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	The General Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The General Lee is the car driven by the Duke cousins Bo and Luke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard.
		Though The General Lee is often used as a daily driver by Bo and Luke, the implied primary purpose of the car is dirt-track racing.
		Because the General Lee was now so famous, WB had their staff mechanics build the cars to a strict appearance, even on the underside.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Lee_(car) (1805 words)

	Robert E. Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lee's sentiments were against secession, which he denounced in an 1861 letter as "nothing but revolution" and a betrayal of the efforts of the Founders.
		Lee's attacks resulted in heavy Confederate casualties and they were marred by clumsy tactical performances by his subordinates, but his aggressive actions unnerved McClellan, who retreated to a point on the James River where Union naval forces were in control.
		Lee died from the effects of pneumonia, on the morning of October 12, 1870, two weeks after the stroke, in Lexington, Virginia, and was buried underneath Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University, where his body remains today.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_E._Lee (4485 words)

	Biography of General Robert E. Lee
		Robert Edward Lee was born on January 19, 1807 at "Stratford" in Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Henry and Anne Hill Lee.
		Lee was offered a command in the Union Army but declined to accept the assignment because of his ancestry and loyalty to Virginia.
		Lee was sincere in his feelings in not discussing the war or the results of it, letting the record of his army speak for itself.
	www.nps.gov /gett/getttour/sidebar/leebio.htm (1730 words)

	General Robert E. Lee - Hero of the Southern Confederacy
		Lee was serving with General Wool at the beginning of the Mexican War, but was reassigned to General Winfield Scott’s staff at his special request.
		Lee was in Washington in October of 1859 when John Brown seized the engine house at the Federal Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.
		Lee became an instant hero to the people of the South as a result and his soldiers began to develop an almost mystical belief in him as their leader.
	www.swcivilwar.com /lee.html (1235 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Robert E. Lee
		Lee was intrusted with the vital duties of mapping out the terrain ahead, dividing the line of advance for the U.S. troops, and in one case leading troops into battle.
		Colonel Lee, and a young aide Lt. JEB Stuart, and a detachment of U.S. marines, were rushed by train to Harper's Ferry where they were able to capture radical abolitionist John Brown and his followers.
		Lee and his most trusted lieutenant, Gen. Stonewall Jackson, divided their forces and through a forced march around General Hooker fell on his exposed flank, rolling it up, and defeating the union forces yet again.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/B/relee/relee.htm (969 words)

	Robert Edward Lee Biography
		As a Confederate brigadier general, and later full general, he was in charge of supervising all Southern forces in Virginia.
		Lee returned to Richmond as a paroled prisoner of war, and submitted with the utmost composure to an altered destiny.
		Lee's enormous wartime prestige, both in the North and South, and the devotion inspired by his unconscious symbolism of the "Lost Cause" made his a legendary figure even before his death.
	www.civilwarhome.com /leebio.htm (1218 words)

	General Robert E. Lee's War-Horses, Traveller And Lucy Long
		General Lee rode Lucy Long for two years until, when in the lines around Petersburg, she got with foal, and he sent her to the rear, and once more mounted Traveller.
		At the second battle of Manassas, while General Lee was at the front reconnoitering; dismounted and holding 'Traveller' by the bridle, the horse became frightened at some movement of the enemy and plunging pulled General Lee down on a stump, breaking both of his hands.
		General Lee rode her quite constantly until toward the close of the war, when she was found to be in foal and was sent to the rear.
	www.civilwarhome.com /leeshorses.htm (1848 words)

	Robert E. Lee Biography
		Lee was strongly averse to secession, but felt obliged to conform to the action of his own state.
		Lee was personally in charge of the unsuccessful West Virginian operations in the autumn, and, having been made a full general on the 31st of August, during the winter he devoted his experience as an engineer to the fortification and general defense of the Atlantic coast.
		The personal history of Lee is lost in the history of the great crisis of America's national life; friends and foes alike acknowledged the purity of his motives, the virtues of his private life, his earnest Christianity and the unrepining loyalty with which he accepted the ruin of his party.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/About%20the%20General.htm (1073 words)

	Untitled Document
		General Lee was starting into the Maryland Campaign, he had sustained a painful hurt when standing by his horse which gave a sudden start.
		General Lee's son, Bob, came in to see his Father, one of the very few times he saw his Father during the War.
		General Lee with his hand on his son's knee and Bob with his arm at the back of his Father's chair.
	www.mileslehane.com /general.html (569 words)

	Surrender at Appomattox, 1865
		General: I received your note of this morning on the picket-line, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposal of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army.
		General Grant began the conversation by saying 'I met you once before, General Lee, while we were serving in Mexico, when you came over from General Scott's headquarters to visit Garland's brigade, to which I then belonged.
		Lee signaled to his orderly to bring up his horse, and while the animal was being bridled the general stood on the lowest step and gazed sadly in the direction of the valley beyond where his army lay - now an army of prisoners.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /appomatx.htm (1890 words)

	TV ACRES: Automobiles - Dodge- The General Lee (The Dukes of Hazzard)
		General Lee was a 1969 Dodge Charger (some 1970s used) with a 440 cubic inch Magnum V8 engine.
		General Lee were sent eight-by-ten glossies of the General autographed with tire-treads.
		The four-inch high lettering "General Lee" that ran along the flat upper-part of the diprail was made of vinyl.
	www.tvacres.com /autos_dodge_general.htm (828 words)

	General William C. Lee House-- Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic Places Travel ...
		William C. Lee (1895-1948) was born in Dunn and was the fifth of Eldridge and Emma Jane Lee's seven children.
		As a military strategist and advisor to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lee wrote the airborne doctrine and devised the tactical plans employed in the D-Day invasion of the European Continent.
		General Lee was in active military service when his wife, Dava Johnson Lee, whom he married in 1918, bought this house on West Divine Street in 1935.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/lee.htm (649 words)

	Lee, Virginia's General
		After Lee's death, organizations such as the lee memorial Association, the Ladies' Lee Monument Association, and the Southern Historical Society began to formalize Lee's iconization by being public, by being organized, and by being in print.
		In Robert E. Lee, Howe gives reasons why Lee is an admirable man ("gallant foeman," "brother," "learning"), but ends by solving a dichotomy: "Thought may the minds of men divide, / Love makes the heart of nations one." She says Lee possesses both thought and love.
		Lee's sword stands for his role in battle, in particular, and his role in American consciousness, in general, in The Sword of Robert E. Lee, but Abram Joseph Ryan.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/LEE/lee1.html (734 words)

	Traveller and Robert E. Lee's horses
		Lee bought the horse from Capt. Broun for $200 during his late 1861 stay in South Carolina.
		He outlived General Lee, and upon his death he was buried next to the Lee Chapel.
		Although Traveller was General Lee's favorite horse, Lee did use other horses during the course of the Civil War.
	www.stratfordhall.org /leehorses.html (489 words)

	Appomattox Courthouse Robert E Lee Surrenders to Ulysses S Grant
		Lee had met with Generals Gordon, Longstreet, and his nephew, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee earlier that evening and decided to throw a portion of his infantry against Sheridan's men.
		Lee knew that there was no hope of supplying his army by retreating in that direction.
		Negotiations began between General Robert E Lee and General Ulysses S Grant in the McLean House near Appomattox Court House, and the terms of surrender were agreed upon.
	americancivilwar.com /appo.html (1586 words)

	Leaders of the Civil War
		General Robert E. Lee, The leader of the Confederate Army had to surrender to General Grant in 1865.
		General Lee was a fierce fighter and helped his soldiers win many battles at the beginning of the Civil War.
		Lee felt he had to surrender to the North to stop so many of his soldiers from being killed.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/civilwar/leaders.htm (541 words)

	General Lee
		The first few Chargers to become General Lees were purchased straight off used-car lots for the filming in Georgia of the five pilot episodes.In case you may not be sure, there's no Hazzard County in Georgia.
		As for the General Lee's horn, it was discovered when some off the production crew, on their way to start shooting, passed a car with a horn that tooted the first 12 notes of Dixie.
		The General Lee enjoys a tremendous popularity among the younger viewers of the show, a fact which could very well be due to the almost total lack of gutsy performance cars available today, when even the ones you can buy are only sheep in wolf's clothing.
	www.thedukesofhazzard.nl /generallee.htm (929 words)

	Robert E. Lee American Civil War Confederate General
		Lee returned to Richmond in March of 1862 to become military advisor to President Davis.
		His strategy in opposing General Pope, his invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and other achievements are central to the history of the war.
		Lee's surrender to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox Court House ended the Civil War and he was finally pardoned of all wrong doing by President Jimmy Carter.
	americancivilwar.com /south/lee.html (1530 words)

	General Lee
		The General Lee was painted bright orange and had a confederate flag on the roof and the number '01' on the door.
		On all the General Lees used for the show, the locking mechanism was disconnected from the foot-operated parking brake for the "Bootleggers' Turn", the 180-degree turns the Dukes made in practically every show to lose sheriff Rosco, and/or deputies Enos and Cletus.
		The Duke boys got the General Lee after it was seized from a couple of guys who used it as their getaway car in a bank robbery.
	local.aaca.org /junior/starcars/duke.htm (935 words)

	WHO \| Director-General: LEE Jong-wook
		LEE Jong-wook was nominated on 28 January 2003 by the World Health Organization's Executive Board for the post of Director-General of the agency and elected to the post on 21 May by the Member States of WHO.
		LEE Jong-wook took office and started his five-year term as Director-General of WHO on 21 July 2003.
		Born on 12 April 1945, in Seoul, Republic of Korea, LEE Jong-wook received a Medical Doctor degree (M.D.) from Seoul National University and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Hawaii.
	www.who.int /dg/lee/en (260 words)

