To seal the border and blockade the Southern ports, in order to starve and weaken the Confederacy before starting any combat.
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It took approximately a year to plan D Day. General Eisenhower was put in charge of planning after the invasion of Sicily and he sped up the process.
There were two leaders of British forces in Africa in 1942. For the first half of the year they were led by General Claude Auchinleck, who was then replaced by General Harold Alexander for the second half of the year and the rest of the North African campaign.
General Lee was born on January 19, 1807
In the battle of Quebec year, 1775
In the opening year of the American Civil War (that is, 1861), the Northern "climate" may be generally considered to have gone through two very distinct phases. For the first half of the year, the general feeling throughout the North was positive and confident: a quick victory over the "Johnnies" of the South was anticipated. In the second half of the year, after suffering defeat in the First Battle of Bull Run, this general feeling degenerated into a more sober (even realistic) sense that the war just begun would not end quickly -- nor easily.