Talk:Decisive victory

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just battles but not wars? Could this be generalized from battles to armed conflict in general?Zebulin 22:13, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] point of this article

I have been working on improving an article called Turning point of the American Civil War (not a very good article by Wikipedia standards, which I can admit because I was the original author in 2004 or so) and I came across this article because sometimes the term turning point is used as a synonym for decisive victory. But I have to ask: what is the point of this article? It gives three different definitions of the same term and then provides a brief list of battles that meet one or more of those definitions, without identifying which ones are which. For example, the Battle of Gettysburg is not considered decisive in terms of the entire war, but it was decisive in terms of the Gettysburg Campaign and was indisputably a victory for the Union Army. So it meets the second two definitions, but not the first. Given the breadth of the three definitions, in the American Civil War alone, there were at least a dozen decisive victories, so I wonder whether this list actually adds any value. In any event, citations would be needed to justify these subjective judgments. Hal Jespersen (talk) 00:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC)