The History Of The War

Once General Grant finally decided to allow another Commander to take over the attack, it was then when the Union forces prevailed and won the battle. This is one of the most valuable

This battle in particular was vital, as The 13 day siege at the Alamo gave General Sam Houston the necessary time he needed to gather his army for the battle at San Jacinto. Texans became incredibly inspired by the bravery of the rebels and the battle cry of "Remember the Alamo" spurred the remaining Texan soldiers to fight the large Mexican Army. It was through this battle that Texas won its independence, but none of it wouldn’t have been possible had it not been for the defenders of the Alamo.

The Battle of Antietam could have been a devastating and fatal blow to the Confederate Army if Gen. McClellan acted decisively, took calculated risks, and veered away from his cautious approach to war. There are many instances leading up to the battle and during the battle in which he lacks the necessary offensive initiative to effectively cripple and ultimately win the war. This paper is intended to articulate the failure of Mission Command by GEN McClellan by pointing out how he failed to understand, visualize, describe and direct the battlefield to his benefit.

The soldiers help on a strong fight for 12 days at the Alamo, travis and his troop didn't want to surrender to the war. That's when Santa Ana ordered more than 1,800 men to head their way to the fortress. Then the Texans got to met the attackers with gunshots and cannons on their way. Then something horrible had happened during their war the Texans had wasted all their ammunition. So they had no weapons to use. At the end all the five Texans were dead. So that meant that the battle of Alamo was over.

Swimming against a current of pro-war fervor, McKinley stuck to his guns and persisted on remaining diplomatic with the investigation of the Maine explosion still ongoing. This seemed to infuriate the entire nation. Jingoists in congress, yellow journalists and the American public were clamoring for Spanish blood after the Maine, and to them McKinley came across as a feeble leader. McKinley offered one last chance for Spain to avoid war by agreeing to an armistice. He thought that the Spanish would understand that it would be a foolish decision to engage in war with a rising US power. The negative Spanish response did not leave McKinley with many options.

As the Mexicans moved forward they yelled out “Viva Santa Anna”. De La Pena was at the North wall and minutes followed and later on captured the confusion. Combat followed with rifle butts, bayonets, knives, axes, ramrods, and anything else that is hand to hand. There were simply too many Mexicans coming from too many sides the Texans couldn’t defend themselves that good. Most of the women and children were huddled inside when the walls of the fort were breaded. Outside the main plaza the battle had entered a different phase that they could no longer keep the Mexicans out. One man burrowed under the bush while another man hid beneath the bridge spanning the San Antonio River shooting up to the Mexicans. Travis had prepared for this order small holes pounded through the walls of some rooms that luckily no people were in. The Mexican offers ordered The Alamo cannon, turned in word and began blasting away at doors. The columns of Mexican soldiers were hard to stop in the middle of the dark landscape. Texans were now awake and at their positions. From the cannon nearest to the Travis, he sent nearly fifty men including one of their captains. The Gen. Cos column had suffered forty men who were severely killed. The Mexicans cannons were super silent they were afraid that they would hit their own soldiers. While all of this was happening on the north side of the fort, the east and south side had their own

This happens because the Texans are not successful in defending the fort. All American forces are killed by Santa Anna and the Mexican Army. After the Texan fight for independence at the Alamo, Sam Houston rounds up the rest of the forces and moves away from Santa Anna. He later for Santa Anna to make a mistake for him to fight the Mexican Army. Santa Anna later becomes impatient and splits his forces up then Sam Houston is ready to make his next move. He fights and later kills or captures all of the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto. This events later affect the future of Texas and America by making Texas its own independent nation, a nation who is later annexed into the United States along with Oregon. The role this movie has with the idea of Manifest Destiny are that Texas creates a new nation. With a lot of land for many to have plantations. This makes America bigger helping the conquer another part of what later becomes the United

The arrival of support troops for Santa Anna’s army lead to the question for Houston as to whether or not the Texas forces should attack on the day of the arrival (Anderson and Wooster, 2016). The encampment of both forces from one another, directly across from each other, had led to the assumption that both the Mexican forces and the Texas forces would fight on April 22 (Pedro, 1921). Yet, Houston understood that the arrival of exhausted troops might provide an advantage to his own men, calling on his officers, Houston asked them if they should fight that day, April 21 (Taylor, 1935). Houston’s officers took a vote with a significant majority agreeing that it would be best to wait for the following day, April 22 (Taylor, 1935). Although a vote was taken, many of the volunteers in Houston’s army were tired of waiting and took their own vote as to whether or not to attack; they agreed that they should (Taylor, 1935). Houston agreed with the soldiers and decided to attack that day (Taylor, 1935).

From 1861 until 1865, the United States was embroiled in a war that took or changed the lives of some 625,000 people, leaving many more scarred, mutilated, mentally incapacitated, and with family torn asunder. The war, not fought against an opposing nation or an invading force, but with brothers and countrymen on opposite sides of armed lines, was both longer and bloodier than either side had predicted, though it had been coming for years. The question of slavery had caused numerous debates and fights at the state level as well as in the federal houses, and the many states holding slaves believed it was their right to decide their own future. After the election of Abraham Lincoln to the office of President of the United States, many saw

John and I went to his training grounds and I looked in shock because there were only seventeen troops ready to battle I said “ Don't we need more troops”

would think that when one of our Generals is sent a tactical message by the President of the United States, he would obey it. Well, not General Don Carlos Buell! When he was given orders through Acting General-in Chief Hallek, to move east along the Memphis and Charleston Railroad to capture Chattanooga and then drive the enemy out of East Tennessee, he would act accordingly. But, not Gen. Buell. He had a far different battle plan in mind. Apparently, he thought he could tell the President of the United States how to run the war. He, like Gen. McClelland, preferred a strategy of maneuver and siege to one of all-out battle as proposed by the President. As a result he moved his troops at such a slow pace that in three weeks time, he still

“Get up, we need to get ready.” said General Carl demandingly. General Carl was one of the few General’s at an army base called FOB Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

"As much as I would like to not worry about it, these are clowns we are talking about. Their unconventional warfare cannot be discounted. I think we need to go down to Chicago and try and help anyway we can."

"What is important is that they should understand that killing our brothers won't pass without a price."

“We have a right to fight for our country. The same as every other American.”