UNON JACK
Stalin.
Blockade runners.
The line of the River Ohio, with its tributaries Cumberland and Tennessee
Gettysburg - he attempted to drive the Unon troops off a hill called Little Round Top.
The Union Jack or Union Flag to give it its proper name, is an amalgamation of the flags of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Romania was not part of the Soviet Unon although it was one of the Eastern Bloc of nations allied to the Soviet Union.
No, China is not part of the Soviet Union and never has been. In fact, as of December 8, 1991, no country is "part of the Soviet Unon" because the Soviet Union was dissolved and no longer exists.
Simply, it could manufacture all manner of war-supplies, including the latest rifle-barrelled artillery, while the agricultural South was increasingly unable to import anything, because of the Unon Naval blockade.
His colleagues said that this would make it look like a desperate gesture - trying to assert a moral war-mission to take people's minds off defeat. He ought to wait for a Unon victory, in order to carry conviction. In addition and of great importance was that they did not want Lincoln's emancipation to cause problems in the "Border States" where slavery existed and were not included in the final emancipation issued on January 1, 1863.
Lee thought secession was a tremendous mistake and that it would result in anarchy. Lee did not doubt that secession was perfectly legal and constitutional, though. Most southerners believed that secession was legal and possible, even if not wise or recommended. Northerners had been the first to propose secession, first in the 1790s and again during the War of 1812, which was vastly unpopular in the Yankee states of the northeast, who traded heavily with Britain. The northerners continued to grow rich on a treasonable trade with the enemy during the War of 1812, and went so far as to call a secession convention of northern states at Hartford, Connecticut in 1815. By the time the convention met the war was over, so the idea went no farther. In that sense, Lincoln was the true revolutionary. Lincoln sought, successfully, to change the terms upon which the Union was organized. Before the Civil War the US was exactly what its name says - united States, in the sense that each state was a sovereign entity. The states had voluntarily joined this Union, surely they could leave if they no longer wished to be a part of it. Lincoln changed all this. The country went from being a loose agglomeration of somewhat united states into one, single, INDIVISIBLE nation, all as a result of the war. Before, the central government was a weak one of LIMITED POWERS. On paper, it still is. In practice we have an ever growing central government, with its nose in every aspect of everybody's business, a trend which began with the northern victory in the civil war.
== == The Merrimack (CSS Virginia) was larger, heavier and mounted more guns. The USS Monitor was smaller and lighter but that made it more maneuverable and gave it a shallower draft, allowing it to go into much shallower water than could the Virginia. Although the Monitor had only two guns, they were mounted in a rotating turret, allowing her to train them on the Virginia regardless of the relative positions of the two ships. The Virginia, like all other ships of the day, had to maneuver the entire ship in order to bring her guns to bear.