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Hello and welcome to my userpage!![]() Hello, editors. I like quotes. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" Albert EinsteinHeptanitrocubane is my nickname. Quotes"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limit." Albert Einstein "Believe you can and you're halfway there." Theodore Roosevelt "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." George Woodberry "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." Benjamin Franklin "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." David Brinkley "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Today's Featured ArticleSteele's Greenville expedition took place from April 2 to April 25, 1863, during the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. Union forces commanded by Major General Frederick Steele (pictured) occupied Greenville, Mississippi, and operated in the surrounding area, to divert Confederate attention from a more important movement made in Louisiana by Major General John A. McClernand's corps. Minor skirmishing between the two sides occurred, particularly in the early stages of the expedition. More than 1,000 slaves were freed during the operation, and large quantities of supplies and animals were destroyed or removed from the area. Along with other operations, including Grierson's Raid, Steele's Greenville expedition distracted Confederate attention from McClernand's movement. Some historians have suggested that the Greenville expedition represented the Union war policy's shifting more towards expanding the war to Confederate social and economic structures and the Confederate homefront. (Full article...)
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