Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Picketts_Charge> ?p ?o }
- Picketts_Charge abstract "Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union positions on Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg in the state of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War. Its futility was predicted by the charge's commander, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, and it was arguably an avoidable mistake from which the Southern war effort never fully recovered militarily or psychologically. The farthest point reached by the attack has been referred to as the high-water mark of the Confederacy.The charge is named after Maj. Gen. George Pickett, one of three Confederate generals who led the assault under Longstreet.After Confederate attacks on both Union flanks had failed the day and night before, Lee was determined to strike the Union center on the third day. On the night of July 2, Meade correctly predicted at a council of war that Lee would try an attack on his lines in the center the following morning.The infantry assault was preceded by a massive artillery bombardment that was meant to soften up the Union defense and silence its artillery, but was largely ineffective. Approximately 12,500 men in nine infantry brigades advanced over open fields for three-quarters of a mile under heavy Union artillery and rifle fire. Although some Confederates were able to breach the low stone wall that shielded many of the Union defenders, they could not maintain their hold and were repulsed with over 50% casualties, a decisive defeat that ended the three-day battle and Lee's campaign into Pennsylvania. Years later, when asked why his charge at Gettysburg failed, Pickett replied: \"I've always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.\"".
- Picketts_Charge thumbnail Thure_de_Thulstrup_-_L._Prang_and_Co._-_Battle_of_Gettysburg_-_Restoration_by_Adam_Cuerden.jpg?width=300.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageExternalLink Numbers_at_Pickett_s_Charge.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageExternalLink Pickett_s_Charge.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageExternalLink g_view_e.html.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageExternalLink Carol+Reardon.aspx.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageExternalLink Pickett%27s-Charge-detail.png.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageExternalLink books?id=UDkOAAAAIAAJ.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageExternalLink v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageID "469583".
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageLength "40595".
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageOutDegree "130".
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageRevisionID "707676995".
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink 121st_Pennsylvania_Infantry.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink 2nd_Vermont_Brigade.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink 8th_Ohio_Infantry.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink A._P._Hill.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Abner_Doubleday.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Alabama.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Alexander_Hays.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Alexander_S._Webb.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Alfred_Moore_Scales.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Alonzo_Cushing.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink American_Civil_War.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Army_of_the_Potomac.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Fredericksburg.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Gettysburg.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Gettysburg,_Third_Day_cavalry_battles.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Birkett_D._Fry.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Brigade.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Cadmus_M._Wilcox.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Canister_shot.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Category:1863_in_the_United_States.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Category:Battle_of_Gettysburg.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Category:Battles_in_Pennsylvania.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Cemetery_Ridge.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Chapman_Biddle.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Colonel.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Confederate_States_Army.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Confederate_States_of_America.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Council_of_war.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Craig_Symonds.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Culps_Hill.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Cyclorama.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink David_J._Eicher.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink David_Lang_(Civil_War).
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink David_McMurtrie_Gregg.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Division_(military).
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Ed_Bearss.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Edward_A._Perry.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Johnson_(general).
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Porter_Alexander.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Evander_M._Law.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink File:Thure_de_Thulstrup_-_L._Prang_and_Co._-_Battle_of_Gettysburg_-_Restoration_by_Adam_Cuerden.jpg.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Florida.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Frank_A._Haskell.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Freeman_McGilvery.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Gabor_Boritt.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink General_officers_in_the_Confederate_States_Army.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink George_J._Stannard.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink George_Meade.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink George_Pickett.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Gettysburg_(1993_film).
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Gettysburg_Battlefield.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Gettysburg_Cyclorama.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Heth.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Jackson_Hunt.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink High-water_mark_of_the_Confederacy.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink II_Corps_(Union_Army).
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink I_Corps_(Union_Army).
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Infantry.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Intruder_in_the_Dust.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Isaac_R._Trimble.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink J._E._B._Stuart.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink J._Johnston_Pettigrew.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink James_Henry_Lane_(Confederate_general).
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink James_K._Marshall.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink James_L._Kemper.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink James_Longstreet.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Jeffry_D._Wert.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink John_B._Bachelder.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink John_Gibbon.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink John_M._Brockenbrough.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Joseph_R._Davis.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Lanchesters_laws.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Lewis_Armistead.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Little_Round_Top.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Major_general_(United_States).
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Melee.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Mississippi.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Mississippi_River.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink National_Park_Service.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Norman_J._Hall.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink North_Carolina.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Paul_Philippoteaux.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Philadelphia_Brigade.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Richard_B._Garnett.
- Picketts_Charge wikiPageWikiLink Richard_H._Anderson.