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Title: The American Civil War in four minutes
Post by: JuST Peter on December 08, 2013, 07:49:58 PM

Expand the page and note the casualties tally at the bottom right:

http://www.humanitiestexas.org/archives/digital-repository/civil-war-four-minutes-2007 (http://www.humanitiestexas.org/archives/digital-repository/civil-war-four-minutes-2007)

Title: Re: The American Civil War in four minutes
Post by: Marcus on December 09, 2013, 07:08:33 AM

Wow... that was good, *goes looking for the war of independence *

Title: Re: The American Civil War in four minutes
Post by: Couch on December 09, 2013, 10:00:58 AM

Very interesting!

Title: Re: The American Civil War in four minutes
Post by: saaz on December 09, 2013, 10:31:33 AM

If you want a good insight into the civil war, go looking for the series that was SBS some years ago, called the Civil War.  It was truly aweful, as most civil wars are far more brutal that nation against nation.  For the size of the US population at the time (remember the western part of the US was not very developed) was 35 million, so over a million casualties was very large.

Title: Re: The American Civil War in four minutes
Post by: ST2UP on December 09, 2013, 10:41:06 AM

Very informative  :-++


 :beer

Title: Re: The American Civil War in four minutes
Post by: Biggles on December 09, 2013, 01:58:18 PM

Excellent graphics that just show how persistent the South was, as you watch the lines advance and retreat.
The casualties are horrendous.  I had no idea there were so many significant battles.

Title: Re: The American Civil War in four minutes
Post by: STeveo on December 10, 2013, 06:19:50 AM

We live in such a lucky country. The nearest we ever came to civil war was a few drunken Irishmen at Eureka Stockade fighting the British Nobs over the price of a mining licence.

 :bl11