Winder's

Everyone wants to know what outsiders think: witness the appetite for English books on Germany, such as Simon Winder's Germania, Peter Watson's The German Genius, and How to be a Kraut by Roger Boyes.

The hesitant saviour: how Germany bestrides Europe once again 2011

Apart from the belligerent century from Bismarck to Hitler, Simon Winder's delightful country of trolls and Rhine maidens, forests and beer, efficient factories and clean hotels, fostered the Reformation, the northern Renaissance and the industrial revolution with none of the trappings of super-statehood.

The hesitant saviour: how Germany bestrides Europe once again 2011

Major Snowden Andrews, Winder's chief of artillery, brought up the best guns available.20

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From field headquarters at the rear of the center of the line, Jackson had been watching the artillery duel and the futile attempt of Winder's men to advance along the road.

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During the late afternoon of that first of June, down the road from Winchester, came the head of Winder's gallant brigade.

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Once he threw the weight of his fresh brigade against the now exhausted Federals, he cleared them speedily from the gap between Winder's right and the shattered left of Garnett's and Taliaferro's brigades.25

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Howard found Jackson in his headquarters tent and reported Winder's illness, and then rushed on: "But he sent me to ask you if there will be a battle, and if so, when and he would be up, and which way the army is going."

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Jackson sought to bring Loring to court-martial; he visited like punishment on Dick Garnett after Kernstown; he protested against the return of Taliaferro to command; he provoked the tender of Winder's resignation.

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Winder's previous actions make it reasonable to conclude that if he had not been wounded when he was, he would have deployed his left anew and, doubtless, more carefully.

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If it could be held until the main body reached there that evening and Winder's brigade arrived the next day, the army was safe.7

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