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Apr 4, 2023 · Mexican-American War. Captain Robert E. Lee entered Mexico on October 12, 1846, as a staff engineer with the column under Brigadier General John E. Wool. Captain Lee was ordered to join General Winfield Scott at Brazos, Texas, in January of 1847. He was the chief engineer for General Scott in the planned invasion of the Mexican coast.
Portrait of Robert E. Lee by Michael Miley, c. 1870. Lee's military career, which had started at West Point many years before, had ended, and his civilian life began when he returned to Richmond and his family on April 15th. For the next two months Lee lived in a city busily rebuilding itself. That summer, he and his family escaped the chaotic ...
Nov 24, 2009 · In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American ...
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee had famously rejected the command of the Federal forces recruited to defend D.C. He instead opted for the rank of general in the Confederate Army, claiming that he could never fight against his fellow Virginians.
May 14, 2020 · Robert E. Lee was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 to the end of the Civil War. In this role, he was arguably the most significant general of the Civil War. His ability to gain the most from his commanders and men allowed the Confederacy to maintain its defiance of the north against increasing odds.
Robert Edward Lee. Robert E. Lee, 1864. Robert Edward Lee (* 19. Januar 1807 auf der Stratford-Hall-Plantage, Virginia; † 12. Oktober 1870 in Lexington, Virginia) war bis 1861 Oberst des US-Heeres und der erfolgreichste General des konföderierten Heeres. Sein bedeutendstes Kommando während des Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieges (1861–1865) war ...
Robert E. Lee. Robert Edward Lee was born on January 19, 1807, at "Stratford" in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the fifth child born to Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee and his second wife, Ann Hill (Carter) Lee. He grew up in an area where George Washington was still a living memory. Educated in the Alexandria, Virginia, schools, he ...
