- Following his victory at Second Manassas in August 1862, Lee chose to pursue the defeated Union army rather than move on Washington, D.C., which was relatively undefended at the time.
- Again, after his success at Chancellorsville in May 1863, Lee hesitated to exploit his victory fully, allowing the Union Army to regroup and dig in along the heights of Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, leading to his decisive defeat there.
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History of Chicago , Andrew Diamond &Pap Ndiaye, Fayard, 2013 The somewhat misleading title of this book seems to offer a synthetic and mainstream city history, as Fayard has already published many times, whether from Rome, from Beirut or Vienna. However, this text, written with four hands by two Am
Tonight, a long excerpt from Antoine Coppolanis excellent biography, Richard Nixon , published by Éditions Fayard in October. I had already reviewed a good book on Nixon, by Romain Huret (https://brumes.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/de-quoi-nixon-est-il-le-nom/). Coppolanis massive work (a biography that
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