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A twelve page paper which looks at Lee’s background and military career, and the way in which his strategies and tactics prolonged the Civil War whilst not allowing him to achieve a final victory over the Union forces despite his use of offensive tactics designed to compensate for the numerical and strategic advantages held by the opposing forces.
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advantages held by the opposing forces. Bibliography lists 13 sources JLLee.wps "Robert E Lee: strengths and weaknesses" Research Compiled for Enterprises, Inc By Jani
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In order to assess Robert E Lees strengths and weaknesses in relation to his military strategy and tactics, it is useful to investigate some elements
of his personal history and background, as these shed some light not only on his motivations and actions during the Civil war, but also on the way in which he
was perceived by those who fought on both sides of the conflict. Thomas (2001) points out that Lee had an inauspicious childhood, in the sense that his father, albeit a
hero of the Revolutionary War, had been forced to flee the country due to difficulties with debt whilst Lee was still a child. The fact that a senior public figure
had succumbed to insolvency and infamy, asserts Thomas, had a significant effect on the way in which Lee perceived his own heritage, and perhaps contributed to his own sense of
honour and integrity. Lee senior had been a governor of Virginia and a congressman,
but he had also been jailed several times for debt as a result of unwise financial speculation and eventually fled to the West Indies in order to recover his health
and attempt to rebuild his finances. The combination of laudable military and public service and the ignominy of debtors prison affected not only Lees perception of his father, but also
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