Going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. Today well talk about a Campaign Going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. We will talk about the peninsula and the seven Days Campaign today. It starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. And it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. The Union Strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d. C. , if the Union General George Mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. We cant know for sure. It is speculation. It could very well be that the confederacy decides, ok, they took our capital but well keep on fighting. The war has been going on about a year. If the confederacy loses their National Capital within a year it very well could be th
Welcome to the National Civil war museum in harrisburg, pennsylvania. We opened in 2001. We were one of the first museums to talk about the entire civil war under one roof. The mission of the museum is to educate on the civil war, the causes leading up to the civil war, the war years, and the years after the war, including reconstruction and the lives of the veterans who far during the civil war, including the fraternal organizations that they belonged to. When you first come into the museum, the first galleries he addresses the causes of the war. Just beyond that, you have an exhibit gallery that talks about slavery during the war. The on that, we have galleries the talk about the first shots of the war am a down in fort sumter in north carolina. And the making of the armies. This museum talks about the entire war come all the various battles, the politics behind the war. So it really gives a really good general overview of what happened prior to the civil war, during the civil war, a
Welcome to the National Civil war museum in harrisburg, pennsylvania. We opened in 2001. We were one of the first museums to talk about the entire civil war under one roof. The mission of the museum is to educate on the civil war, the causes leading up to the civil war, the war years, and the years after the war, including reconstruction and the lives of the veterans who far during the civil war, including the fraternal organizations that they belonged to. When you first come into the museum, the first galleries he addresses the causes of the war. Just beyond that, you have an exhibit gallery that talks about slavery during the war. The on that, we have galleries the talk about the first shots of the war am a down in fort sumter in north carolina. And the making of the armies. This museum talks about the entire war come all the various battles, the politics behind the war. So it really gives a really good general overview of what happened prior to the civil war, during the civil war, a
Nonlifethreatening injuries. Two dogs were rescued. Two other pets died. The news that stellan was playing with a lighter deepens the sadness here. Heartbreaking to hear. Im just so sorry for the family. Its certainly a shock. Reporter Fairfax County firefighters returned today to canvass the neighborhood, asking each homeowner if they have working smoke detectors and urging them to have a frank conversation with their children about playing with fire. We try to hit everything we can possibly think of to give the citizens their best shot of avoiding any type of bad emergency. Reporter people who live in this lorton neighborhood have started a gofundme page to help pay funeral expenses for little stellan. Thats the latest from lorton. Jim, back to you. Tha six months after a murder in the district, police say they have arrested a suspect. Police arrested 46yearold herman cook yesterday. Hes accused of shooting another man behind the Recreation Center on Georgia Avenue back in august. Dr
Prof. Coombs all right. Good day gentlemen. We have talked about up to this point, the development of a regional basis of the different colonies of english america. What i want to do today is take a step back, more of an imperial approach and talk about the maturation of the english empire. You might be curious about the date. It doesnt say 16071713, and hopefully the reason for that will become clear over the course of this lecture. As a point of departure, most people may think about english mainlandparticularly north america, Something Like this image is what comes to mind. The whole coastline filled in with colonies from massachusetts and maine in the north to georgia and the south, large and expensive. About with respect to other empires in north america, maps are dispersive. Arguments, assertions of pretensions of claims to territory. Theeality, in the middle of 17th century, the english empire looks more like this. Clusters, you can barely see it. There is a dark patch around ch