Snafu: Great American Military Disasters |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Siege of Cartagena 1741 | 9 |
The Campaign of Saratoga 1777 | 23 |
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Admiral advance Allied Amer armored arrived artillery assault attack Auchmuty battle battleships began Bragg brigade British Buenos Aires Burgoyne Burgoyne's Californians campaign Cartagena casualties Cemetery Ridge Chinese Clair Colonel column commander Communist Confederate convoy Corps Craufurd Culp's Hill decision defeat defensive desert Detroit Dewey disaster divisions E-boats enemy escort Exercise Tiger expedition faced failed fighting fire flank fleet force Fort Malden Fredendall French front Gamelin George German Gettysburg Grant guns Halsey heavy hostages Hull hundred ican incompetence Indians infantry Iran Iranian Iraq Japanese Kearney knew Korea Kurita Kuwait Leveson-Gower Leyte Longstreet MacArthur Maginot Line Meade Meuse miles military militia Montojo North Korea officers operation ordered Panzer Popham position President River Rosecrans Saddam sent ships Sidi Bou Zid soldiers Spanish suffered tanks Tet offensive thousand Truman Union Union army United Vernon victory Washington Wentworth Whitelocke William Hull