History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2122 short lesson, about 20 seconds
West Point on Both Sides
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The idea
Commanders on both sides came from West Point or had served together in the Mexican-American War, and could anticipate each other's strategies.
In practice
Both sides believing in concentrated armies attacking the enemy's capital city.
Where people slip
Shared training produces shared doctrine, and that doctrine produces the frontal assaults that made this war so costly.
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