The American Civil War was in an extremely tragic state from the very beginning.

At the same time that Hamilton Davies decided to take the initiative to attack, Zachary Taylor of the North finally made up his mind to sweep the South in one fell swoop.

At that time, he also made up his mind about an assassination - but whenever the situation is in turmoil, these tricks are more and more.

The assassination was unsuccessful, but it left Zachary Taylor in bed for a week before getting out of bed. After all, he is an old man who is about to be 70, and no matter how good he is, he can't beat the years.

He would often talk nonsense, and if he didn't have a scratch paper to remind him of his speech in Congress, he would suddenly forget what he was going to say. At one point, he even accidentally slipped some soup in his pants.

The assassination left him in bed for a week, but it also made him realize that his time was probably running out.

He also thought about the matter of "Lichu" for a while, but after thinking about it, he still forgot it. He felt that the current White House was full of fools, and since Polk's death, the huge Democratic Party has suddenly disappeared, and no one has been able to come out to clean up the mess.

What an opportunity!

If Zachary Taylor is a few dozen years younger, he thinks that he is afraid that he will have to jump back again, and take over the Democratic Party at this time, and maybe he can still knead it with the Whig Party - MD, but as long as there are conditions for that one party, who wants to have two parties?

But not one of the buzzing crowds in Washington had such an eye!

He can't help but feel a little nostalgic for his youth, when America was full of careerists and talents. Find a guy flying a kite in the wild, and you can go to Washington to preside over the overall situation, pick up a brick and throw it down the streets of New York, and you can hit at least two entrepreneurs.

Where is it now, when the Democratic Party is in the midst of an eventful season, and there is not even a single person who dares to stand up and take the lead at this time — no, there is one, Jefferson Davis, who not only picked the beam, but also picked the beam to the South......

He also didn't know how the young generation of Americans, who were once as numerous as a herd of wildebeests crossing a river, suddenly became mediocre. Graduates of the West Point Military Academy, the accidental death rate has suddenly increased over the years.

After lying on the ground for seven days, Zachary Taylor finally figured out that he had to solve the Southern problem once and for all while he was still alive.

He didn't believe much in the wisdom of posterity!

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Before the Northern Confederation did it, they were also worried that the Indians in the west would come and steal the peaches.

However, unlike the South, which chose to make a secret treaty with the Indians, Zachary Taylor initially chose to send Assassins to kill the turtledove.

However, after the Assassins were dispatched, there was no more news, and he waited until he was assassinated, and then decided not to wait any longer.

He thought, as long as the speed of the Northern Army is fast enough, with the military level of the Indians, there will be no time to react!

He had McClallen lead the Potomac Legion from Washington to Richmond in an attempt to reverse the current ossification with a lightning victory.

Zachary Taylor was not a man of military adventurism in his youth, as you can tell from the three years he waited in Texas for an opportunity, he was an extremely patient and long-term man.

But by the end of 1852, Zachary Taylor, who had experienced a devastating defeat in Mexico, had distorted his life experience.

What's more, he feels that his biggest enemy right now is time!

He was almost 70 years old, and for a week in bed after his assassination, he had been battling the fate of the old man, but in the end he reluctantly admitted that he had failed.

He can't beat time.

So, he doesn't have the patience to slowly get through with the South - his opponent Jefferson Davis is only 45 years old!

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The 1st Infantry Division, led by McClellan himself, had a total of 3

000 people, while marching to the Benniu River, happened to meet the southern army that was crossing the river.

The North wants a "lightning victory", so why not the South?

Both sides thought of going together.

The war broke out directly along the Benniu River, and 3,000 men of the Northern Army and 5,000 of the Southern Army resolutely entered the battle.

Neither side thought of retreating, because behind each other, there were still a large number of reinforcements.

Reinforcements from the Northern Army arrived first, and Philip Sheridan's cavalry was on McClellan's right flank. The addition of this cavalry unit almost directly collapsed the Southern Army.

But the commander of the Southern Army, Longstreet, after withdrawing his troops across the Benniu River, held the line by relying on a river only five or six meters wide.

Then reinforcements from the Southern Army also arrived.

The total number of troops engaged in the battle on both sides rapidly increased from less than 10,000 in the morning to more than 20,000 in the evening.

The Southern Army attempted to cross the Benniu River at night and recapture the front on the other side of the river, but failed.

By daybreak, McClellan of the Northern Army had built a number of pontoon bridges from small boats.

Fierce battles soon began again, with both sides throwing their soldiers into the battlefield at any cost, both trying to overwhelm each other in one fell swoop.

In this war, both sides made a fatal mistake - that is, it was not clear at all how many opponents they really had!

Whether it is the Southern Army or the Northern Army, they only know that they are well prepared, and they have almost endless reinforcements in their rear, and this battle will be won!

It was this kind of cognition that made the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army, McClellan, and the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, Longstreet, have an illusion that as long as they work harder, the opposite side will collapse!

As a result, this battle lasted for a week!

In total, the two sides invested more than 150,000 troops, including 80,000 in the north and 70,000 in the south.

For the first 3 days, both sides thought they were attacking, but for the next 4 days, both sides actually wanted to go on the defensive.

But the battlefield was already in tatters.

The basic common sense of the line infantry is that they must not turn around and retreat when confronting the enemy, and once they enter the battlefield, they can only move forward and forward......

The most elite teams of the Northern Army and the Southern Army were thus consumed by each other on the battlefield of the Benniu River.

It is an indisputable fact that the weapons and equipment of the northern army are better, but the quality of the southern army is much stronger than that of the northern army. The economic structure of the Northern Army dictated that the vast majority of its soldiers were artisans, clerks, workers, peasants, and vagabonds, while the Southern Army was horseback cowboys, professional bandits, slave overseers, or professional soldiers.

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The Northern Army called this battle the "Battle of Massanas", and the Southern Army called it the "Battle of the Benniu River".

It was the first large-scale collision between the North and the South, and both sides claimed victory.

Within the United Arab Emirates, this war is known as the "Seven-Day War."

Shortly after the end of the "Seven-Day War", Britain, France, Russia, Austria and other countries ended their wait-and-see state, and unlike their one-sided support for the Yugoslav army in another time and space, this time they verbally stated that they wanted to be "neutral".

But one ship after another, laden with munitions, docked on the high seas west of the Atlantic, regardless of north and south, and whoever paid for it was sold to whomever it paid!

There were also a number of other businesses on board, and the "Hermes of the Sea" quickly became so famous that even Tafari went up to play a few games. According to himself, he made a lot of money, and he is ready to do it again in the next year!

[In view of the general environment,

Soon after the Seven-Day War, the New Year of 1853 arrived. Kataruga visited the young officers in the prison, released them from prison, and told them, "We have won a great victory in the east, and we have destroyed more than 100,000 enemies!"