RE: Unit Designations and Meeting Engagements

OK, Gettysburg on the evening of June 30th.  So there :)

Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	Allan Goodall
Sent:	Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:25 AM
To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject:	Re: Unit Designations and Meeting Engagements

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:49:06 -0800, Michael Brown <mwbrown@sonic.net>
wrote:

>Meeting engagement:  Think Gettysburg, or Quarte Bras.  Forces "Bump"
into 
each
>other and units deploy from the March.  Objective is to find the enemy.

Not really Gettysburg. Gettysburg was more Movement To Contact, with
lots of
reinforcements moving in from both sides. May 1 at Chancellorsville (the
first
day of the battle) was a classic meeting engagement.

Sorry, just being pedantic... *grin*

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