History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 6: The Seven Days' Battle

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🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Union General George B. McClellan, who led 100,000 men and moved as fast as an iceberg, attempted to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond in a series of six different battles along the Virginia Peninsula from June 25 to July 1, 1862). Confederate General Robert E. Lee drove back McClellan’s Union forces from a position 4 miles (6 km) east of the Confederate capital to a new base of operations at Harrison’s Landing on the James River.

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0:00.0	Where are you?
0:01.1	Asteroid City.
0:02.2	From director Wes Anderson.
0:04.0	Welcome to your stargazers and space cadets.
0:06.8	What are those pulses indicate?
0:08.3	The beeps and blips we don't know.
0:09.8	There's an alien.
0:11.8	That actually happened.
0:12.8	This June, place all witnesses under a group arrest.
0:15.8	How long can they keep us in Asteroid City?
0:17.8	I'm in O'Hurry.
0:18.8	I like aliens.
0:19.8	Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks.
0:23.2	What a strange experience this is.
0:25.4	Asteroid City, in cinemas June 23.
0:28.4	Booktickets now.
0:30.2	War has played a key role in the history of the United States.
0:33.6	From the nation's founding, right down to the present.
0:36.4	Wars made the United States independent, kept it together,
0:39.8	increased its size, and established it as a global superpower.
0:43.4	Hi, I'm James Early, host of the Key Battles of American History podcast.
0:47.8	In each episode, I discuss American history through the lens
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