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The top commander was General Tadamachi Kuribayashi,a former samurai and one of Japan's greatest generals.He killed himself at the end of Iwo Jima to avoid being captured by the Americans.
Gen. McClellan was in command during the Pennisular Campaign that included a few battles and some that didn't happen. Williamsburg, Yorktown, Drewey's Bluff, Hannover Courthouse, Battle of Seven Pines, and Seven Days Battle. His command culminated in the Battle of Antietam. Soon after the battle, President Lincoln visited Gen. McClellan at the battle field and annonced his replacement. In 1864, McClellan ran against President Lincoln, thus his only political battle. General McClellan was a cautious general and tended to avoid battles. But he was responsible for training the Union army that would continue to have an impact on the battles that followed.
He didn't have a plan to avoid the Battle of Five-Armies. He slipped on his Ring, though, so that no one would see him. Although when the eagles came to their aid, he gave a shout of glee, and it earned him a great rock thrown at his head. He blacked out, and lay there invisible through the rest of the battle.
President Carter did not support the amnesty for men who left the US to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war due to his will to win the war and defeat Vietnam.
because he did NEW RESPONDENT Because both positions were no more defensible and had to be abandoned in order to avoid the capture of the Confederate government and the annihilation of the Army of Northern Virginia.