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nevertheless, while other union commanders were failing, grant had climbed steadily up the military ladder with resounding victories, stretching from fort henry in 1862, through vicksburg to missionary ridge in 1863. he was clearly the north s man of the hour. when lincoln ordered an east early in 1864 to take command of all federal forces. the somewhere near 500,000 combat ready soldiers grant would have authority over the largest post any american officer had ever led. the new lieutenant general wasted little time in making his strategic intentions known. in the past, grant asserted, union armies had quote, acted independently and without concept like a bulky team of mules, no two pulling to the. and this allowed confederates to shift men from one sector to the other to meet the most pressing danger. union generals seemed content to maneuver. but that was not the road to victory, grant announced. the north had far superior numbers, and materiel. it was time to switch ....
stymied. lee is any a powerful position and grant can t break through. what does he do? maneuvers. he pulled the army of the potomac ought of the wilderness and goes to the spotseslvania courthouse and then lee has to come out from the wilderness and fight him on opened ground. this is a tactical maneuver aimed at pulling lee from his strong entrenchmentes. the army of the potomac shifts south, a drama take point in the war because up to this point, whatever union generals had been trounced in the battle as bad as lee had defeated grant and in the wilderness they always retreated but grant moved south to the court house and lee gets awe finger of his army in front of grant and blocks him and there s brutal fighting in places with names like the mule shoe and the bloody age that will goes on for over a week, will be 10 days and then finally grant realizes he can t break through there so grant maneuvers again. he pulls the union army out from spots vain yeah courthouse an ....
a party-line basis. and now, my friends, they sowed the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind. so we need to repeal the affordable care act and we need to replace it. because health care in america is still not satisfactory, nor have we fulfilled the needs and our obligations that we have to all of our citizens. the problems with the affordable care act are well known. a failed web site rollout that has hindered enrollment and the purchase of mandated coverage. as of december 17 only an estimated 440,000 835 people have ben enrolled for a health plan. that s 6.2% of the enrollment goal of seven million by march 31, 2014. there s a destruct jiff tax on medical devices that encourages these businesses to move offshore. we have already seen medical device manufacturers leaving the united states of america, as they said they would if they were taxed to the point where they could not be competitive with medical devices that were manufactured in foreign countries. the disa ....
Fredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo, who endured five-and-a-half months in captivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a well-known advocate for peace and human rights in the country ....