Robert E. Lee

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Robert E. Lee's first movie, The Road, opened Sunday night with a special trailer. The film depicts Robert E. Lee, the father of the nation's oldest man-child, fighting American imperialism with Confederate and Spanish-American troops in Mexico City....

• Birth name: Robert Edward Lee
• Nickname(s): Uncle Robert, Marse Robert, King of Spades, Marble Man
• Born: ( 1807-01-19) January 19, 1807 Stratford Hall, Virginia, U.S.
• Died: October 12, 1870 (1870-10-12) (aged 63) Lexington, Virginia, U.S.
• Allegiance: United States of America Confederate States of America Commonwealth of Virginia
• Rank: Colonel (U.S.), General (C.S.)
• Commands held: General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States U.S. Military Academy Army of Northern Virginia
• Spouse(s): Mary Anna Randolph Custis ​ ​ (m. 1831) ​
• Children: 7, including:, Custis Lee, Rooney Lee, Robert E. Lee Jr.
• Relations: Henry Lee III (father), Anne Hill Carter Lee (mother)