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Divided by a common language. You should insist that the battle of Sharpsburg is always to be referred to as Antietam. After all, the victors get to write the history. Don't you empowered yankees get to be authoritative over your vanquished foes?

Sharpsburg. The bloodiest day in American history. 22,000 plus casualties. Incredible when you consider that this war was fought mainly with muzzle-loading rifles and percussion cap side-arms; blades and slow to load (muzzle) artillery. That's a lot of work. Imagine how more efficient the killing would be with automatic firearms, breech loading artillery, amoured vehicles and air-support?  Would the killing simply be over more quickly, or would there be more of it? I guess that McClellan could have killed thousands more of the retreating Confederates, annihilating them in the manner that Lincoln demanded.

the sting is in the tale.

Why?

Oceanid

Do not go gentle into that

de haut en bas

Hind

Gay Gordon

Ben and Jerry

The Horten Ho 229

The Horten Ho

Devil in disguise