[F&F] Battle Ball's Bluff

 La batalla  de Ball's Bluff, también conocida como La Batalla de Harrison's Island ó la Batalla de Leesburg, tuvo lugar el 21 de Octubre de 1861, en Loudoun County (Virginia), como parte de las operaciones tomadas por el Maj. Gen.George B. McClellan's en el Norte de Virginia durante la Guerra Civil Americana.

    A pesar de ser un combate menor en comparación con las batallas que tendrían lugar en los años siguientes, fue la segunda batalla más grande del teatro del Este en 1861 y tuvo importantes repercusiones sobre la Constitución de los Estados Unidos durante la guerra en referencia a la estructura de mando Unionista y a la separación en cuestiones de competencias.

- http://protocoloel.mforos.com/1253803/9995392-reg-f-f-battle-of-ball-s-bluff-21oct1861/

The Battle of Ball's Bluff in Loudoun County, Virginia on October 21, 1861, was one of the early battles of the American Civil War, in which Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac (Union) suffered a humiliating defeat.

The operation was planned as a minor reconnaissance across the Potomac to establish whether the Confederates were occupying Leesburg. A false report of an unguarded Confederate camp encouraged Brig. Gen. Charles Pomeroy Stone to order a raid, which clashed with enemy forces. A prominent US Senator in uniform, Colonel Edward Baker, tried to reinforce the Union troops, but failed to ensure that there were enough boats for the river crossings, which were then delayed. Baker was killed, and a newly-arrived Confederate unit routed the rest of Stone’s expedition.

The Union losses, although modest by later standards, alarmed Congress, which set-up the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, a body which would provoke years of bitter political infighting.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ball%27s_Bluff

- Y después de la batalla, a por unas buenas cervezas!!!!

- And after the battle, we go for some good beer !!!!

Imagenes:

-http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/balls-bluff/balls-bluff-maps/balls-bluff-map-snedon.jpg
-http://markbusslerblog.blogspot.com.es/2006/12/horses-of-gettysburg-and-visit-to.html