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Grant has a brilliantstrategic plan. He's going to move multiplearmies simultaneously to...

Grant • S01E03 • 2020

[tense music] Grant has a brilliant
strategic plan. He's going to move multiple
armies simultaneously to bring about maximum
pressure on the Confederacy while also holding down
Robert E. Lee's much‐vaunted
Army of Northern Virginia at Petersburg. ‐ When Grant starts
to settle in at Petersburg, he sees, "If I put Lee
into a siege, he can't move." "And a Robert E. Lee
who cannot maneuver "is a Robert E. Lee that's not
nearly as dangerous

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Grant has a brilliant strategic plan.

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He's going to move multiple armies simultaneously

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to bring about maximum pressure on the Confederacy

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while also holding down Robert E. Lee's

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much‐vaunted Army of Northern Virginia

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at Petersburg.

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‐ When Grant starts to settle in at Petersburg,

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he sees, "If I put Lee into a siege, he can't move."

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"And a Robert E. Lee who cannot maneuver

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"is a Robert E. Lee that's not nearly as dangerous.

Duration

32 seconds

Views

51

Timestamp in Movie

00:25:33

Uploaded

May 27, 2025

Season

1

Episode

3

Genres

documentary, biography, history

Production

RadicalMedia,Appian Way,A+E Global Media,Lionsgate Television,Film Afrika

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Movie Summary

The documentary-series examines Ulysses S. Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.