If you're a history buff, please help me!
Roach-Busters
22-08-2004, 07:47
What was the name of the Civil War general who said, "War is hell."
Thanks!
Incertonia
22-08-2004, 07:51
I believe it was Sherman, right before he burned Atlanta, but I could easily be wrong--there are some Civil War experts on the board who can answer that definitively.
Islam-Judaism
22-08-2004, 07:52
William Tecumeh Sherman
winner. now tell me who the famous Tecumseh was?
Enodscopia
22-08-2004, 07:52
General Sherman.
Tuschemah, the native american?
Roach-Busters
22-08-2004, 07:54
Thanks, guys! :)
Islam-Judaism
22-08-2004, 07:56
yes, Tecumseh, the native american.
Sdaeriji
22-08-2004, 07:56
winner. now tell me who the famous Tecumseh was?
Leader of the Shawnee. Created an Indian confederation to stop the advance of white settlers. Lost at Tippecanoe against WH Harrison. Allied himself with the British in the War of 1812, died at the Battle of the Thames, where the British abandoned Tecumseh and his soldiers to the advancing American army.
Daistallia 2104
22-08-2004, 08:27
And a note of trivia - he may not have said it exactly in thos words.
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but,
boys, it is all hell."
-General William T. Sherman,
speech 1880 from which we derive the phrase "War is hell"