30th August: Rapunzel.
In 1862 in Northern Virginia, however, Major General John Pope was about to get his long awaited comeuppance. Lee was ready to take the offensive against the man he had come to despise, for his over confident bombast and disregard and disrespect of Virginia and the men he had come east to command.
Not heeding his subordinates’ requests for caution, Pope tried once again to break Jackson’s battered Corps(one Brigade did break, but others plugged the gap). On the union far left were only two brigades of Infantry and they were to be assailed by ten times their number. Three Southern Divisions, Hood’s, Kemper’s and Jones’ crashed onto the field, making short work of the outnumbered Northern troops.
Pope did well to recognise the danger when it appeared and sent four Brigades from three different Divisions to hold at Henry House Hill on his left. Remember this was ground fought over 13 months ago, by much the same men and officers, although most were now promoted.
This time around there would be no rout. Understandably, there was much jubilation on the side of the Southerners and a great loss of morale on the Northern side. This sense of martial superiority, begun last Summer at 1st Manassas, was to continue and come to a head on the field of Gettysburg another Summer from now.
Saving One Lost Artifact from a Past War
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@rjpeters70:
Library of Alexandria.
I second this.�  This held a lot of the world’s knowledge at the time and the loss was catastrophic.
Who needs the “world’s knowledge” when you can have a device that was used to summon god!
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The library of Baghdad. Though I agree that the library of Alexandria is an excellent choice.
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I can’t think of one item, but I suppose I wish there was more left of Carthage(nasty Romans).
Maybe the birthplace of Hannibal: a house to visit, a market place to see where he would have wandered or somewhere he may have trained. Something personal to him. Not many busts remain of him: I can picture one, but would like more of an idea of what he looked like.I will choose the house in which he grew up.
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The Czars Palace of Amber which disappeared would be awesome.
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@Herr:
The library of Baghdad. Though I agree that the library of Alexandria is an excellent choice.
Dang! Alexandria was mine I thought. I guess the Bizmarck or a functioning Horton Flying Wing.
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NOBODY goes for the BERNSTEIN ZIMMER?..(AMBER ROOM) sigh…
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@aequitas:
NOBODY goes for the BERNSTEIN ZIMMER?..(AMBER ROOM) sigh…
What is that Aequitas?
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@wittmann:
@aequitas:
NOBODY goes for the BERNSTEIN ZIMMER?..(AMBER ROOM) sigh…
What is that Aequitas?
If you visit Kathrinenpalace in St. Petersburg you´ll see a copy of the Bernsteinzimmer wich many people declare as the 8th wonder of the world.
About the Original :
Prussia King Friedrich I. ordered to built/create the Bernsteinzimmer, a room made only by amber mosaiqes as a gift to his wife Sophie Charlott. 1716 Friedrich Wilhelm I. gave it as a special gift to Czar Peter the Great who loved it.
It was in Russia for over 200 yrs.
The Wehrmacht found it and put it into 27 boxes to transport it back to Königsberg (East Prussia now Poland)Then it dissapeared and many Theories are surround it.
Some say it was bombed, some claim it it somewhere burried.
If you find it today you will be rich. 130.000 € till 250.000 € worth.
BUT, of course complete and intact!!
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Thank you Aequitas. Had no idea.
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It would be cool to save a greek fire thrower from back in the day.
The fire was said to burn on water.
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I saw somewhere that the Ark of the covennant is in ethopia.
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