Chancellorsville is known as Lee's " perfect battle " because his risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force resulted in a significant Confederate victory.

The victory, a product of Lee's audacity and Hooker's timid decision making, was tempered by heavy casualties and the mortal wounding of Lt. Gen. Thomas J.

Burnside's former command, the IX Corps, was transferred to the Virginia Peninsula, a movement that prompted the Confederates to detach troops from Lee's army under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, a decision that would be consequential in the upcoming campaign.

He allowed his disagreement with Lee's decision to affect his conduct.

It is not clear that Lee had made a bad strategic decision: he believed himself outnumbered ( which he in fact was: British commander Sir Henry Clinton had 10, 000 troops to Lee's 5, 440 ), and that a retreat was reasonable.

Pickett's loss at Five Forks triggered Lee's decision to abandon his entrenchments around Petersburg and begin the retreat that led to his surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9.

After Lee's death, his fiancée Eliza Hutton and his mother supported director Alex Proyas ' decision to complete The Crow.

More importantly, Lee's decision bought time for the Union to push to the front the Army of the Potomac's II, V, and VI Corps, which had been brought from the Peninsula and — much to Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's dismay — placed under Pope's command.

Despite moderate success, Lee's fame did not derive so much from his talent as the decision of Frank Skinner and David Baddiel to lampoon him, obsessively taking shots at his " pineapple " haircut on their laddish football chat show Fantasy Football League.

He found much wrong with Principal Lee's decision to give the rabbi who was planning to offer the graduation invocation a pamphlet on composing prayers for civic occasions:

Several motives led to Lee's decision to launch an invasion.

The supporters and the players were surprised at his decision, and manager Robson was sorry about the situation but respected Lee's decision.

The loss of the Confederacy's last port was a major factor in Robert E. Lee's decision to surrender at Appomattox.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

He also performed several stunts for the film, including the scene where Lee's character quickly climbs a rooftop at night.

Lee's nephew, Fitzhugh Lee, also arrived at the academy in 1852.

* Interactive Animation of the Battle of Gettysburg-A chronicle of the 3-day battle, it also touches on Lee's tactical strategies during the American Civil War.

Mr. Lee also wrote the Gamelords ' supplement " Lee's Guide to Interstellar Adventure " in the early 1980s.

Lee's Confederate troops began deserting in large numbers to the Army of the Potomac ; disease and lack of supplies also weakened Lee's forces.

Lee's elder brother Peter Lee ( 李忠琛 ) would also join him in Seattle for a short stay before moving on to Minnesota to attend college.

Yun Kuen Lee's criticism of nationalist sentiment in developing an explanation of Three Dynasties chronology focuses on the dichotomy of evidence provided by archaeological versus historical research, in particular the claim that the archaeological Erlitou Culture is also the historical Xia Dynasty.

It also made a notable appearance during the opening credits of Spike Lee's 2002 film 25th Hour.

Longstreet was selected for this assignment partially due to enmity on Bragg's part, but also because the War Department intended for Longstreet's men to return to Lee's army and this movement was in the correct direction.

When he received news of Lee's surrender, Forrest also chose to surrender.

Blackface and minstrelsy also serve as the theme of Spike Lee's film Bamboozled ( 2000 ).

He also starred in, and performed action choreography for, Daniel Lee's Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon, with Andy Lau and Maggie Q.

Beauregard also proposed a grand strategy — submitted anonymously through his political allies so that it was not tainted by his reputation — to reinforce the Western armies at the expense of Robert E. Lee's army in Virginia, destroy the Federal army in Tennessee, which would induce Ulysses S. Grant to relieve pressure on Vicksburg and maneuver his army into a place where it could be destroyed.

There's also one of burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee's slinky black beaded costumes, which turned many a head back in the day. And don't forget the outfit worn by the " Viking Giant " himself, Johann K. Peturson.

Raymore is the strongest contributor to the Raymore-Peculiar school districts, which also includes students from the surrounding areas of Lee's Summit, Peculiar, and unincorporated Cass County.

The Battle of Shepherdstown ( also known as the Battle of Boteler's Ford or Cement Mill ) occurred on September 20, 1862, during Lee's retreat.

Lee's Summit is also home to Lee's Summit Historical Cemetery.

Lee's Summit is also home to a branch of Baker University.

Haslet is also home to a couple of small restaurants including Mr. Jim's Pizzaria, Lee's Barbeque and some other small restaurants.

Fishburne also starred as " Dap " in Spike Lee's School Daze ( 1988 ).

She was also immortalized in Golden Earring's 1973 hit " Radar Love ": " Radio's playing some forgotten song / Brenda Lee's ' Coming on Strong '.

Lee's son Thomas Rex Lee would also graduate from BYU and then the University of Chicago Law School before clerking for Judge Harvie Wilkinson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and then Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court.

Anne Lee's family was often succored by a relative, William Henry Fitzhugh, who owned the Oronoco Street house and allowed the Lees to stay at his home in Fairfax County, Ravensworth.

His performance at the bloody Battle of Antietam blunted Lee's invasion of Maryland, but allowed Lee to eke out a precarious tactical draw and avoid destruction, despite being outnumbered.

Inosanto is one of three people allowed by Bruce Lee to teach his Martial Arts system ( Taky Kimura and James Yimm Lee being the other two ), and the only one to be given Instructorship in Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do of the third level.

Shortly after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Pope wrote a letter to Edmund Kirby-Smith offering the Confederates in Louisiana the same surrender terms that Grant allowed for Lee.

Lee's final opportunity to intercept the Union Army was at the Battle of Glendale on June 30, but poorly executed orders allowed his enemy to escape to a strong defensive position on Malvern Hill.

In this alternate timeline, Lee's orders are recovered by trailing Confederate troops before they were allowed to fall into Union hands.

In the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863, Lee's reconnaissance found that the Union Army's right flank was " in the air ", which allowed the successful flanking attack by Maj. Gen. Thomas J.

This tactical error on Lee's part allowed Union cavalry time to erase Lee's head start in his retreat.