Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 07 Dec 2023 5:01 p.m. PST |
… in history? Interesting question…
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Grattan54 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 07 Dec 2023 6:05 p.m. PST |
Moore's retreat in Spain? Dunkirk? |
Goldwyrm | 07 Dec 2023 6:07 p.m. PST |
One might consider Xenophon and the 10,000 , over 3,000 miles from home, fighting through hostile enemy territory, and taking around two years to get home. |
Perris0707 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 07 Dec 2023 6:09 p.m. PST |
The Allies' withdrawal from Gallipoli. |
Buck215 | 07 Dec 2023 6:53 p.m. PST |
George Washington's escape from Long Island to Manhattan. |
emckinney | 07 Dec 2023 7:10 p.m. PST |
"One might consider Xenophon and the 10,000 , over 3,000 miles from home, fighting through hostile enemy territory, and taking around two years to get home." The Czech Legion in the Russian Civil War, all the way across Siberia. |
ColCampbell ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 07 Dec 2023 8:34 p.m. PST |
All five of these are excellent examples. Jim |
mildbill | 08 Dec 2023 6:23 a.m. PST |
Sigel in the ACW was considered very good at withdrawing. Of course, he was always getting into situations that required a great withdrawal. :) |
Dn Jackson ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 08 Dec 2023 7:05 a.m. PST |
Perhaps Jackson leaving the Shenandoah Valley and joing with Lee for the Seven Days. |
The Virtual Armchair General ![Sponsoring Member of TMP Sponsoring Member of TMP](boards/icons/sponsor.gif) | 08 Dec 2023 11:20 a.m. PST |
The Japanese withdrawal from Guadalcanal in '43. Completely managed to fox the US Navy, and the Army suffered at least another hundred casualties from "friendly fire" while searching the then empty island for an enemy that had already decamped. TVAG |
Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 08 Dec 2023 3:29 p.m. PST |
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doc mcb | 08 Dec 2023 3:52 p.m. PST |
Lee after Gettysburg? Mao's Long March? |
35thOVI ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 08 Dec 2023 5:04 p.m. PST |
In some cases, how much credit should be given to the incompetence of the pursuers? |
Wolfhag ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 08 Dec 2023 7:43 p.m. PST |
Fighting withdraw while constantly pursued by the enemy and fighting. Chosin Reservoir and Xenophon would be in the running. Gallipoli was a genius plan and execution as were the Japanese withdraw from the Aleutians and Guadalcanal. Wolfhag |
Cuprum2 | 08 Dec 2023 9:20 p.m. PST |
emckinney, it's hard to call the attack on Kazan a "retreat through Siberia". Vladivostok was in the opposite direction, several thousand kilometers away))) "Lion's retreat" of the 27th Neverovsky division in 1812. From Wikipedia in an article about General Dmitry Neverovsky: "During the battle of Krasnoye on August 14 with 3 military corps under the command of Marshals Ney and Murat and the retreat after it, he showed high command skill and personal heroism. Despite frequent skirmishes with a numerically superior enemy ( Neverovsky had 6 thousand recruits against 15 thousand from the French), his division, which found itself in combat conditions for the first time, having repelled about 40 cavalry attacks, retreated (twelve miles over 5 hours) in the greatest order. |
Old Contemptible ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 08 Dec 2023 10:46 p.m. PST |
Washington's Continental Army withdrew from Trenton to attack Princeton. Then the withdrawal from Princeton to winter quarters. |
Old Contemptible ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 08 Dec 2023 10:47 p.m. PST |
Chosin Reservoir Dunkirk Corunna German withdrawal from Sicily (August 11, 1943) 2nd Trenton Russian withdrawal from Moscow (1812) American withdrawal from Long Island. |
Wolfshanza ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 08 Dec 2023 11:20 p.m. PST |
Didn't Jubilation T Cornpone pull one off ? ? ![evil grin evil grin](boards/icons/evil_grin.gif) |
doc mcb | 09 Dec 2023 1:30 p.m. PST |
AAANNNDDD Wolfshanza for the win! |
Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 09 Dec 2023 3:20 p.m. PST |
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4th Cuirassier | 12 Dec 2023 3:04 a.m. PST |
Grouchy from Wavre in 1815. |