> Trench warfare in the US Civil War didn't end in such a stalemate so there wasn't much precedence
I suppose this hangs on one's definition of stalemate, but I'd consider the nine months of the siege of Petersburg to qualify.
I suppose this hangs on one's definition of stalemate, but I'd consider the nine months of the siege of Petersburg to qualify.
I was thinking of the famous battles chasing each other around the map that included entrenchment but didn't stall as significantly. I can see an argument that Petersburg is the last stand of an exhausted defeated army digging in at their capital with the attackers choosing to siege rather than purely an unsolvable tactical impasse created by entrenchment technology... but it's probably that too.