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| Topic Started: Sep 22 2009, 03:13 PM (680 Views) | |
| Sedulius | Sep 24 2009, 04:21 PM Post #51 |
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You can't say James Shields was not a good commander based off of one of General Banks's defeats. If you want an idea of how good a commander Shields was, you have to study his actions in both the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War, and study why those battles went that way. Shields knew what he was doing, but he had an idiot for a superior when he was facing Jackson. He wasn't being supplied, and his orders were over-ridden. How the hell can you win in such a situation? The fact that he beat Jackson once, that it was because of a trap he had set, and that he was the only man to ever beat Jackson shows he was a good commander. That he got wounded in so many engagements, that he led from the front with his men, that he set up several Irish communities, and that he was the only man to ever be a US Senator for three different states makes him a hero. Why else would Illinois persist to have him represent their state in the National Statuary hall, and why else would Irish senators have so tirelessly defended him? Shields's fame has passed, but that's no reason to dishonor him. I was particularly insulted that you would so quickly insult my ancestor based off of so little knowledge. |
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| Menhad | Sep 24 2009, 05:53 PM Post #52 |
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ET2(IDW)
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Screw West point :dry: |
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| Deleted User | Sep 24 2009, 07:02 PM Post #53 |
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whats wrong with west point? |
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| New Harumf | Sep 25 2009, 10:17 AM Post #54 |
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Bloodthirsty Unicorn
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He's a Squid. |
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| Sedulius | Sep 25 2009, 11:56 AM Post #55 |
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Field Marshal
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Ditto. Screw West Point. We've been over this. Modern-day West Point produces stick-up-their-ass officers. |
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