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Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career United States Army officer and combat engineer. He became the commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War and a postwar icon of the South's "lost cause." A top graduate of West Point, Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in the U.S. Army for 32 years. He is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.
In early 1861, President Abraham Lincoln invited Lee to take command of the entire Union Army. Lee declined because his home state of Virginia was, despite his wishes, seceding from the Union. When Virginia declared its secession from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state.[1] Lee's eventual role in the newly established Confederacy was to serve as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson Davis. Lee soon emerged as the shrewdest battlefield tactician of the war, after he assumed command of the Confederate eastern army (soon christened "The Army of Northern Virginia") after the wounding of Joseph Johnston at the Battle of Seven Pines. His abilities as a tactician were quickly made evident in his many victories such as the Battle of Fredericksburg (1862), Battle of Chancellorsville (1863), Battle of the Wilderness (1864) Battle of Cold Harbor (1864), Seven Days Battles, and the Second Battle of Bull Run. His strategic vision was more doubtful—his invasions of the North in 1862 and 1863 depended on the conviction that Northern morale was weak, hoping that a handful of rebel victories could shatter the North's willpower and possibly help to gain recognition and aid from European nations through negotiations. After a defeat at Antietam (1862) and disaster at Gettysburg (1863), hopes for victory were dashed and defeat for the South was almost certain. However, due to ineffectual pursuit by the commander of Union forces, Lee escaped after both defeats to Virginia. His decision in 1863 to overrule his advisers and invade the North, rather than protect Vicksburg, proved a major strategic blunder and cost the Confederacy control of its western regions,[2] and a campaign victory was never to be realized after the failed invasion. Nevertheless Lee's brilliant defensive maneuvers stopped the Union offenses one after another, as a series of Union commanders failed to win a single major battle in Virginia.
In the spring of 1864, the new Union commander, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, began a series of campaigns to wear down Lee's army. In the Overland Campaign of 1864 and the Siege of Petersburg in 1864–1865, Lee inflicted heavy casualties on Grant's larger army, but was unable to replace his own losses. In early April 1865, Lee's depleted forces were turned from their entrenchments near the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, and he began a strategic retreat. In the final months of the Civil War, as manpower reserves drained away, Lee adopted a plan to arm slaves to fight on behalf of the Confederacy, but this came too late to change the outcome of the war. Lee's subsequent surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865 represented the loss of only one of the remaining Confederate field armies, but it was a psychological blow from which the South could not recover. By June 1865, all of the remaining Confederate armies had capitulated. After Appomattox, Lee discouraged Southern dissenters from starting a guerrilla campaign to continue the war, and encouraged reconciliation between the North and the South.
Lee's numerous victories against superior forces won him enduring fame as a crafty and daring battlefield tactician, but some of his strategic decisions, such as invading the North in 1862 and 1863, have been criticized by many military historians.
After the war, as a college President, Lee supported President Andrew Johnson's program of Reconstruction and inter-sectional friendship, while opposing the Radical Republican proposals to give freed slaves the vote and take the vote away from ex-Confederates. He urged them to re-think their position between the North and the South, and the reintegration of former Confederates into the nation's political life. Lee became the great Southern hero of the war, and his popularity grew in the North as well after his death in 1870. He remains an iconic figure[3] of American military leadership
USAG Stuttgart celebrated the U.S. Army's 243rd Birthday on Panzer Kaserne on June 14, 2018, with the help of the Exchange, USO, American Red Cross, and more.
Col. Neal A. Corson, garrison commander, provided brief remarks before cutting the cake with Heidi M. Malarchik, deputy to the garrison commander.
Photos by Bardia Khajenoori, USAG Stuttgart Public Affairs.
US soldiers from Bravo Troop 1-71 CAV patrol near Belanday village, Dand district in Kandahar on May 15, 2010. NATO and the United States are deploying thousands of extra soldiers in a strategy designed to bring a swift end to the conflict, with foreign troop numbers in Afghanistan expected to peak at 150,000 in August
There was a section of the fayre dedicated to Army vehicles. There were several here & this one was one of the best on show.
The 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment’s (The Old Guard) June 1, 2016 edition of the free, public, hour-long military pageant Twilight Tattoo commemorated the 25th Anniversary of Desert Storm on Summerall Field in Joint Base Myer Henderson Hall, Va. Hosted by Lt. Gen. Gary H. Cheek, Cheek was a 1980 graduate of the United States Military Academy and a 1993 graduate of the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS). Known as the “Jedi Knights”, SAMS graduates played a pivotal role in Desert Storm. (U.S. Army Photos by Spc. Brandon Dyer)
Boxers from Bristol Boxing Gym, including world champ, Lee Selby, participating in training courtesy of the army
The Royal Navy rugby team played the Army at Twickenham rugby ground at fought valiantly with determination, strength and skill but were thwarted by the army team losing 27-11.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared opened, the Sri Lanka's largest military hospital, built at a cost of 1542.4 million rupees, in Narahenpitya this (5) morning. The hospital can accommodate more than thousand patients per day in the OPD itself,
ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අතින්, ශ්රීලංකාවේ විශාලතම හමුදා රෝහල නාරාහේන්පිටදී අද (05) පෙරවරුවේ, විවෘත විය. මෙම රෝහල ඉදිකිරිම සඳහා රුපියල් මිලියන 1542කට ආසන්න මුදලක් වැයකර ඇති අතර රෝගීන් දහසකට එකවර සත්කාර සේවා සැපයිය හැකියි.
