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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