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Hace 3 días · Thaddeus Lowe, considered the father of military aerial reconnaissance in the US, led the Union Army's Balloon Corps during the Civil War. As any serious student of military aviation history knows, aerial combat made its debut during the First World War, in the form of lighter-than-air zeppelins and heavier-than-air fixed-wing fighter planes ...
Hace 3 días · Union general George B. McClellan. George B. McClellan profoundly affected the course of the Civil War. His inexplicable retreat following a major victory at Malvern Hill in July 1862 undoubtedly lengthened the conflict and, to his chagrin, helped advance the process of emancipation.
Hace 2 días · The Northern public clamored for another scapegoat, and McDowell bore the chief blame. On July 25, he was relieved of army command and replaced by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, who would soon be named general-in-chief of all the Union armies.
Hace 11 horas · Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac on July 26, 1861 (he was briefly general-in-chief of all the Union armies but was subsequently relieved of that post in favor of Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck), and the war began in earnest in 1862.
Hace 3 días · For it was with an eye to the saddles of the Hussars, that he had admired while on a military study tour in Europe, that Captain George B. McClellan from the US Army, created the McClellan, a new cavalry saddle which was then adopted by the U.S. War Department in 1859—on the eve of the American civil war.
Hace 3 días · George G. McClellan, a California native, was a Regular Army veteran and served a post-war Korea tour. His post-army professional career covered 43 years in law enforcement, including the California Highway Patrol and the US Naval Investigative Service (NCIS).
Hace 2 días · Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader who served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850. Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the Mexican ...
