The Battle Against General Magnus And His Army

This paper will examine the British and American Southern Loyalist defeat in the Battle of Kings Mountain and discuss the assumptions the British made including loyalist support, logistic support, and terrain advantage.

By 1864 the Union troops were closing in on the Confederacy. Major ports and cities had been taken over. North Carolina and the port at Wilmington were becoming major targets for the Union army and in November, 1864 a plan was put into place to move Union troops for the first assault on Fort Fisher. In a letter written by Richard Delafield, general and chief engineer for the U.S. Army, Delafield discusses the plan for the destruction and the capture of Fort Fisher and Fort Caswell. Fort Caswell was located on Oak Island, south of Fort Fisher, but also protecting the entrance to the Cape Fear River. Delafield’s letter details the strategy for the destruction of Fort Fisher:

McPherson’s account that the Confederates were unable to fight is not supported by his claims that the two groups of the Confederate soldiers continued waging war on two fronts even with the limited supplies occasioned by the cutting of the Texas supply corridor and the passage from Arkansas (McPherson, 2009). How could soldiers who were reeling from deprivation of all food supplies still engage in warfare?

The battle of King’s Mountain is the topic that I have chosen. The battle was between the Patriots and the Loyalists. The Patriot’s militia was called the Green Mountain Boys and the Loyalist’s militia was the Hessians. The war happened in King’s Mountain, South Carolina on October 7, 1780. This battle was a great triumph for the American Patriots. That area was the death of the British militia leader Patrick Ferguson.

It was a dark and wet June evening in 1863 when Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart (J.E.B. Stuart) received the order. Maintain contact with the enemy, harass and impeded the northerners if they attempt to cross the Potomac River, and guard the Blue Ridge’s mountain passes. If the enemy attempts to cross the river, cross first and stay on the Confederate’s right flank. The orders were clear enough for execution. General Robert E. Lee often issued orders that gave his trusted subordinates the leeway to conduct operations as they saw fit. Only this time, not even the strategically talented General Lee could predict the necessity of having Stuart’s Cavalry support the Army of Northern Virginia’s advance from the front and flank while maneuvering into Gettysburg.

The Army of the Potomac had stopped at the War College; General Magnus was a very unhappy man to find no one home. The entire place had been cleaned out by he assumed, the 28th ID, and something else wasn’t quite right. There was something nagging at him. Why hadn’t anyone really engaged them in battle, well outside of the gangs and civilian formed militias. Where the hell was the 28th ID heading? What were the Special Forces up to? Who were they reporting to? He had so many unanswered questions. He needed answers. Four of the scouting platoons he had sent out at the beginning of the week had for the most part disappeared.

Colonel Lambert and his men were feeling a bit train fever they had been cooped up for days on the train. They had been moving slowly through northern Virginia the tracks had been blocked, removed or even destroyed purposely. The only reason people had blocked the tracks was because for some reason camps had built up around them, perhaps because they were open areas that had already been cleared. Maybe because it brought back memories of another time but people built camps right over them. People were surprised to see the huge black behemoth in same cases barreling down on them, one of the reasons they had slowed down a bit. There was one instance where they had plowed through one camp in the middle of the night, damn near killed everyone and those that survived needless to say weren’t happy, they kept moving.

The Battle of Valenciennes was the final touch to solidify Canada as a military force. Once again, Canadians used their exemplary offences to capture yet another French city. According to Carl Pépin, central Valenciennes is flat land, while the south (Mont Houy) and the east is higher ground. The north-east and south-west Valenciennes were flooded including Scheldt Canal, which was covered in barbed wire to protect the Germans. Knowing this, Lieutenant-General Currie and the British Generals had the British Corps take Mont Houy then the Canadian Corps would capture the city. On October 28, a Scottish division had to capture Mont Houy, but failed. In its place, the Canadian Corps was sent to capture it. On November 1, 1918 Canadian troops surrounded the German lines with creeping barrages forcing hundreds of them to

The battle of Verdun was a battle during World War I. The battle began on February 21st 1916 and was considered the longest battle of World War I. It did not end until December 20th 1916. German Chief of General Staff, von Falkenhayn was said not to have set out for war over land but to kill. The fighting motivated heroism but also caused slaughter on a horrific level. There was almost one death per minute. The battle led to hundreds of thousand deaths of the British. For almost four months of the battle two shells were fired every second.

The Battle of Verdun was one of the worst battles in history with a plethora of soldiers lost. Alistair Horne describes the Battle of the Verdun as “a soldier’s battle” since nearly one million soldiers were killed there and the battle lasted for three hundred days and nights. (Horne notes and Verdun slides) Moreover, soldiers Verdun witnessed endless bombardment, which meant their dead troops could not be buried. (Verdun slides) In other words, soldiers probably had to fight one another for space so they would not have to walk on the dead bodies since they could not be buried. Last, there were bloodier aspects of the Battle of Verdun besides shelter.

Part 1 of “The Return Of A Private” recounts the events of a handful of soldiers returning from war to their homes in La Crosse County. The story starts with Private Smith and a couple of other soldiers getting off a train at around 2 A.M. at La Crosse County train station. I had some trouble understanding the dialouge of the soldiers because the writer presented the soldiers as unruly rednecks that talk like this “Tht ther is ah UF of O.” But, I believe the soldiers decided to just camp on the benches of the train station so they didn't have to waste money getting a hotel. When the soldiers woke later in the day they headed towards their home. After a stop at a diner for a coffee

started on 21st February 1916, on the right bank of the Meuse where heavy missile

The battle of Verdun was one of the bloodies battles in WW1, in fact it was one of the bloodiest battles in world history up to that point. It was also the longest battle of WW1 lasting at around 10 months (In class notes). The battle was kicked off by letter sent the the Kaiser by German Chief of Staff Falkenhayn (Intro to the documents at the top of the page). He states that the key to winning the war did not rely on the Eastern Front against Russia, but rather on the Western front (First paragraph in “The battle of Verdun, 1916). He claimed that defeating France would incline Britain to seek terms with Germany (End of first paragraph).

“There is a nice sound to the phrase ‘mountain warfare.’ It has a ring of daring; it sounds much

The battle of Kheibar took place in 628ce (Gabriel 152). After the truce of Hudaibiya Muhammad was eager to attack the Jewish settlement at Kheibar before a new coalition could be formed to oppose him (Gabriel 152). Muhammad’s plan was to reduce each force in the valley one by one (Gabriel 155). The Muslims won this battle and conquered the town of Kheibar that was the closest to Mecca in the strength of its opposition to Muhammad, but it was easier because the Jews did not work together, instead they worked separately to protect their own clan compounds (Gabriel 156).