Victory against boko haram. And two astronauts set off for the longestever stay on the International Space station. The Saudiled Coalition has bombed yemen for the third successor successive night. They struck the capital of sanaa and the struck the oilproducing region in the south occupied by houthi fighters. They were attacked by the coalition. Now the area is under the control of the yemeni army. We continue, we will continue to parking lot the target the movement until we can clear all the area they are controlling now. Yemens ousted president has called for a ceasefire. Ali Abdullah Saleh said he wants to return to u. N. Brokered peace attacks. The United States said it does not want an openended war in yemen. Here is how they answered our correspondent Kimberly Halkett when she asked if the u. S. Found itself in a difficult position supporting the saudiled campaign. Weve seen the military take over in aden, which forced president hady to flee. And in that situation, they would ta
Screeria nigeria. Thank you. We recently visited virginia for a closing of the Longwood University and courthouse National Historical park. Next tracy chornault talks about the long standoff between lee and grant and the entrenchments outside petersburg and the final battles in 186 a. 5. He discusses the importance of supply lines to both armies and the disparity between the access in food and ammunition. This talk is about an hour. We have programs out there f you didnt get one in the mail pick up a program. Im going give an abbreviated interduction of the bios we have in the program. Trait tracy has a ba in history from avert college in danville and he has worked for the National Park service, first part time and then full Time Starting in 1991 at apamatics courthouse and since 1997 at Petersburg National battlefield. And as patrick mentioned tracy is the author of one of the volumes in the howard, virginia regimental history series. This deals with the 18th and 20th battalions of he
Supply lines to both armies and the disparity between the access in food and ammunition. This talk is about an hour. We have programs out there f you didnt get one in the mail pick up a program. Im going give an abbreviated interduction of the bios we have in the program. Trait tracy has a ba in history from avert college in danville and he has worked for the National Park service, first part time and then full Time Starting in 1991 at apamatics courthouse and since 1997 at Petersburg National battlefield. And as patrick mentioned tracy is the author of one of the volumes in the howard, virginia regimental history series. This deals with the 18th and 20th battalions of hefry artillery. He is also past president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable, Historical Society and his talk today sont fall ofis on the fall of petersburg. So please welcome tracy chenault. Good evening. As most of you know me realize im a big baseball guy. And so when pat asked me to come speak on friday evening a
Not a good place to be in when youre an officer in the army. That being said warren tends to not want to follow orders as grant gives them. Warren tends to want to interpret orders to the benefit of his men only do what he thinks is going to preserve his fifth corps. Thats not how grant wages warfare and it is certainly not how sheridan wages warfare. Sheridan instantly balks knowing that some of these are warrens men. When sheridan is told that he has to use the fifth corps as his support led by general warren, that order is instantly followed up by general grant with if you have any problems with the Corps Commander relieve him of one of the Division Commanders which you would say pretty much puts the writing on the wall that warren is not going to make it through the battle. Warren, as i kind of eluded to is late getting there through no fault of his own. But as the battle is ending, he will literally have as the sunsetting is his horse shot from underneath him. As he picks himself
U. S. Brace for life against arctic temperatures. Reporter im barbara with the headlines from europe. Including. Taking evidence that shows that crimes have been committed. Reporter lawyers outline their case against the military in london. Reporter green is th the new black cab. It gets an environmental new year makeover. Iraqs Prime Minister has called on people in the city of fallujah to drive out what he calls terrorists. Alqaedalinked fighters belonging to a group have taken control of parts of both fallujah and ramadi. Iraqs army has pictures of fierce fighting. The military is preparing to retake fallujah. Many people have abandoned homes and headed to a mainly shia area that is seen relatively safe. There has been an agreement between the tribes that would draw the army from the city, this is due to information about the isil control of the desert there. The isil rebels will try to bring back to the cities of ramadi and fallujah. The army has withdrawn from the cities of ramadi