · November 12, 2009, 01:54:02 AM

I think they are many refugees in the world. NUS will be very very happy to receive all these people. :D

Walter · November 12, 2009, 02:32:00 AM

QuoteI just knew someone was going to post the British minning of the German ridge that overlooked their trenches.

What? Gut feeling? :)

QuoteIt wasnt just hawthrone ridge but a whole series of massive mines.

True but the hawthrone ridge mine was one of the three larger mines used and it is famous for the recordings made of ithe blast ("one of the most famous pieces of film footage of World War I" according to wiki).

Actually looking at what wiki indicates, it looks to me that Meade and Grant are the ones who should be shot, not Burnside. Burnside was just incompetent. Meade and Grant were the ones who changed the plan and created the mess which Burnside had to sort out (what he couldn't do as he was, as I said, incompetent).

Battle of the Crater and the Hawthorn Ridge share the similarity that the plan was changed, resulting in failure.

Kaiser Kirk · November 12, 2009, 09:41:35 AM

Quote from: Walter on November 12, 2009, 02:32:00 AM
Actually looking at what wiki indicates, it looks to me that Meade and Grant are the ones who should be shot, not Burnside. Burnside was just incompetent. Meade and Grant were the ones who changed the plan and created the mess which Burnside had to sort out (what he couldn't do as he was, as I said, incompetent).

Odd, I used to know the Civil War rather well, but apparently forgot Meade's role in changing the troops assigned, I thought that was just Grant. Earlier he had essentially been running the Army of the Potomac as three seperate commands he coordinated- Meade, Burnside (senior to Meade), Sheridan (Cav). Which worked out so well in the Wilderness Campaign....
Anyhow, Burnside was promoted well above his level of competence, should have been left a Brigade or Division commander. But in his defense, when he was promoted in 1862 he told Lincoln he wasn't up to the task.
Then came Fredericksburg, where after the debacle of Marye's Heights he considered leading attacks on Day 2 but was talked out of it.