What began as a fruit farm in a village called Admiral is now Fort George G. Meade, a burgeoning military base that furnishes the country with critical intelligence. The Army base, home to the ...

Public Monument Conservation Project, 1986. Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg ...

Gen. George Meade has been called "the Rodney Dangerfield of Civil War generals. He gets no respect. Tom Huntington wanted to find out why." That's how Stackpole Books introduces Huntington's ...

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When the Union field commander, George Gordon Meade, failed to follow up by smashing Robert E. Lee's army, the president made his displeasure known. Meade, who thought he and his men had performed ...

George Meade George Gordon Meade (Dec. 31, 1815-Nov. 6, 1872) was a U.S. Army officer and civil engineer best known for decisively defeating Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of ...