Park. It is little under an hour. [applause] thank you david. Can everyone hear me ok . We have watched the armys of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersburg to the surrendered appomattox courthouse. Now im going to take a detour. We are going to make a sharp turn south, and were going to turn back the clock. South, and were going to turn back the clock. Were going to go back to december of 1864. And we are going to follow this man, general william t sherman. And his progress in what he believes in hopes will be his final campaign of the war. Sherman grant are pursuing the grand strategy that they formulated in march of 1864. In cincinnati, ohio. The idea was to keep the armys in the east and in the west, the confederate armys so busy that they cannot reinforce each other. And i have a repeat fiasco of the battle of chickamauga. The strategy is working. Slowly, but inexorably. While grant keeps lees army bottled up around the trenches of petersbur
Captures atlanta. Thomas crushes the army of tennessee, the confederacys secondlargest field army, and one week later, general sherman completes his march from atlanta to the sea by presenting the city of Savannah Georgia to president Abraham Lincoln as a christmas gift. Now, sherman is looking ahead to his next campaign. He is going to make a march through the carolinas, moving his army group northward to richmond, virginia. There he will join forces with general grant, and together, they will crush lees army and bring the war to a victorious conclusion. Sherman plans to launch his campaign and january of 1865. But torrential winter rain prevents that from happening. He is forced to delay his campaign to the following month. In the meantime, general grant decides to launch a second expedition to capture fort fisher, and close wilmington North Carolina, the last blockade running seaport the confederacy and in effect close the lifeline of the confederacy as it is called. The First Exped
Wilkinson. On the face i emphasize. What else can be said for a man who combined his carrier of United States army his career of United States army with agent 13 in the spanish secret service. 11 years he commended the nations forces. He patrolled its frontiers. For most of that time he also fed americas military secrets to the largest power in the hemisphere. If spain had acted more vigorously on the warnings he passed on they would have captured the lewis and Clark Expedition and put a halt to westward exploration. They did heed his advice about fortifying the border with taxes. They cap the United States out of texas for about a generation. He was an effective agent, it has to be said. Then there is his reputation as a man who founded the spanish conspiracy designed to split away kentucky and tennessee from the rest of the country. A guy like that, he makes a snake seem like a model arrested two, millions look good compared with wilkinson. And, i referred to him as an artist in trea
We begin now with some stern words over ukraine. Ukrainian Prime Minister accusing russia of wanting to start another world war iii if speaking world war. By russia on ukraines territory. Will lead to military conflict in europe. The world has not yet forgotten world war ii. A russia already wants to start world war iii. Highnsions are running east of ukraine as the government is carrying out what it calls an antiterrorist operation. Program russian separatists have seized have seized control of several cities. We go to Douglas Herbert who is covering events for us now. Youre just north of the eastern city. You have seen Ukrainian Special forces. Describe for us the Current Situation at this hour. Hour is really in the past that we came upon the first sign that we can see of this antiterrorist operation in kiev. We came upon a large unit of Ukrainian Special forces. These were highly disciplined soldiers that the military camouflaged. Their fingers on the trigger. These were soldiers t
For now i just wanted to express on behalf of the American People our deepest sympathies for the incredible and tragic loss thats taken place. And then he observed a moment of silence. President pac thanked obama and said the sympathy and support of the American People are encouraging for south koreans. Thens the two leaders talked for about an hour and a half. They have held a news conference. Topping the agenda was north korea. Leaders in the reclusive nation are threatening to conduct another nuclear test. Obama and pak announced they have agreed to step up pressure on pyongyang to realize a nuclearfree korean peninsula. Obama said he can never accept the norths provocation and strongly criticized leaders in pyongyang saying those actions will cause nothing but isolation. He reaffirmed the u. S. Commitment to its alliance with south korea and he promised to strengthen Missile Defense systems. South korean officials warn north korea could conduct a nuclear test at any time. New satel