Comments by "Steve Watson" (@stevewatson6839) on "TIKhistory" channel.

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  22.  @fredjohnson9833  Ramsey expected to get less than 30'000 away. He got a third of a million off the mole and beaches. I think that says all that needs saying. Antietam was a Union victory. It was in the exploitation of that victory that McClellan fell short. At Oriskany the Americans achieved their objectives and they were left in possession of the battlefield; the Loyalist having retreated to their own lines. American victory; allbeit pyrrhic. What was the objective and was it or wasn't it achieved? is THE question to be answered. If you were asking about the campaigns these actions occured in, you might get a different answer though. McClellan not exploiting his victory certainly lengthened the war by a year or more; those British troops gotten off would, given 'Madman' Churchill, have meant withdrawals from elsewhere and probably butterflied 'Compass' (Hobart's creation in Egypt was probably the ONLY British force that was an all round match for a panzer/panzer grenadier division.) and thrown a spanner into the early demise of Italian East Africa. Moving on four years, we were out of army reinforcements around D-Day, the absence of those saved from the beaches could conciveably have meant the changing-up of the invasion to following Sicily for want of troops on our part. With all the risks that would have entailed. These things therefore can't be considered in isolation; but if we do so consider I don't see where the arguments lie for failure or defeat in any of these cases.
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