Streetmap has some handy little arrows on the sides and corners of its map pages. If what you want to see is just off the map...
Meanwhile...I wasn't contesting Custer's appearance at Gettysburg (Meade promoted him on the eve of battle), but rather that Lee's real intention was for Picket et al to 'hold' Meade's centre whilst Stuart went round the back and broke it up. For one, Lee wouldn't have used his best and freshest troops for a holding operation (even one that might have got out of control) and for another, Stuart, even with his entire force, couldn't hope to penetrate Meade's line and sustain an attack. The most expected of Stuart was that he would be in a position to spread 'confusion in the union rear and round up fleeing soldiers'. That from Coddington citing Official Records.
Simon calling the tune in Dartmoor----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 9:55 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Melbourne, Tristam Shandy and Custer at Gettysburg On Feb 3, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Simon Ward wrote:
And if the link - which looks more than cumbersome - doesn't work out just head to:http://www.streetmap.co.uk stick in Melbourne and see for yourself.
See, that's exactly where I was. You hit the zoom out button and you get a little bit more, but not quite enough. So you hit it again and you get a full screen of Blackburn to Northhampton. All I wanted was what was just off the edge of the other map. No doubt I'm just not understanding how the site is supposed to work, but I don't have this problem with most U.S. sites. As for Custer at Gettysburg, well yes he was there. And then he had a whole career, including a court martial for running off to see his sick wife when he should have been chasing around Nebraska, before he arrived at Little Big Horn. Somewhere in the archives of Phil-Lit you may find a post I wrote when I had finished several books about Custer. I was trying to understand why he split his forces at Little Big Horn. The answer is partly that charging in had worked really well for him at Gettysburg and partly that he was really frustrated by his inability to catch up with pony-mounted Native Americans, who weren't hampered by a baggage train loaded with oats, needed as feed for horses that didn't do well on mere plains grasses. David Ritchie, paying the piper in Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
