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    Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

    -- General George Patton Jr

    The Class of 1846

    The Class of 1846 is a well researched nonfiction book about the West Point class of 1846. The author is John C. Waugh. He does a great job in telling the stories of the graduating cadets of that class. He follows them through the Mexican war, their formative years on the Western Plains and then the Civil War.

    You see how the cadets melded their friendships through the trial and tribulations of the Mexican War. Then author Waugh takes you through a heart rending episode the night that Garnett and Armistead met with Hancock as they said their goodbyes and went their separate ways, only to have all three of them meet 2 years later at the battlefield of Gettysburg. I could not put the book down, reading it straight through was the only option as it really hold your attention.


    Added:  Sunday, April 07, 2002
    Reviewer:  Bill Doherty
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    1813: The United States invasion of Canada is halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.

    1862: The Union claims Memphis, Tennessee, the Confederacys fifth-largest city, a naval manufacturing yard, and a key Southern industrial center.

    1918: U.S. Marines enter combat at the Battle of Belleau Wood.

    1944: Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France.

    1951: U.N. naval aircraft, along with Air Force and Marine Corps reinforcements, flew 230 sorties against enemy troop concentrations and supply lines in the central and western sectors.

    1952: Operation COUNTER began as the 45th Infantry Division launched a two-phased series of attacks to establish strategic outpost sites in the Old Baldy area. The 45th Infantry Division seized 11 outposts west of Chorwon. Repeated communist counterattacks during the remainder of the month failed to dislodge friendly troops.

    1972: South Vietnamese forces drive out all but a few of the communist troops remaining in Kontum.

    1982: Israel invades southern Lebanon.


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