Sheridan, Philip Henry

     
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Sheridan Sheridan
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Philip Henry Philip Henry
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Philip Henry Sheridan
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armádní generál General of the Army
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06.03.1831 Albany
06.03.1831 Albany
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05.08.1888 Nosquitt
05.08.1888 Nosquitt
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generál jezdectva Unie
vrchní generál Armády Spojených států
Union cavalry general
general-in-chief of the U.S. Army
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American Civil War. Biographies vol 2, K. Hillstrom a L. C. Hillstrom, UXL 2000, ISBN 0787638226
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Příjmení:
Surname:
Sheridan Sheridan
Jméno:
Given Name:
Philip Henry Philip Henry
Jméno v originále:
Original Name:
Philip Henry Sheridan
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01.07.1848 kadet
01.07.1853 čestný poručík USA
22.11.1854 poručík USA
01.03.1861 nadporučík USA
14.05.1861 kapitán USA
25.05.1862 plukovník USV
01.07.1862 brigádní generál USV
31.12.1864 generálmajor USV
20.09.1864 brigádní generál USA
08.11.1864 generálmajor USA
04.03.1869 generálporučík USA
01.06.1888 armádní generál USA
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01.03.1861 First Lieutenant USA
14.05.1861 Captain USA
25.05.1862 Colonel USV
01.07.1862 Brigadier General USV
31.12.1864 Major General USV
20.09.1864 Brigadier General USA
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01.06.1888 General of the Army USA
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American Civil War. Biographies vol 2, K. Hillstrom a L. C. Hillstrom, UXL 2000, ISBN 0787638226
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General Philip H. Sheridan

(1831 - 1885)

He was born on March 6, 1831 in Albany in the state New York. In 1853, he graduated from West Point as an average of the year.
At the beginning of of the Civil War he was promoted from captain to major general and in April 1864 took command of the cavalry of the Potomac Army. With her, he undertook a campaign through the Shenandoah Valley, leading 50,000 troops from September 1864 to March 1865, crushing Confederate troops in several battles. During this campaign, he used the scorched earth tactics to consistently destroy the supply possibilities of the Confederate forces. He became a national hero for the Northerners.

On April 1, 1865, he completed a victorious campaign at Five Forks, where he defeated the Confederates with 26,000 men, thus enabling the general Grant conquest Petersburg a Richmond. A month later at the Yellow Tavern destroyed the cavalry of the general Stuart. When the last units of the Confederacy surrendered, Sheridan, led by 50,000 cavalrymen, was sent to the Mexican border on the Rio Grande to demonstrate Union support to the government. president Juáreze.

During the reconstruction of the South he was in the functions of military governor Louisiana and Texas, where in 1876 he participated in the war with the Indians on the Red River. Then he made a well-known statement: "The only good Indian is a dead Indian."[/I]

He retired with the rank of army general. No one except Granta a Shermana had no greater merit for victory in the Civil War than he did. He died on August 5, 1885 in Nosquittu in Massachusetts.

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