2007-08-14 21:34:18 · 36 answers · asked by A True Gentleman 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
An aide to General Lee on September 17th, 1862.
That day in history was the Battle of Sharpsburg/Antietam and Lee was brilliant at holding off the Union and maintaining a stronghold on his chosen ground.
g-day!
2007-08-15 00:15:48 · answer #1 · answered by Kekionga 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Historical - Lady Jane Grey - her story has always fascinated me. This 16 year old girl manipulated by the men in power to become Queen for 9 days and then to be beheaded by Bloody Mary because she refused to give up her Protestant faith and become a Catholic.
I suppose that today we don't understand the power religious beleifs had over people in the 16th Century. I can't see how one form of Christianity over another is worth dying for but thats putting a 21st Century perspective on it. I guess asking Jane Grey to become Catholic would be like asking her to give up everything she was and stood for and believed in.
But then to die at such a young age - again maybe we don't understand their attitude to death as death was a far more common occurence back then, for young as well as old . . .
2007-08-18 06:49:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
General Robert E Lee
the day of Stonewall Jackson's flanking attack at Chancelorsville. I would take personal control of the battle and make sure The Army Of The Potomac was penned against the river and had no choice but surrender or annihilation.
2007-08-15 05:05:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jessica Alba
2007-08-14 22:15:55 · answer #4 · answered by Tuna-San 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a really good question. There are so many historical characters that you could be, it's difficult to pick. Well for what its worth, here's my offering. I would be King Arthur. Just to see if I could have pulled that stupid sword out of that bloody stone.
2007-08-18 08:09:14 · answer #5 · answered by grandpapidood 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oliver Cromwell
2007-08-14 22:07:18 · answer #6 · answered by los 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mary Wollstencroft - wrote "Rights for Women" following on from Thomas Paine's "Rights for Man".
I would have loved to have lived when there was tremendous political change arising from the French Revolutions and been able to have had some hand in making it happen.
2007-08-16 03:51:31 · answer #7 · answered by Steffie Sue 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Myself
2007-08-14 23:11:05 · answer #8 · answered by jay58 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think i would like to try being someone like Cleopatra or Elizabeth the 1st to c wot it was like to live in the Elizabethen times or the egyptian times and to find out how Cleo dies in a weird and warped way lol
2007-08-14 23:02:42 · answer #9 · answered by IluvS.V.S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Delorean
2007-08-14 21:36:48 · answer #10 · answered by john 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