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General Robert E. Lee

Robert E lee was born January 19, 1807 at Stanford in Westmoreland country, Virginia .He was the fifth child born to the lee family. He grew part in the part was George Washington was in. He had many ties to the revolutionary war hers/his was educated in Alexandria, viridian, he was commission to brevet 2nd lieutenant of engineers. He was put into a higher rank during a the Mexican war were he was promoted to colonel performing vita scouting mission later he became the general of Virginia and soon after the south seceded from the states he was ask from Lincoln to be the general from the north. But he rejects the offer and went to the south.

Robert E Lee strategy was to stay and defend it self from the north to ruin the union fighting sprits. The offense of strategy was to attack the center of the union which was washigton.he also tried to win foreign support, particularly from Britain, though the use of cotton diplomacy (this was the use of confederacy......

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