Battles With Notably Unsuccessful Frontal Assaults
- Battle of Gettysburg - Pickett's Charge aims at the Union center and is repulsed
- Battle of Fredericksburg - Union army fails to take Marye's Heights
- Siege of Vicksburg - failure of frontal assaults force Grant into siege operations
- Battle of Franklin - repeated Confederate charges are repulsed
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“Historian—An unsuccessful novelist.”
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“The time is now propitious, as he guesses,
The meal is ended, she is bored and tired,
Endeavours to engage her in caresses
Which still are unreproved, if undesired.
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Exploring hands encounter no defence;”
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