ABSTRACT
McClellan was politically compromised as well, even if this may not have directly affected his leadership of the army. When Sherman's plan was finally agreed, due to Grant's support of it, the result showed the South to be a hollow shell. Convinced that the liberal stress of individual freedom promoted national divisiveness, Fascists pressed for monolithic unity: one leader one party, one ideology, and one national will. There is no doubt that Cortes used the destruction of the ships by either scuttling or running aground or both as a motivation for his soldiers, but it seems unlikely that was the main motivation. The case studies show that will is a consideration in many instances, but also that there are instances where over-reliance on will or over-reliance on leadership leads to disaster. Despite the attention paid to individual leaders of wars, charismatic leadership generally fails.
