@SuperbattleshipYamato Yeah I get you 100%. Alternate History is a niche interest in the first place so finding other people willing to go down the rabbit hole is always tough.
Visiting Battlefields
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Let me correct myself… I have been to Washington DC twice. But you don’t generally think of it as having been a battlefield. While you are there you tend to focus on all the monuments and attractions. Anything War of 1812 gets glossed over.
BTW, of the soldiers who burned down the White house, were any of them Canadian?
I don’t know… Why do you ask? I was always under the impression they were British regulars.
Well, this girl in my class said that Canadian history textbooks say that Canadians burned down the White House when they were actually British. I said that some of them may have been Canadians, but now I’m curious
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Let me correct myself… I have been to Washington DC twice. But you don’t generally think of it as having been a battlefield. While you are there you tend to focus on all the monuments and attractions. Anything War of 1812 gets glossed over.
BTW, of the soldiers who burned down the White house, were any of them Canadian?
I don’t know… Why do you ask? I was always under the impression they were British regulars.
Well, this girl in my class said that Canadian history textbooks say that Canadians burned down the White House when they were actually British. I said that some of them may have been Canadians, but now I’m curious
Well I have never heard that before. All the American classes I have been in said they were British. I haven’t read up on it though.
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My aunt was a US History teacher who lived outside D.C. so
Every Civil war battlefield within driving distance form DC. Multiple times. I can not think of a single Army of Northern Virginia battlefield I have not visited.
Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Chicamauga, Little big Horn, Fetterman Fight, Dade battlefield (2nd Seminole war), Atlanta, Olustee, FL, Yorktown, Franklin, Nashville, the OK Corral :wink:
The only real big Civil War Battlefields that has elluded me are Shiloh and Stones River TN.
Next year we are taking a trip to the French countryside to see the WW1 battlefields. We will be traveling from Verdun to Ypres and in between.
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Next year we are taking a trip to the French countryside to see the WW1 battlefields. We will be traveling from Verdun to Ypres and in between.
That is an awesome trip.
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As for Civil War I have been to Gettysburg.
Great battle field, I also like Saratoga, Ticonaroga, Fort Mackinaw, Lexington and Concord, Bunker/Breeds hill, and Fort Sumpter. I would really love to go to Normandy though.
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@spartan:
I would really love to go to Normandy though.
Normandy has to be about Number 1 on everybody’s list. It is mine… sort of like, the epitome of war itself and the massive sacrafice of lives. I would be honored to go.
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I visited Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River during the Thanksgiving holiday. After seeing the awesome defensive position the South had, the quick surrender of the fort seemed foolish.
Signs of the network of trenches protecting the fort still existed.
I mosted liked the shrine honoring the unknown southern soldiers that were buried in unmarked trenches. The Shrine had these words, “Honor their valor, emulate the devotion with which they gave themselves to the service of their country, let it never be said that their sons in these southern states have forgotten their noble example.”
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As much as I would love to say Canadians DID burn down the White House :lol: :-P, after doing some research I cannot find evidence that we did. I believe it was a bunch of British regulars, along with a contingent of British Marines who had been protecting Canada and were sent down south to fight.
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In two weeks I plan on visiting the Sabine Pass Battle site and doing some fishing.
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I’ll be heading the Pea Ridge Arkansas in June.
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Normandy has to be about Number 1 on everybody’s list. It is mine… sort of like, the epitome of war itself and the massive sacrafice of lives.
Normandy is a sideshow in comparison to any number of battles on the eastern front.
Stalingrad - just for example.
But I hear what you are saying. I’ve been there, and it’s incredible
(Bastogne was definetly my favourite site though)
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Been to Gettysburg, which was really amazing, and Boston, with the freedom trail is really amazing. but like everyone else, i would love to visit Normandy
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I started reading about US civil war 20 years ago and is my favourite subject. Alas have not crossed the Atlantic yet. (want to tip my hat at Jackson’s grave and will cry imagining proud, insulted Cleburne’s fall at Franklin.
Have seen too many English sites to mention. Have Visited Waterloo, Normandy, Bastogne, Flanders all more than once and have slept at sleepy Sedan. I lived inbetween Sword and Gold beaches when at University. (Chose Caen university purposely.) Have stayed in Carentan, St. Mere Eglise and had a beer at Villers Bocage, toasting the world’s greatest tank ace. I have seen his gravestone and stood by the field where his Tiger was ambushed by 5 Shermans.
My holidays are planned around battlefields. Sicily in October. -
Been to the Russian front outside St. Petersburg, Pearl Harbor/Oahu, Okinawa, the Mariana islands, Poland (it still looks like crap), Fort Sumter…with moving to Japan in October, hope to go see Hiroshima/Nagasaki really quick.
Does Detriot count as a Battlefield?
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@wittman:
I started reading about US civil war 20 years ago and is my favourite subject. Alas have not crossed the Atlantic yet. (want to tip my hat at Jackson’s grave and will cry imagining proud, insulted Cleburne’s fall at Franklin.
Have seen too many English sites to mention. Have Visited Waterloo, Â Normandy, Bastogne, Flanders all more than once and have slept at sleepy Sedan. I lived inbetween Sword and Gold beaches when at University. (Chose Caen university purposely.) Have stayed in Carentan, St. Mere Eglise and had a beer at Villers Bocage, toasting the world’s greatest tank ace. Â I have seen his gravestone and stood by the field where his Tiger was ambushed by 5 Shermans.
My holidays are planned around battlefields. Sicily in October.Is the puppet still up on St. Mere Eglise´s  Clocktower as a Reminder of the fights during WWII on D-Day?
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Puppet was there 5 years ago. Cannot imagine they would move it.
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Have just realised I have left a letter “m” off my hero’s name. Who is the idiot? I studied German too!
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The Pea Ridge Battle Fields were beautiful.
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Don’t tease me. I said I will come one day. Whenever I mentioned my need to go to girlfriends they said: “Great. Shopping in New York!”
I do not think they got it.
I am not shopping. I have too much to see!
Suffice to say, will be thinking of mortally wounded Virginians and old aggressive Isaac Trimble. -
July 3rd…
“For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago…
William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dustâ€
We from the south find these words dear to our hearts.
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