calvegas04's latest activity

Mods - delete if you don't like. My thought was to go to a single thread for these discussions rather than jumping from one to the...

No they didn't. They underestimated Washington and the commitment of the people. If they had committed, it would probably had been...

I know they were used in history by the Roman's and such, even in the movies Gladiator and The Eagle you can see them used. It seems...

I don't think the South was industrialized enough to have been able to defeat any of the major European armies. It would have...

Did someone say, Germans?

Actually, rather common, though not exactly like their use in the CW or WWI of course. I had to Google this to learn, but... Trench...

Also interested in the use of trenches towards the end of the CW. That has to be the first wide use of trenches in any war right?

This might literally be the first non-football related topic that I can be interested in reading LOL

From past conversations I expected this to just be a southern bashing jaunt. I’m glad to see it’s been an attempt to truly examine the...

By the 1860s neither the US, nor major European powers were capable of projecting enough power across the Atlantic to be able to defeat...

The south had some great generals, hard to say they were the best in the world or not. I'm not super familiar with European conflicts in...

Saw this fun post on Twitter today and the comments are on fire. Curious what you all think about either the US (Union) and the...

They forgot to schedule one, time to wet the bed

Miss you