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Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...
The talk, "George Gordon Meade and the Gettysburg Campaign," took place during an event commemorating 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, sponsored by Gettysburg National Military Park ...
Allen Guelzo spoke at an event honoring the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. He talked about Union General George Meade's decisions at Williamsport, Maryland, after the Army of the ...
Fought for three days, from July 1 to July 3, General George Meade, who had taken control of the Army of the Potomac just three days earlier, defeated Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s forces.
Meade, by contrast, insisted on disciplined staff work, prioritization and teamwork: By Gettysburg, the Army of the Potomac was on the verge of becoming the first truly modern military organization.
George Meade News from United Press International.In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq War, missiles fired from the USS Vincennes brought down an Iranian airliner in the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 ...
WILKES-BARRE — On the eve of the one of the most critical events in the nation’s history, General George Gordon Meade was ordered to assume command of the Army and move against the ...
Meade was fortunate to have with him at Gettysburg such competent and brave officers as Reynolds, John Buford, Winfield Hancock, Strong Vincent, George Custer, and Joshua Chamberlain.
If Union Gen. George Gordon Meade had had his way, the battle that changed the course of the Civil War would have taken place on Maryland soil. A fight in a Pennsylvania crossroads town called ...
PHILADELPHIA -- A museum in Philadelphia will once again showcase the head of Old Baldy, the horse Gen. George Meade rode during many of the Civil War's most famous battles.