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1861 cartoon map of Scott's plan with caricatures The snake plan was a strategy outlined by the Union Army for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War . [ 1 ] Proposed by Union General-in-Chief Winfield Scott , the plan emphasized a Union blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down the ...
1861 map of Scott's blockade plan, depicting an Anaconda surrounding the Confederate states with a "strangle hold". General Winfield Scott was one of the few senior men in Washington who realized that this could be a long war. He developed an appropriate naval strategy that would be decisive to the war's outcome.
Scott's great snake, a cartoon map illustrating the Union blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, known as the Anaconda Plan, illustrated by J.B. Elliott C47s unloading at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, part of the airlift of supplies which broke the Soviet Union's 1948 land blockade of West Berlin
An 1861 characterized map of General Winfield Scott's plan for a Union blockade of Southern ports, known as the Anaconda Plan. The blockade, which existed only on paper at this time, became an integral part of the plan to persuade the seceded states to return to the Union that was proposed by General in Chief Winfield Scott.
Gideon Welles, the son of Samuel Welles and Ann Hale, [1] was born on July 1, 1802, in Glastonbury, Connecticut. [2] His father was a shipping merchant and fervent Jeffersonian; [3] he was a member of the Convention, which formed the first state Connecticut Constitution in 1818 that abolished the colonial charter and officially severed the pre-American Revolution political ties to England.
The list of blockades informs about blockades that were carried out either on land, or in the maritime and air spaces in the effort to defeat opponents through denial of supply, usually to cause military exhaustion and starvation as an economic blockade in addition to restricting movement of enemy troops.
The United States crumbles into many hostile nation-states following the effects of the Great War, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. 1999 Brave New World: Superhero game set in a fascist United States of America living in a perpetual state of martial law since the 1960s. 1999 GURPS Alternate Earths and GURPS Alternate Earths II: 2001
Early in the American Civil War, the Union military leadership developed the Anaconda Plan, which was a strategy to defeat the Confederate States of America.A significant component of this strategy was controlling the Mississippi River, thus isolating the western Confederacy from the remainder. [1]