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cogadh cathartha SAM/US civil war

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  • 27-02-2011 1:55pm
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    Gael Uirbeach
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    conas atá sibh, ive been reading up on the US civil war recently and came across an argument regarding the Union victory/confederate loss. Think it was McPherson, basically he was saying that it wasn't the unions superiour numbers in man power/industry that led to the confederate loss, his reasoning is that in history there are various examples of other smaller nations takong on superiour enemies and winning, the examples he gives were, the US vs Britain in War of Independence, Greece vs the Ottoman Empire in Greek war of Independence and North Vietnam vs US, but I was thinking, in all of the examples he gives didnt the "weaker" nation have huge support from bigger nations openly/behind the scenes? Im not too sure as ive only touched over the wars he mentioned but didnt the Americans have French support in the wr of independence, and didnt the Greeks from not only the French but the British and Russians too? and not too sure about the extent of this one but didnt the Vietnamese have support from the Soviet Union, China and North Korea? I thought someone might have an idea as to the amount of support these nations gave because if it was in anyway substantial wouldnt it basically make McPhersons argument null and void?


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