ஜனாதிபதி மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ அவர்களினால், இன்று முற்பகல், நாராஹேன்பிட்டியில் புதிதாக அமைக்கப்பட்ட இராணுவ மருத்துவமனை திறந்துவைக்கப்பட்டது.
(Photos by: Nishanka De Silva)
A 10 in german chocolate cake covered in white buttercream icing, accented with brown icing and a picture of theArmy insignia
PB Dragon is the site of a half finished Iraqi power generation plant. The russians were building it and abandoned it when the war kicked off. It was very kewl to stay overnight in the large tower and wake-up to the sight of the Euphrates .
Dutch Soldiers from the elite 11 Luchtmobiele Brigade during the large scale Air Assault Exercise Falcon Prepare – 25th April 2012
Photos: Hille Hillinga
PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan–Soldiers with 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, prepare to fire mortar rounds at a suspected insurgent facility from the Omna District Center, Paktika province, Afghanistan, June 18
Twenty-seven Soldiers from the 27th Brigade Combat Team, CENTCOM Materiel Recovery Element, currently working with the 401st AFSB received combat patches in a ceremony at the AFSBn-Bagram, 401st AFSB headquarters May 12. Soldiers who participate in combat operations are entitled to wear the combat patch of the unit they serve with or with another unit they previously served with in combat operations.
About the 401st:
The 401st Army field Support Brigade provides Soldiers, Sailors, Airman, and Marines, the tools and resources necessary to complete the mission. If they shoot, drive it, fly it, wear it, eat it or communicate with it, the 401st helps provide it. The brigade assists coalition partners with many of their logistical and sustainment needs. The brigade also handles the responsible disposition of equipment in Afghanistan to support evolving missions. We are the single link between Warfighters in the field, and working through Army Sustainment Command, we leverage Army Materiel Command’s worldwide Materiel Enterprise to develop, deliver, and sustain materiel to ensure a dominant joint force for the U.S. and our Allies.
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Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Divisions 1st Brigade Combat Team question locals in a mock village during a joint operational access exercise June 27, 2011, at Fort Bragg, N.C. The three-day training event is designed to help prepare the paratroopers for their next real-world assignment.
The 2021 U.S. Army Small Arms Championships kicked off its first official match today. Match 8 is an iron sight rifle match in combat gear. Soldiers shoot 10 rounds in 90 seconds in the prone from both 400 and 300 yards. Competitors then shoot another 10 rounds in 90 seconds from the kneeling/squatting position from both 200 and 100 yards.
The Match 3 course of fire included four pistol stages, for a total of 40 rounds, from the 25-yard line. Each stage required a total of 10 rounds, but were fired in two groups of five with a magazine change in the middle. Stage One was a slow fire of 60 seconds in the standing position. Stage Two was fired in a total of 45 seconds, with five rounds shot in both the kneeling and then the prone positions. Stage Three was a timed fire of 25 seconds from the standing position. And Stage Four was a rapid fire of 15 seconds from the standing position.
The Match 5 is a pistol match consisting of four stages, for a total of 40 rounds. Stage One was a standing slow fire of 10 rounds from two 5-round magazines within 25 seconds at the 35-yard line. Stage Two was a standing slow fire of 10 rounds from two 5-round magazines within 20 seconds at the 25-yard line. Stage 3 was a standing rapid fire of 10 rounds from two 5-round magazines within 15 seconds at the 15-yard line. Stage Four was a standing rapid fire of 10 rounds from two 5-round magazines within 10 seconds at the 10-yard line.
Taken from my Basic Training / MP School book: Morrison (left) and me (right) walking after our time in the gas chamber. I'm smiling because I got to come out of the chamber first - my gas mask wouldn't seal so I was getting a good whiff of CS gas before everyone else. By the time Morrison came out, I had gotten it out of my system.
U.S Army Soldiers from Active Duty, National Guard, and Reserve forces take part in a field training exercise during the 1-254th Regional Training Institute's Infantry Advanced Leaders Course 22-02 on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, April 9, 2022. The Infantry Advanced Leaders Course is a branch-specific course that provides Soldiers selected for promotion to Staff Sgt. an opportunity to enhance leadership, technical skill, tactical expertise and experience needed to lead squad-size units. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)
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Exhibition," The Ancient China and the Terracotta Army," in the central hall of the Cultural Center La Moneda Palace in Chile's capital Santiago.
Santiago of Chile
The exhibition is organized by the Chilean Cultural Ministry with the collaboration of Chinese cultural authorities from Shaanxi Province.
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The Terracotta Army or the "Terracotta Warriors and Horses" is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.
The figures, dating from approximately the late third century BCE, were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province. The figures vary in height according to their roles, with the tallest being the generals. The figures include warriors, chariots and horses. Current (2007) estimates are that in the three pits containing the Terracotta Army there were more than 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses, and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which are still buried in the pits nearby Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum. Other terracotta non-military figures were also found in other pits and they include officials, acrobats, strongmen, and musicians.