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Jefferson Davis was famously reluctant for Confederate forces to invade the North at all, and my understanding of Lee's motivation for invading Maryland and Pennsylvania was purely to get a better bargaining position and pressure the Union into recognizing the Confederacy.

So - was this pretty much true across the board? Was there a movement, faction, or any individuals who backed secession but actually wanted more (such as a complete take over the Union and essentially go from the United States back to confederacy model rather than having two separate countries). Maybe some believed the Union would never stop until they'd won or were destroyed? It seemed clear early on that the South simply didn't have the capabilities or infrastructure in place to win a protracted conflict since most the manufacturing and industrialization was to the North, perhaps this would have contributed to such a sentiment?

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What are the duties and orders i have to fulfill? How long would my "work day" be during the siege? And what could I do to pass the time and have fun? where there games and contests that took place inside the camp or even brothels to ease the tension among the men?

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My grandmother was born in 1923. So she was almost 20 during WW2. Lived in Southern Sweden, around 60km south of Gothenburg. She sais she heard bombs and aeroplanes etc. Could this be true?

So I've been reading a few full length books recently, such as 'A Concise History of Germany' by Fulbrook (approx. 1500-2000) and also David Law's account of the UK's Coalition government (May 2010-May 2015). But I've also been listening to the BBC's History Extra podcast where they get fully fledged academic historians to come and discuss their work every week.

Simply put, I realised that there was some qualitative difference between the works that academics were writing and the work I'm reading. Put I can't put my finger on it. What's the difference here? How does one make this sort of high functioning history? What are the methods and the methodology? Is there even a clear cut difference?

Catalans, Basques, Galicians, Andalusians - all seem like nations ready and willing to be sovereign, mostly in the world of Europe where everyone fights for their local independence. So how did they all end up as a single, Spanish nation? Is the answer as easy as "Empire", or is it more complex?

A friend was telling me about a story of a German cargo submarine which was used to circumvent the British blockade early in WWI. It facilitated trade with ports in New England and made two recorded trips.

Is this story true? What was the name of this boat? Is there any further research out there?

Before their conquest by Alexander, what was the extent of the Achaemenid Empire's knowledge of world geography? Would Carthage around 300 BCE be known to them? What about Italy and Spain?

I'm currently writing a Walker attempted assassination / JFK assassination short story, and although it's going great, I need to be as historically accurate as possible. This is the only trouble I have regarding this.

One of my greatest questions about the situation of the Berlin wal isl why would people try to jump over a wall made to be impossible to jump over instead of driving a few hours west and crossing in one of the least dangerous zones?

Another way to put this question is, what kind of provisions did Eastern Germany make to make sure people were not crossing the border throughout its entire frontier with Western Germany?

I see modern special forces today wearing masks as a tool of psychological warfare? Why didn't armies before wore masks during battle to have a psychological effect on their opponent? Was there an instance of a military doing this in history?

Poisonous foods were a no brainer. You eat, you die. But how about certain foods which are nutritional or beneficial for a certain reason. To cure a cough for instance.

The common imagery that comes to mind when thinking of liberated cities of WW2 is people in the streets waving flags and hugging solders as they marched down the street (I think I've seen footage of such events). Was that just press re-enactments or was it real. If so, how was it organized? Where did they get the flags? If not, what was the liberation actually like?