Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Malvern Hill

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The result was: promoted by Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 14:41, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Battle of Malvern Hill

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... that when Confederate officer D.H. Hill described the Battle of Malvern Hill in a post-war publication, he said, "It wasn't war; it was murder"?

ALT1: ... that "It wasn't war; it was murder," were the words of Confederate officer D.H. Hill when describing the Battle of Malvern Hill?
Reviewed: Irwin Sherman

5x expanded by Ceradon (talk). Self nominated at 23:20, 3 January 2015 (UTC).

Expanded 5x, easily long enough. Article is well-written, and I have no reason to doubt the veracity of the numerous sources employed. Hook's fine length-wise (I'd go with the first one), and cited (see §5.4). QPQ all sorted, all images are public domain, as you'd expect on a 19th-century topic. Brilliant work, @Ceradon:, it's certainly no mean feat to expand a ten-year-old article fivefold, let alone to this sort of standard, and you should definitely considering taking it to GAN, at a minimum. (For what it's worth, I discovered quite recently that Thomas Cocke, who built the original Malvern Hill, is a very, very distant ancestor of mine, which is why this article leapt out at me.) IgnorantArmies 16:10, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

@IgnorantArmies:, thank you for your kind works . Ancestor built the Malvern house? Wow! I want to visit the battlefield someday. Though I think the Malvern house has been destroyed or something like that, no? In regards to the GA, well, yeah: I have nominated it for GA already. You're free to check that out (review it even ) but I'm trying to get it to FA before July 1. At that point, I'll be able to nominate it for TFA. I'm gonna take this one far. Thanks, --ceradon (talk • contribs) 23:23, 4 January 2015 (UTC)