When a lesser number of costs and risks are desirable, or when it is not possible to obtain complete or majority control, the parent company might introduce an affiliate, associate or associate company in which it would own a minority stake.
Shermanâs March to the Sea was a campaign during the American Civil War. It was a march from Atlanta, GA to Savannah, GA. The campaign was a month long that took place from November 1864 to December 1864. It is called Shermanâs March to the Sea because the officer in command was Major General William Tecumseh Sherman. The campaign is most famous for the destruction that was left in the wake of Shermanâs army.
George McClellan: Peninsula Campaign and Antietam. Lincoln preferred an overland campaign toward Richmond, but McClellan proposed an amphibious maneuver in which the Union Army would land on the Virginia Peninsula, effectively circumventing General Joseph E. Johnstonâs Confederate army.