He created it as a blueprint to be used for the defeat of the Confederate States in the US Civil War.
There were mixed reviews by the North at the beginning of the Civil War that the Anaconda Plan was a viable plan. The plan was proposed by Winfield Scott, General-in-Chief.
The Anaconda Plan. It was designed to work like a great snake, strangling the south by naval blockade, thus cutting off their supplies.
Winfield Scott, whose picture is above, created a plan that became known as the "Anaconda Plan".
The Union or the US side had the Anaconda Plan. It was devised by the aged General In Chief, Winfield Scott. It was a plan to blockade the Southern coast and capture ports along the Mississippi River in order to choke off Confederate supply lines from Europe as well as from the western reaches of the Confederacy.
the Chinese (New Respondent) Sounds like Winfield Scott. He guessed that it would be a long war, and devised a strategy of slow stragulation of the Confederacy, ridiculed as the Anaconda Plan.
General Winfield Scott.
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the Anaconda Plan
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Winfield Scott
The Anaconda Plan was created in 1861 when the Civil War started. The plan was put into action by Lieutenant General Winfield Scott.
It called for a long, drawn-out war.
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There were mixed reviews by the North at the beginning of the Civil War that the Anaconda Plan was a viable plan. The plan was proposed by Winfield Scott, General-in-Chief.
The Anaconda plan
That was Winfield Scott, the General-in-Chief who was still in the chair in 1861, although far too old for the job. His long-term plan for the war was ridiculed as 'Scott's Anaconda' (slow strangulation) at a time when almost everyone else thought it would be a short and fairly bloodless war. Time would prove him right, and the Union did eventually put this sort of plan into effect.