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Soldiers of Conquest

Author : F.M. Parker
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers of Conquest written by F.M. Parker and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, comrades in arms in the Mexican-American War 1846–1848. President Polk, desiring to expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean, orders General Winfield Scott to invade Mexico at Veracruz and march inland and capture Mexico City. Mexico controlled much of what is now the southwestern part of the United States and California. Scott arrives at Veracruz with 100 ships crowded with 9,000 soldiers and the tools of war, cannon, muskets and cavalry mounts. Among the soldiers are Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant and Captain Robert E. Lee. Grant, 24 years old, is a hardened combat veteran from fighting with General Taylor in northern Mexico. Lee, 40 years old, is untested in battle. Both men desire grade and glory and it is during war that these can be won if a man acted bravely. General Scott lands his army upon the hostile Mexican shore. After a heavy bombardment of Veracruz, the Americans capture the city. Scott waits for the reinforcements that President Polk had promised. When they do not arrive and his men begin to die from yellow fever, Scott severs his link with the States and his supply base at Veracruz and marches his small army into the mountains. He must capture Mexico City lying in the center of the nation of seven million inhabitants. He will lead his men to victory or death. General Santa Anna is waiting with an army of 30,000 soldiers to annihilate the small force of invading Americans.

Violent Intermediaries

Author : Michelle R. Moyd
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821444875
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Violent Intermediaries written by Michelle R. Moyd and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history, German colonial history, and military history. Lauded by Germans for their loyalty during the East Africa campaign of World War I, but reviled by Tanzanians for the violence they committed during the making of the colonial state between 1890 and 1918, the askari have been poorly understood as historical agents. Violent Intermediaries situates them in their everyday household, community, military, and constabulary roles, as men who helped make colonialism in German East Africa. By linking microhistories with wider nineteenth-century African historical processes, Michelle Moyd shows how as soldiers and colonial intermediaries, the askari built the colonial state while simultaneously carving out paths to respectability, becoming men of influence within their local contexts. Through its focus on the making of empire from the ground up, Violent Intermediaries offers a fresh perspective on African colonial troops as state-making agents and critiques the mythologies surrounding the askari by focusing on the nature of colonial violence.

Climate of Conquest

Author : Pratyay Nath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199098239
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Climate of Conquest written by Pratyay Nath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can war tell us about empire? In Climate of Conquest, Pratyay Nath seeks to answer this question by focusing on the Mughals. He goes beyond the traditional way of studying war in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that the processes of war-making shared with the society, culture, environment, and politics of early modern South Asia. Climate of Conquest closely studies the dynamics of the military campaigns that helped the Mughals conquer North India and project their power beyond it. The author argues that the diverse natural environment of South Asia deeply shaped Mughal military techniques and the course of imperial expansion. He also sheds light on the world of military logistics, labour, animals, and the organization of war; the process of the formation of imperial frontiers; and the empire’s legitimization of war and conquest. What emerges is a fresh interpretation of Mughal empire-building as a highly adaptive, flexible, and accommodative process.

Military Conquest of the Prairie

Author : Tore T. Petersen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782843191
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Military Conquest of the Prairie written by Tore T. Petersen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Military Conquest of the Prairie is a study on the final wars on the prairie from the Native American perspective. When the reservation system took hold about one-third of tribes stayed permanently there, one-third during the harsh winter months, and the last third remained on what the government termed unceded territory, which Native Americans had the right to occupy by treaty. For the Federal government it was completely unacceptable that some Indians refused to submit to its authority. Both the Red River war (1874-75) in the south and the great Sioux war (1876-77) in the north were the direct result of Federal violation of treaties and agreements. At issue was the one-sided violence against free roaming tribes that were trying to maintain their old way of life, at the heart of which was avoidance on intermingling with white men. Contrary to the expectations of the government, and indeed to most historical accounts, the Native Americans were winning on the battlefields with clear conceptions of strategy and tactics. They only laid down their arms when their reservation was secured on their homeland, thus providing their preferred living space and enabling them to continue their way of life in security. But white man perfidy and governmental double-cross were the order of the day. The Federal government found it intolerable that what it termed savages' should be able to determine their own future. Vicious attacks were initiated in order to stamp out tribalism, resulting in driving the US aboriginal population almost to extinction. Analysis of these events is discussed in light of the passing of the Dawes Act in 1887 that provided for breaking up the reservations to the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 that gave a semblance of justice to Native Americans.

Soldiers and Silver

Author : Michael J. Taylor
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477321683
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers and Silver written by Michael J. Taylor and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the middle of the second century BCE, after nearly one hundred years of warfare, Rome had exerted its control over the entire Mediterranean world, forcing the other great powers of the region—Carthage, Macedonia, Egypt, and the Seleucid empire—to submit militarily and financially. But how, despite its relative poverty and its frequent numerical disadvantage in decisive battles, did Rome prevail? Michael J. Taylor explains this surprising outcome by examining the role that manpower and finances played, providing a comparative study that quantifies the military mobilizations and tax revenues for all five powers. Though Rome was the poorest state, it enjoyed the largest military mobilization, drawing from a pool of citizens, colonists, and allies, while its wealthiest adversaries failed to translate revenues into large or successful armies. Taylor concludes that state-level extraction strategies were decisive in the warfare of the period, as states with high conscription and low taxation raised larger, more successful armies than those that primarily sought to maximize taxation. Comprehensive and detailed, Soldiers and Silver offers a new and sophisticated perspective on the political dynamics and economies of these ancient Mediterranean empires.

Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army

Author : Francis Grose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army written by Francis Grose and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Military antiquities respecting a history of the English army, from the Conquest

Author : Francis Grose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Military antiquities respecting a history of the English army, from the Conquest written by Francis Grose and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

SOLDIERS AND SILVER

Author : MICHAEL J. TAYLOR
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781477330777
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book SOLDIERS AND SILVER written by MICHAEL J. TAYLOR and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Disease and Empire

Author : Philip D. Curtin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521598354
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book Disease and Empire written by Philip D. Curtin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1998, examines the practice of military medicine during the conquest of Africa.

The Conquest of the Reich

Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814757898
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The Conquest of the Reich written by Robin Neillands and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The defeat of Nazi Germany in the words of those who were there New Year's Day 1945 was not a day for rest or rejoicing on the embattled continent of Europe. Hard winter gripped the land, from the Channel coast to the distant Urals. Only the thought of victory warmed the frozen soldiers huddled in tanks and foxholes as the New Year dawned and they faced the prospect of battling onwards toward Berlin. This is the story of the last five months of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, from New Year's Day to VE Day, May 8, 1945. It is a story told not in the words of historians or scholars, but in the words of the people who lived through it, who fought and endured: soldier and civilian, American infantryman and British paratrooper, Canadian gunner and Australian pilot, New Zealand POW and German civilian. With his unrivaled gift for popular history, Robin Neillands, in his follow-up to the enormously successful D-Day 1944, recreates in engaging narrative fashion the most dramatic and bloody months of the war. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, letters, and inside eyewitness testimony from veterans about such subjects as the esprit de corps in the Allied and Axis armies, the discovery of the concentration camps, the dissension in the Allied command, and the meeting of Russians and Americans at the Elbe, the book recounts the effects of many of the most crucial events of the conflict on soldier and citizen alike. The Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Auschwitz, the Malmedy Massacres, the fall of Warsaw to the Red Army, the destruction of Dresden, the lynching of Allied aircrews, Yalta, Hitler's Scorched Earth directive, the massive parachutes drops by the Allied forces, the death of Roosevelt, the last days of Hitler, and, finally, the surrender of Germany—it's all here, rendered in engrossing and rich detail in this example of military history at its finest. For a comprehensive and thrilling account of the end of World War II, The Conquest of the Reich will stand as the definitive people's history for years to come.

On War

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On War written by Carl von Clausewitz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Japanese Army in World War II

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472804678
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Army in World War II written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese conquest of the Pacific comprised of a complex series of widely scattered operations; their intent was to neutralize American, Commonwealth, and Dutch forces, seize regions rich in economic resources, and secure an outer defense line for their empire. Although their conquest was successful, the forces deployed from Japan and China were not always ideally trained, equipped and armed. The South Seas and tropics proved challenging to these soldiers who were used to milder climates, and they were a less lethal enemy on the Chinese mainland. This book examines the overall structure of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), the forces in existence at the beginning of World War II and the organization of the forces committed to the conquest of the Pacific.

The Conquest of the Reich

Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780297815099
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Conquest of the Reich written by Robin Neillands and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776

Author : Charles Henry Jones
Publisher : Philadelphia, Pa. : Porter & Coates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776 written by Charles Henry Jones and published by Philadelphia, Pa. : Porter & Coates. This book was released on 1882 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776. From the Death of Montgomery to the Retreat of the British Army Under Sir Guy Carleton

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Author : Charles Henry Jones
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338540939X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776. From the Death of Montgomery to the Retreat of the British Army Under Sir Guy Carleton written by Charles Henry Jones and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army, from the Conquest to the Present Time;

Author : Francis Grose
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342538461
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army, from the Conquest to the Present Time; written by Francis Grose and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Mirrors of a Disaster

Author : Gérard Chaliand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351309226
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Mirrors of a Disaster written by Gérard Chaliand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mirrors of a Disaster, Gérard Chaliand narrates the major events that followed the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru with the scope and rhythm of an epic poem. He seeks to make meaningful the strict chronicle of a conquest through those who lived it. Human details and the broader political background bring to life one of history's great tragedies.A new introduction by the author is included in this paperback edition. The comprehensive work is organized into three parts: "The Conquest of Mexico," "The Conquest of Guatemala and Yucatan," and "The Conquest of Peru." In each section, the author provides a summary prior to, in many cases, a day-by-day account of the events as they unfolded. Enriched by significant contemporary documents Mirrors of a Disaster relates the many facets of the conquest, presenting the Indians' perception of their defeat by the Spaniards, the conquerors' narratives of the same events, and the author's own retelling of a tragedy in which, he says, "the vanquished could not, ultimately, but be vanquished."