Author: Michael

Would you stake thousands of lives on a strategy that, by every measure of your training and experience, seems destined for catastrophic failure?In 1863, with the Vicksburg campaign stalled, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant conceived a plan that left Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman predicting defeat: The Union Army of the Tennessee would march deep into enemy territory, cutting loose its own supply lines to attack the city from the rear. Sherman, himself no slouch in warfare, saw it as reckless — a trap an “enemy would be glad to manoeuvre a year… to get [Grant] in.

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The Indian Defence Ministry has signed contract valued at Rs 62,370 crore, or approximately $7 billion, to procure 97 Tejas Mk1A lightweight fighters, representing the largest order the troubled and long delayed program has ever received. The order will finance the procurement of 68 single seat and 29 twin seat variants of the aircraft, with its signing closely coinciding with the phasing of the Tejas’ direct predecessor, the MiG-21, out of service on September 26.

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By 1890, the American Frontier was closed. There was no longer a line of settlers marking the westward expansion of the United States. Destiny had been manifested, and the number of Native Americans had dwindled to just 225,000. It would also see the last major event of the Indian Wars: the Massacre at Wounded Knee.
On December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation, the U.S. 7th Cavalry attempted to disarm a band of Miniconjou Lakota led by Spotted Elk.

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