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Book Synopsis Californio Lancers by : Tom Prezelski
Download or read book Californio Lancers written by Tom Prezelski and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 16,000 Californians served as soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War. One California unit, the 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry, consisted largely of Californio Hispanic volunteers from the “Cow Counties” of Southern California and the Central Coast. Out-of-work vaqueros who enlisted after drought decimated the herds they worked, the Native Cavalrymen lent the army their legendary horsemanship and carried lances that evoked both the romance of the Californios and the Spanish military tradition. Californio Lancers, the first detailed history of the 1st Battalion, illuminates their role in the conflict and brings new diversity to Civil War history. Author Tom Prezelski notes that the Californios, less than a generation removed from the U.S.-Mexican War, were ambivalent about serving in the Union Army, but poverty trumped their misgivings. Based on his extensive research in the service records of individual officers and enlisted men, Prezelski describes both the problems and the accomplishments of the 1st Battalion. Despite a desertion rate among enlisted men that exceeded 50 percent for some companies, and despite the feuds among its officers, the Native Cavalry was the face of federal authority in the region, and their presence helped retain the West for the Union during the rebellion. The battalion pursued bandits, fought an Indian insurrection in northern California, garrisoned Confederate-leaning southern California, patrolled desert trails, guarded the border, and attempted to control the Chiricahua Apaches in southern Arizona. Although some ten thousand Spanish-surnamed Americans served during the Civil War, their support of the Union is almost unknown in the popular imagination. Californio Lancers contributes to our understanding of the Civil War in the Far West and how it transformed the Mexican-American community.
Book Synopsis California and the Civil War by : Richard Hurley
Download or read book California and the Civil War written by Richard Hurley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remotest place on Earth -- American California -- In the southern orbit -- the national crisis -- Which way California? -- Speaking for the union -- Securing the golden state -- Turmoil in the southwest -- The California column -- The department of New Mexico -- Life in wartime California -- Confederate partisans -- With Connor in Utah -- Californians fight back east -- The sanitary commission -- Aftermath.
Book Synopsis The Value of History by : Paul F Frank Beisbier
Download or read book The Value of History written by Paul F Frank Beisbier and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work that is about to be surveyed by the reader represents decades of painstaking work to provide him or her with the most positive and freshest perspective with respect to what the discipline of history teaches him or her to improve the quality of not only his or her daily life but also those of all other whom he or she comes into contact with. This task is accomplished when he or she becomes aware of the fact that the greatest possible good can only be achieved through the promotion of the adequate satisfaction of the greatest number of needs of the maximum number of people within the context of its being mutually beneficial to all parties involved. Furthermore, the reader of this volume gains the widest perspective on how the above assertion is valid for and has a positive impact on all fields of human endeavor, individual human lives, and human institutions, since the content of historical subject matter consists of nothing less than the past and present record of all the events and developments of the above entities. Thus, since everything that people learn is through past and present experiences, history teaches them everything and nothing can be perceived outside the framework of its subject matter. To present a graphic example to the reader of this volume to clearly illustrate the truth and validity of the above points, the author has used the comparison and contrast of the values, beliefs, and cultures of two very different societies in variant times and places to do so. The retrograde valuing of power and wealth placed on them by a small elite in European medieval society, resulting in limited social mobility in a primarily agrarian society, is in marked contrast to the emphasis on limited individual freedom within the framework of the rule of law as espoused by modern America. Within the latter framework, it was possible to develop a modern industrial and postindustrial community to provide individual social advancement through educational and employment opportunities as well as through the availability of quality health care. Finally, through all that has been stated above, it is worthwhile for society at large as well as the academic community to peruse through the contents of this volume in order to accomplish the above objectives.
Download or read book Kearny's March written by Winston Groom and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling re-creation of a crucial campaign in the Mexican-American War and a pivotal moment in America's history. In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with a thousand cavalrymen of the First United States Dragoons. When his fantastic expedition ended a year and two-thousand miles later, the nation had doubled in size and now stretched from Atlantic to Pacific, fulfilling what many saw as its unique destiny. Kearny's March has all the stuff of great narrative history: hardships on the trail, wild Indians, famous mountain men, international conflict and political intrigue, personal dramas, gold rushes and land-grabs. Winston Groom plumbs the wealth of primary documentation--journals and letters, as well as military records--and gives us a sleek, exciting account that captures our imaginations and enlivens our understanding of the sometimes dirty business of country-making.
Download or read book Southern California Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California written by Historical Society of Southern California and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer Register, Los Angeles written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cavalry Lance written by Alan Larsen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of cavalry firearms and the widespread disappearance of armour from the European battlefield saw a decline in the use of the cavalry lance in early modern warfare. However, by 1800 the lance, much changed from its medieval predecessors in both form and function, was back. During the next century the use of the lance spread to the armed forces of almost every Western country, seeing action in every major conflict from the Napoleonic Wars to World War I including the Crimean and Franco-Prussian wars and across the Atlantic in the American Civil War. The lance even reached the colonial conflicts of the Anglo-Sikh and Boer wars. It was not until the disappearance of the mounted warrior from the battlefield that the lance was consigned to history. Featuring specially commissioned artwork and drawing upon a variety of sources, this is the engaging story of the cavalry lance at war during the 19th and 20th centuries, from Waterloo to the Somme.
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Book Synopsis Matters Relating to T. Bertram Lance by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Download or read book Matters Relating to T. Bertram Lance written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Ocean Free-lance by : William Clark Russell
Download or read book An Ocean Free-lance written by William Clark Russell and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California written by and published by Michelin Italiana. This book was released on 2003 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular title in Michelin's acclaimed collection of travel publications is an indispensable guide to all that is uniquely and indisputably California. Richly illustrated with more than 50 full-color photos and line drawings, this handy guide directs readers to over 1,100 of the Golden State's cultural, natural and historical sights. Includes planning tips, useful addresses, safety hints and lists of parks and beaches.
Book Synopsis Dances of Early California Days by : Lucile Katheryn Czarnowski
Download or read book Dances of Early California Days written by Lucile Katheryn Czarnowski and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Quarterly by : Historical Society of Southern California
Download or read book The Quarterly written by Historical Society of Southern California and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Noticias de Anza written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
