Did You Know....? - Military Mayhem
At the American Civil War Battle of Antietam in 1862, Unionist Major General Ambrose Burnside surrendered his overwhelming numerical advantage by ordering his men to march in single file across an exposed bridge.
This strategy enabled Confederate marksmen to pick them off one by one.
Only later did Burnside discover that the river beneath the bridge was so shallow it could easily have been crossed on foot.
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