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With the skyrocketing rate of casualties due to using Napoleonic tactics against new technologies like the machine gun, Generals decided to start using trenches to defend their ground and reduce casualties.
The Union tactics consisted of securing and controlling the high ground. Confederate tactics consisted of advancing across open ground in full view of a well-armed enemy, and assaulting uphill against a numerically superior force.
Verb: 1. to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.2. to lay flat, as on the ground.Adjective6. lying flat or at full length, as on the ground. 7. lying face down on the ground, as in token of humility, submission, or adoration.
Prostrate means to lie flat on the ground, typically with the face downwards. In botany, prostrate means growing along the ground.
head kick him take him down ground and pound submit him when you take him to the ground he just puts you in a submission which is impossible to reverse
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It was burned to the ground during Union Generals Tecumseh Sherman Total War.
During World War II, Hitler's early plan for defeating Great Britain relied on control of the air-space above the island-nation, as a precursor to an amphibious invasion by ground troops. After this plan was thwarted, he turned more resolutely to a submarine campaign which intended to starve Great Britain into submission.
He was a great general who won many battles.
Historically, the number of legs the horse has off the ground is symbolic of how the rider died.Four feet on the ground did not die in battle or of battle wounds.Three feet on the ground died of wounds sustained in battle.Rearing, died in battle.
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