On the 24th May 1864 Grant gifted Lee the kind of opportunity that rarely happens in a campaign: to wreck the other’s army.
After the bloodletting of May 5-12th, that cost Lee 22000 casualties and Grant 34000,'weakening both armies by 33% and 25% respectively, Grant again disengaged and moved South towards Richmond. Lee had followed and had been reinforced with 7 small Brigades from his capital.
Grant had inadvertentally straddled his large army across the North Anna river.
Lee saw the way to take advantage of his smaller numbers and punish the Federal II Corps, Grant’s best. He could throw 30000 men at the 24000 that were over the V in the river separating Grant’s two halves of his army. Hancock’s 24000 could not be reinforced, because of the V of the river, so he readied his assault.
On the afternoon of the 24th Lee fell violently sick with diarrhoea. He lay helplessly for hours while the opportunity to assault, before the Union commanders realised the sure situation were in.
The reason Lee’s defensive strike could not be undertaken was simple: the attrition of the last 19 days had robbed him of a subordinate able to manage it.
Time and opportunity passed. Grant and Hancock’s isolated Corps were extremely lucky.
We all know the loss of a quarter of Grant’s force would never have changed his resolve to “fight it all out, even if it takes all Summer”, but another battering would have diminished his potential to do so sooner.
Top 5
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This would have been my # 6 all time…See if you can guess the artist!
Hello hello, is there anybody in there. Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home.Alan Parsons project??
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Let me sleep on it, baby baby let me sleep on it, I’ll give you an answer in the morning. I WANT TO KNOW RIGHT NOW, DO YOU LOVE ME, WILL YOU LOVE ME FOREVER? no, I just want to try out some of that cooter.
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Well, you quoted “Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd.
BTW: Want to know who Alan Parsons is, check the Producer credit on Dark Side of the Moon.
APP has been doing albums since 1976. About 16 so far I think. Some VERY creative work.
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" I’m a loser baby, why don’t you kill me". Who does that ? It’s so cool!!
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Ok. I’ll try.
#1 Radiohead
#2 Metallica pre Black Album
#3 Pink Floyd
#4 Faith No More
#5 Peter Murphy/ BauhausTop 5 Songs? Holy crap that’s a tough one…
#1 Band on the Run- Paul McCartney and Wings
#2 Us and Them- Pink Floyd
#3 For Whom the Bell Tolls- Metallica
#4 Indigo Eyes- Peter Murphy
#5 Jerusalem- Sinead O’ConnerHonorable Mention…
#6 The Long and Winding Road- Beatles
#7 The Unforgettable Fire- U2
#8 Leper Messiah- Metallica
#9 Porch- Pearl Jam
#10 Synchronicity II- The Police -
Oh, and Maddogs second line is from Paradise by the Dashboard Light by Meatloaf
“So now I’m prayin for the end of time….” :-D
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Together:
Rush- Limelight
Led Zeppelin- Over the hills and far away, live version
CCR (Credence Clearwater Revival)- Born on the Bayou
The Doors- Road House Blues
The Who- Entire rock opera, Tommy. -
Oh my a top five… Thats a hard job to do.
You can always take a look at my audioscrobbler profile to check what it has as my top artist, but really that only counts the music on my computer and since most of music is on LPs and CDs its not very precise.I can’t really list a top five but I can recommend some artists I’m currently using a lot of listening time to.
Mogwai - An instrumental post rock band from the Glasgow scene. They compose some really beautiful songs, its just layer upon layer of guitars, building up into the greatest symphony of noise and harmonies. Some songs to recommend would be “Auto Rock” of the “Mr Beast” Album and “Haunted by a freak” of the “Happy Songs For Happy People” album.
Under Byen - A danish Electronica / Indie rock band. This might be a strange artist to recommend on an international forum since the lyrics are in danish. But they have done several shows around Europe and in New York, all with great reviews (David Fricke recommended them as his “favorite band of the year” to mention one) and an amazed audience.
The music is very experimental and consists of a large string section accompanying the more classics rock setup of guitars, bass and drums. This would definitely be worth your while to listen to, they have a few (all full lenght) mp3 on their website, its free and legal, so don’t worry about this…oh I gotta go now… I might pop by this thread to write more, and maybe then try to get into the top 5 subject…
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Just off the top of my head…
Bands
1: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
2: The Wallflowers
3: Collective Soul
4: System of a Down
5: Ben Folds, or Counting Crows, or Gerry Rafferty, or Interpol, or Something Corporate, or…Songs
1: I Won’t Back Down (by Tom Petty)
2: One Headlight (by The Wallflowers]
3: Why, Pt. 2 (by Collective Soul)
4: A.D.D (by System of a Down)
5: Fired (by Ben Folds), or Omaha (by Counting Crows), or Stealin’ Time (by Gerry Rafferty), or Slow Hands (by Interpol), or I Kissed A Drunk Girl (by Something Corporate), or… -
Top 5 Bands(Not in set order after #1) -
- Beatles
- Rush
- Chicago
- Pink Floyd
- Glenn Miller Band
Dishonorable Mention = Dixie Chicks :oops:
Top 5 songs - Change at the insertion of a CD. :-D
Top 5 Singers - Not in order.
- Barry White
- Aretha Franklin
- Wierd Al Yankovic
- Willie Nelson
- Amy Grant
Honorable Mention - Ella Fitzgerald
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Hey El Jefe, We have something in common after all. The Beatles. Wasn’t that Abbey road album awesome! The best album in history as far I’m concerned. Have you seen polythene pam?
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MAD, more in common than you think. We both spend too much time here. :-D
Abbey Road’s great, but my personal favorite is Yellow Submarine. I don’t have many fav albums as my fav songs change often.
No I hadn’t! Polythene Pam is like Mc/Len could see the future(today.)
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