Anaconda Plan
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title:
Anaconda Plan
text:
The Anaconda Plan was a strategy outlined by the Union Army for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War. Proposed by Union General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized a Union blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two. Because the blockade would be rather passive, it was widely derided by a vociferous faction of Union generals who wanted a more vigorous prosecution of the war and likened it t
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Military strategy of the American Civil War
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Plan
date created:
2004-04-13T03:29:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T20:13:10Z
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