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Under Siege episode 3 - Petersburg 1864

Under Siege episode 3 – Petersburg 1864

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Under Siege episode 3 – Petersburg 1864: The Battle of the Crater, fought during the grueling Siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War, remains one of the most tragic and bizarre episodes in military history. Petersburg, a strategic railroad hub in Virginia, should never have endured such a prolonged and devastating siege. In June 1864, Union forces, under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant, had the opportunity to seize the town and potentially end the war swiftly. However, due to a series of miscommunications, strategic blunders, and a failure of leadership, the Union army failed to capture Petersburg. […]

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American History’s Biggest Fibs episode 2

American History’s Biggest Fibs episode 2

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American History’s Biggest Fibs episode 2: In the second programme of this three-part series, Lucy Worsley debunks the myths behind one of the USA’s great historical landmarks: the American Civil War. At the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington DC, Lucy explains that Abraham Lincoln has gone down in history as the saviour of the union, and for ending slavery. He did it at the expense of the bloodiest conflict ever to take place on American soil, a civil war that pitted Lincoln’s ‘free’ North against the slave-owning Confederate states in the South.     But Lucy reveals that Lincoln’s personal views,

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