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Question: Which battle would you most want to study intensely?
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Trafalgar (1805)		  
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Gettysburg  (1863)		  
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Stalingrad (1942-43)		  
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Hastings (1066)		  
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Teutoburg Forest (9)		  
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« on: May 16, 2008, 09:29:57 PM »
I promised some of the bigger, most decisive ones.  I'm a Gettysburg guy but I collect Civil War artifacts and documents, so you can hardly blame me.
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« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2008, 09:30:57 PM »
Gettysburg
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« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2008, 09:31:03 PM »
Stalingrad, by far.
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« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2008, 10:00:47 PM »
Teutoberg Forest, the greatest of the Three Woes of Augustus.  Damn Hermann.
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« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2008, 10:03:30 PM »
Tuetonberger Wald. I wonder how a few militias were able to destroy three whole brigades of Roman Soldier and I wonder what would have been if the natives didn't do as well as they did...
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« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2008, 10:38:12 AM »
Quote from: Hantytown on May 16, 2008, 10:03:30 PM
Tuetonberger Wald. I wonder how a few militias were able to destroy three whole brigades of Roman Soldier and I wonder what would have been if the natives didn't do as well as they did...

Short answer to the first part: the three Roman legions (roughly 12,000 soldiers) were marching in single file (stupid Varus) through a dark, unfamiliar, rainy forest, the ground muddy, with enemy soldiers to every side, so they couldn't attempt any sort of defense whatsoever.
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« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2008, 10:53:37 PM »
Stalingrad, with Teutoburg close behind.
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« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2008, 11:55:19 PM »
Rude of you to group such great battles in one thread, voted Trafalgar because no one else had.
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« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2008, 07:09:54 AM »
Stalingrad walks it.
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« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2008, 07:13:15 AM »

Not sure if "walks" is quite the right word Tongue
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« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2008, 08:40:05 AM »
Quote from: The Man From G.O.P. on May 18, 2008, 11:55:19 PM
Rude of you to group such great battles in one thread, voted Trafalgar because no one else had.

I was pm'd and asked to pick some pivotal ones! LOL

Gettysburg here.  But yeah -- all of 'em if I could.
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