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@siuansanche10 @Playdoh59048217 @MastodonSteaks Have you read the book? I found it to be a pretty good adaptation.

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@JLBKL @ArmchairW I believe if either the Union or CSA faced the British in open field it’d have been disaster, as an example. British training allowed their troops to effectively use their rifle muskets. Being battle hardened doesn’t matter as much when you’re getting picked off 1000 yards out.

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@JLBKL @ArmchairW Chassepot wasn’t introduced until 1866. Rifle muskets were pretty much the standard until breech loading rifles caught on almost immediately post war.

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@9mmballpoint If either side faced British in the field it would have been disastrous. The British extensively trained their infantry in marksmanship and could effectively use their rifle muskets out to 1000 yards, while the Union and CSA were only able use their rifles close range.

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@SenatorLetucius @ArmchairW Britain and France ways of getting cotton through their colonial holdings and the public sentiment in Britain heavily opposed slavery. Besides, the Russian fleets didn’t arrive until 1863-1864, so there were a couple years where the French and British could have intervened.

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@SenatorLetucius @ArmchairW The Russians didn’t blockade the south, but they did position their fleets outside of Northern ports to deter intervention (which likely wouldn’t have happened anyway) from France and Britian. If it wasn’t for the Union blockade, the CSA would have mass conscripted immigrants too

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@UnravelingMan @ArmchairW Outside of Chickamuaga the Confederacy lost every major land battle in the Western theater. And frankly their victories in the East can be contributed to the incompetence of the Union commanders of the AoP then to any tactical/strategic brilliance on the side of the CSA.

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@ArmchairW The same Confederate Army that lost pretty much every major battle in the Western Theater could roll European armies with better training and doctrine?

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@Gabe_D_Coleman @ArmchairW What tactics did they use? The French, British and Russians had already experienced trench warfare in the Crimea 6 years prior to the start of the Civil War. The war devolved into trench warfare due to the Russians taking massive casualties in the field in direct assaults.

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@alcibiades5410 @nise_yoshimi Tbh rifling didn’t really matter during the Civil War. Most engagements happened within the effective range of smoothbore muskets. It takes A LOT of training to properly use a rifle musket. Neither side had the time nor resources to train their men in anything other than drill.

[MA5K CEO @Nobbie_OCs]

Since there's a new one coming out, now's as good a time as any to rewatch The Mummy because man, it's kino

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@dern2395 @hell_let_loose Not true at all. The M79 was phased out of frontline use in Army units starting in 1970 and were fully replaced by early 1971. The Marines never got 203s in country though.

[Christopher Moltisanti Weighs In On Current Events @MoltisantiThots]

Palestine's in Ohio? So where's Israel, in Michigan?

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Getting stung by a bee/wasp was a top 5 fear for me as a child

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@RockyBalbofa Sure bud

[debo @killmefam]

Would you eat at nascar refuel every day for a year breakfast lunch and dinner for a million dollars

[Barry @BarryOnHere]

Coffee literally tastes like shit.

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I Am Legend (2007) is peak Will Smith and I will not be told otherwise.

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Anytime I see one of these mfs I know I’m about to get the most watered down soda known to man