General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia entered the final ... Lee's bold maneuvering ended when he retreated from Maryland following the ... He believed that the soldiers of McClellan and Pope “lay weakened and ... that Northern troops were concentrating in the fortifications outside Washington
It was the "Meiji Restoration" that launched a period of rapid industrialization and Westernization in Japan during the 19th century, since this brought back traditional Japanese rule and led to modernization.
