Gunfreak  | 09 Dec 2018 4:26 a.m. PST |
Yorktown. Led directly to the colonists loosing a benign and gentle democratic government. |
| ZULUPAUL | 09 Dec 2018 4:27 a.m. PST |
Gunfreak, Not what many of us think here in the USA IMHO. |
| robert piepenbrink | 09 Dec 2018 4:55 a.m. PST |
I'm with Zulupaul. Gunfreak, you might want to contemplate the price the Irish would pay to rid themselves of that same "benign and gentle democratic government" and how long it would take them. How the British treated themselves is not how they treated others. I'm just embarrassed by the long roll of "why do we pay these guys?" battles. All armies sometimes have an inept commander, but we have a serious list of battles lost because no one trained the troops. Bladensburg, Chrysler's Farm and the surrender of the 106th Infantry Division still to come, I should think. |
| PzGeneral | 09 Dec 2018 5:42 a.m. PST |
I also don't believe the British Government was then or is today a "democratic government"…. At least not how a Democracy works as was explained to us in school… |
| 14Bore | 09 Dec 2018 6:11 a.m. PST |
Gunfreak too funny but not even close.
Don't think Battle of the Bulge was that big a disaster, and have read much on it. |
| Joe Legan | 09 Dec 2018 7:02 a.m. PST |
Blackhawk down. Great courage shown but a heartbreaking day for the modern military. Joe |
| USAFpilot | 09 Dec 2018 7:46 a.m. PST |
The TET OFFENSIVE was a huge US military victory. The VC were wiped out, which is what the NVA wanted along with the propaganda which would play out by an unwitting press. |
| TNE2300 | 09 Dec 2018 8:49 a.m. PST |
1983 Beirut barracks bombings |
| Scott MacPhee | 09 Dec 2018 9:35 a.m. PST |
Other: Battle of Mogadishu, 1993 |
| BW1959 | 09 Dec 2018 9:46 a.m. PST |
Only two votes for the Battle of the Wabash !
The worst defeat of the U.S. Army link |
| Cerdic | 09 Dec 2018 1:10 p.m. PST |
Oi! Gunny mate. Oo are you calling 'benign and gentle'? The cheek of it! Bloody Vikings…. |
| robert piepenbrink | 09 Dec 2018 1:41 p.m. PST |
I'm surprised Desert One isn't scoring better. To spend months planning an operation and have it fail with fatalities and equipment losses without even making contact with the enemy is some sort of record. Are people using "burning of Washington" because they can't remember Bladensburg? Having the capital burnt was a national humiliation, but Bladensburg ranks with Camden as a military one. I passed on the Battle of the Wabash myself, BW1959. Embarrassing, certainly, but woodland Indian battles are pretty much all or nothing. It's the open field battles where we brought a bunch of armed men instead of an army I keep clicking on. Heaven knows there are enough of them. |
| rmaker | 09 Dec 2018 3:09 p.m. PST |
Congress failing to pass the military appropriation and then letting St. Clair keep it going out of his own pocket (late 18th Century, 1787, I think). |
| Old Contemptibles | 09 Dec 2018 8:30 p.m. PST |
An American Army won every ACW battle. |
| General Kirchner | 10 Dec 2018 11:49 a.m. PST |
yes, but not a U.S. military army. Lots of disasters, and my votes were hard for this group to pick out. Might be a poll that has been one of the hardest for me. |
| The Beast Rampant | 10 Dec 2018 12:10 p.m. PST |
+1 Rallynow And I assume Gunfreak was joking. Hopefully. |
| 14Bore | 10 Dec 2018 2:54 p.m. PST |
Use to work with a guy ( a sub contactor of company I worked for that was there at the Beirut bombing. I hadn't seen him in many years and think he has since died. |
| Old Contemptibles | 11 Dec 2018 8:56 a.m. PST |
Kirchner you got me there. I thought the OP was a black day for the American Army. My bad. |
