"“If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg”" Topic
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Tango01  | 03 Feb 2020 10:44 p.m. PST |
"The quaint conceit of imagining what would have happened if some important or unimportant event had settled itself differently has become so fashionable that I am encouraged to enter upon an absurd speculation. What would have happened if Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg? Once a great victory is won it dominates not only the future but the past. All the chains of consequence clink out as if they never could stop. The hopes that were shattered, the passions that were quelled, the sacrifices that were ineffectual are all swept out of the land of reality. Still it may amuse an idle hour, and perhaps serve as a corrective to undue complacency, if at this moment in the twentieth century—so rich in assurance and prosperity, so calm and buoyant—we meditate for a spell upon the debt we owe to those Confederate soldiers who by a deathless feat of arms broke the Union front at Gettysburg and laid open a fair future to the world…"
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| ZULUPAUL | 04 Feb 2020 3:24 a.m. PST |
??? Lee lost at Gettysburg, am I missing something? |
| Mollinary | 04 Feb 2020 5:39 a.m. PST |
Yes, you are missing reading the link! It is an example of Winston Churchill's strange sense of humour and boundless imagination in writing a counter factual history essay, purportedly based on speculation concerning an event which did happen, and contrasting it with a description of events which resulted from one which did not. A fascinating find, Armand! |
| ZULUPAUL | 04 Feb 2020 6:13 a.m. PST |
I did read most of it but failed to recognise the "humor" aspect. Mea Culpa |
| donlowry | 04 Feb 2020 9:41 a.m. PST |
There was a pretty good science fiction book written along those lines, called Bring the Jubilee. It's about an historian from a universe in which Lee won at Gettysburg who uses a time machine to go back and study the battle, only to accidentally change the outcome and get stuck in "our" universe. |
| Tango01 | 04 Feb 2020 11:10 a.m. PST |
It's a very British sense of humor….(smile) Glad you like it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement
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| donlowry | 05 Feb 2020 9:54 a.m. PST |
Wait … what? The British have a sense of humor? |
| Tango01 | 05 Feb 2020 11:05 a.m. PST |
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| Mollinary | 06 Feb 2020 5:23 a.m. PST |
Donlowry, You obviously haven't been watching the news lately! |
| Tango01 | 06 Feb 2020 11:49 a.m. PST |
Ha!Ha!…. Amicalement
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