30th August: Rapunzel.
In 1862 in Northern Virginia, however, Major General John Pope was about to get his long awaited comeuppance. Lee was ready to take the offensive against the man he had come to despise, for his over confident bombast and disregard and disrespect of Virginia and the men he had come east to command.
Not heeding his subordinates’ requests for caution, Pope tried once again to break Jackson’s battered Corps(one Brigade did break, but others plugged the gap). On the union far left were only two brigades of Infantry and they were to be assailed by ten times their number. Three Southern Divisions, Hood’s, Kemper’s and Jones’ crashed onto the field, making short work of the outnumbered Northern troops.
Pope did well to recognise the danger when it appeared and sent four Brigades from three different Divisions to hold at Henry House Hill on his left. Remember this was ground fought over 13 months ago, by much the same men and officers, although most were now promoted.
This time around there would be no rout. Understandably, there was much jubilation on the side of the Southerners and a great loss of morale on the Northern side. This sense of martial superiority, begun last Summer at 1st Manassas, was to continue and come to a head on the field of Gettysburg another Summer from now.
7 years
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i just wanted to say thank you guys for 7 years on this forum
it past pretty fast…
if anybody sees nscwich give him a greeting from me
he was an important part of the forum a long time ago…
i must say i am joyfull that this beautiful game and forum has evolved so much and that we are getting bigger and bigger each day :)
:) to djensen and moderators
and hoping we ll have a political forum restored in the time comes…
cheers and thank You :)
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I can be thankful too,
It’s been maybe 8 or 9 yrs since I joined your Axis and Allies Forum. -
Wow! 7 years is a lot these days. You were here when it was Revised - Pacific - Europe and you have seen the addition of BOTB, D-Day, Guadalcanal, AA50, AA42, AAP40 & AAE40 (AAG40 by inclusion). I expect before it is over we will get a Battle of Kursk or Stalingrad, and the Fall of Berlin, but the global conflict is what the game is all about. If I had a big chunk of money, I might set up a AA club with display cases all around the walls of the room with models of the WWII hardware. It could even become a sort of museum. In the main area there would be tables and chairs, a bit bigger than needed to play AAG40, with coasters for beverages and a dice tower at each table. In a large side room you could just sit and order food like the 19th hole on a golf course, an another small side room would be used by a tournament organizer. In the lobby I would have manaquins dressed in the various uniform of the officers and enlisted men including both theatres for the US and UK troops, and a couple pilots and seamen.
What a dream that would be …
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Amon, I remember when you first came on. I had joined the previous year, I hadn’t become a mod, and we still had Political Discussion. I dreaded when you posted in Political discussions; if I disagreed with you, you were hard to rebut!
Merry Christmas man!
GG
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Although I can not put a year on my involvement with this site, I enjoy rerading all of your post. Thanks for friendships.
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truly one of the best sites of all time
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@Guerrilla:
Amon, I remember when you first came on. I had joined the previous year, I hadn’t become a mod, and we still had Political Discussion. I dreaded when you posted in Political discussions; if I disagreed with you, you were hard to rebut!
Merry Christmas man!
GG
i was much younger than and much more zealous than now ehhe
i apologise for everything
but we need the PD forum back
its part of our lives
we ve been fasting for a very long time ehhe too much xD
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Raise PD from the dead.
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What Dinosaur said I need to win the lotto 24hr gaming W.W.II movies playing on a wall or two the wistle of falling bombs or the scream of the dive bomber the compression of a 16 or 18 in. gun I’m daydreaming again
Tanks you guys are the greatest!
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