	The Patriot Resource: Charles Lee
		Charles Lee was an Irishman born in February 1732 in England.
		Lee served under Maj. General Edward Braddock along with fellow officers George Washington, Horatio Gates and Thomas Gage during the French and Indian War.
		Lee was recalled north to aid General Washington, but during manuevers in New Jersey in December 1776, he was captured by a British patrol.
	www.patriotresource.com /people/charleslee.html (214 words)

	Fitzhugh Lee
		The son of a U.S. (and later Confederate) naval officer, Lee was born in Virginia in 1835.
		Though Lee was unnerved by the MAINE's sudden arrival when he had specifically advised against it's visit at that time, months later he would recall the arrival as "a beautiful sight and one long to be remembered." Perhaps this underscored his ownuncertainty of the situation.
		Lee and Sigsbee were treated to a bullfight by hosting Spanish officers as part of the "good will" visit.
	www.spanamwar.com /Leebiop.htm (1382 words)

	TV Guide Article on The General
		We're talking, of course, about the famous "General Lee," the bright-orange, Southern dirt-road express with the Confederate flag on the roof and racing numbers on the doors.
		The studio press biography of the General Lee identifies it as a 1969 Dodge Charger with the 440-cubic-inch Magnum V8 engine, a big-block powerplant from the golden age of American muscle cars before emissions controls and fuel-economy concerns shrank horsepower from maxi to mini.
		Just as a bull is carefully groomed, watered and pampered before a bullfight, the General is kept clean after every run through dust, dirt or mud, shined and polished as if headed for a show instead of the stunt that may consign it to the scrap heap.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/LEE/hazard.html (1806 words)

	General Robert Edward Lee
		Robert Edward Lee was born on January 19, 1807, at "Stratford" in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
		Whenever he had a plan, General Lee took the initiative and acted at once.
		General Robert E. Lee is buried at Lexington, Virginia.
	www.nps.gov /anti/lee_bio.htm (480 words)

	Major General Fitzhugh Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Major-General Fitzhugh Lee was born at Clermont, Fairfax county, Va., November 19, 1835.
		He resigned his position as chief of the bureau of coast survey to join the Confederacy, and was on duty at Norfolk; in command of fortifications at Drewry's bluff; chief of the bureau of orders and detail, and in command of fortifications on the James during the siege of Richmond.
		Fitzhugh Lee was graduated at the United States military academy in 1856, and after serving until January 1, 1858, in the cavalry school at Carlisle, Pa., as an instructor, he was assigned to frontier duty in Texas with his regiment, the Second cavalry.
	members.aol.com /jweaver300/grayson/fitzlee.htm (869 words)

	General Lee 1969 Dodge Charger R/T - Classic TV Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The 1969 Dodge Charger R/T was named "General Lee" and owned in the show by cousins Bo and Luke Duke.
		The story of the General Lee began with the two cousins looking for a fixer-upper to enter a local race.
		The jumps were done in special cars that had extra weight added to the rear, had reinforced bodies and were equipped with NASCAR style fuel cells to prevent leaks and possible accidents.
	www.classictvcars.com /69-charger.php (416 words)

	The General Lee - Justin's Dukes of Hazzard site
		Some Generals had 440 Magnums, but the 426 Hemi was shown in many episodes.
		The roof of the General Lee was supported by three-point roll bars that helped retain the strength of the metal in the event the car was flipped over during a scene.
		Of course, some General Lees (there were over 300) had un-welded doors.
	www.thedukesofhazzard.net /general.html (736 words)

	All About General Beau Lee of the Yellow River Game Ranch
		The first General Lee, "in service" for ten years, is now retired and lives in seclusion at The Game Ranch.
		General Lee retains his own Public Relations Counsel.
		General Lee resides at The Yellow River Game Ranch along with six hundred other animals and birds indigenous to Georgia.
	www.yellowrivergameranch.com /bio.htm (721 words)

	Howstuffworks "How the General Lee Works"
		The General Lee, the Dodge Charger driven by the Dukes, still has a loyal fan following.
		In this article, we'll find out what was under the General Lee's hood, how they found the car to use in the series, and how they kept it running after jumping it over a moving train.
		You can put the General Lee through its paces on "The Dukes of Hazzard" video game, available for Xbox.
	auto.howstuffworks.com /general-lee.htm (181 words)

	Amazon.com: General Lee: A Biography of Robert E. Lee: Books: Fitzhugh Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		WESTMORELAND is one of a group of counties in Virginia lying between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers.
		The only difference between this book and the memoirs of certain other officers engaged in the same battles is the Fitzhugh Starts his recitations with, "General Lee's Order were that...", and has less maps, that usually ease the strain of describing obscure movements.
		BTW, At a recent channeling, I was recognized as the 12th incarnation of R.E. Lee.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306805898?v=glance (1026 words)

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