PPT-The Battle of Antietam

September 17 1862 Robert E Lee CSA George B McClellan USA The Two Commanders General Robert E Lees reasons for invading Maryland To gather supplies and troops from the slaveholding border state of Maryland. By: Ashley Nichols. Ronaldo Moran. Hitler losing. German history of blitzkrieg pushes. Wanted to “bully” the Allies into peace -> focus on Russia. Background Information. Allies. 800,000 men. 424 armored vehicles. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 20. 20. 20. 20. 20. 20. 30. 30. 30. 30. 30. 30. 40. 40. 40. 40. 40. 40. 50. 50. 50. 50. 50. 50. Battle of Bull Run. Dispatches. Background. Chart. Battle of Antietam. Glossary. by. Date. . The battle started on the 4. th. of . J. une 1942 and ended on 7. th. of June 1942.. Approximately. one month after. the battle of the . coral sea and six . months after Japan’s. By Samuel Amis. Europe – 1812. The French Emperor Napoleon had humbled all the main European powers save Great Britain, whose navy won a decisive victory at Trafalgar and put paid to any French ambitions of invasion. Instead Napoleon turned to dominating the mainland and thus denying the British their major markets for trade. To this end he occupied Spain and put his brother on the throne and forced the Austrians, Prussians as well as the Italian and German states into an unwilling alliance with France. Napoleon eventually overreached himself with the disastrous invasion of Russia that resulted in the deaths. By Reilly Stone. . What was the Battle of The Bulge?. . The Battle of the Bulge was a German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxemburg on the Western front toward the end of World War II in Europe against the allied forces.. General Early and Major G. M. Sorrel each wrote an account of the battle at Antietam. . Though involved in the same grisly conflict, these two men’s accounts differ remarkably in tone and subject. Both Sorrel and Early wrote about Longstreet’s . L/O – To examine the events of the battle and to judge who was now favourite to win the crown. Can you remember who they were?. Harold becomes King of England. When Edward the Confessor died on 5th January 1066, the . imoportant. to note that Putnam’s views are coming from a wealthy, white woman of the time who made her living writing for newspapers (1). . Prelude:. After the Second Battle of Bull Run, General Robert E. Lee led his own soldiers of Northern Virginia across the Potomac into Maryland. Lee wanted to relieve pressure from Shenandoah Valley during the harvest season to encourage European support to prove to them that the Confederacy was able to beat Union forces on their own turf. General Lee split up his troops to various important objectives with General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. . David Wong, Jeremy Gunawan, Francisco Rubiolo, Matthew Morin. Thesis. To aid the Allies in the fight against Hitler, the U.S.A. sent supplies overseas, to which Germany responded by shooting them down with U-boats. To protect their ships, Allied inventors developed . The Civil War and the Origins of Modern Commemoration. A Contrast: Federal Buried, Rebel Unburied, Where they fell at the Battle of Antietam. .. Copyrighted by Alexander Gardner, Oct. 7, 1862. “Album card” from the collection of Gen. George B. McClellan, Princeton University, image approx. 3” . The Civil War and the Origins of Modern Commemoration. A Contrast: Federal Buried, Rebel Unburied, Where they fell at the Battle of Antietam. .. Copyrighted by Alexander Gardner, Oct. 7, 1862. “Album card” from the collection of Gen. George B. McClellan, Princeton University, image approx. 3” . “My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.”- Mathew Brady. MATHEW BRADY. Self Portrait . Biographical Information. The second World War defense of the UK by the Royal Air Force against the German Air force (Luftwaffe). Date: 10 July- 31 October 1940. Location: Britain airspace. Result: British victory. WWII’s defense of the UK by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). America\'s bloodiest day--the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862--left more dead American soldiers in its wake than any other 24-hour period in history. Antietam and the related battles of the Maryland Campaign that led up to the lethal confrontation did not result in decisive defeats for either side. But they did serve as a brutal warning to an out-gunned, out-commanded, and out-organized Union army.Eyewitness accounts by battle participants make these guides an invaluable resource for travelers and nontravelers who want a greater understanding of five of the most devastating yet influential years in our nation\'s history. Explicit directions to points of interest and maps--illustrating the action and showing the detail of troop position, roads, rivers, elevations, and tree lines as they were 130 years ago--help bring the battles to life. In the field, these guides can be used to recreate each battle\'s setting and proportions, giving the reader a sense of the tension and fear each soldier must have felt as he faced his enemy.