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Author : Jane Brewer Besant
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Standing Army Vs. Militia, 1660-1700 written by Jane Brewer Besant and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clifford Walton
Publisher : London, Harrison & sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the British Standing Army. A.D. 1660 to 1700 written by Clifford Walton and published by London, Harrison & sons. This book was released on 1894 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Army Center of Military History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944961404
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (614 download)
Download or read book American Military History Volume 1 written by Army Center of Military History and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
Author : Hannah Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198851995
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660-1750 written by Hannah Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660 -1750 argues that armies had a profound impact on the major political events of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain. Beginning with the controversial creation of a permanent army to protect the restored Stuart monarchy, this original and important study examines how armies defended or destroyed regimes during the Exclusion Crisis, Monmouth's Rebellion, the Revolution of 1688-1689, and the Jacobite rebellions and plots of the post-1714 period, including the '15 and '45. Hannah Smith explores the political ideas of 'common soldiers' and army officers and analyses their political engagements in a divisive, partisan world. The threat or hope of military intervention into politics preoccupied the era. Would a monarch employ the army to circumvent parliament and annihilate Protestantism? Might the army determine the succession to the throne? Could an ambitious general use armed force to achieve supreme political power? These questions troubled successive generations of men and women as the British army developed into a lasting and costly component of the state, and emerged as a highly successful fighting force during the War of the Spanish Succession. Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660 - 1750 deploys an innovative periodization to explore significant continuities and developments across the reigns of seven monarchs spanning almost a century. Using a vivid and extensive array of archival, literary, and artistic material, the volume presents a striking new perspective on the political and military history of Britain.
Author : Christopher L. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317024605
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Maligned Militia written by Christopher L. Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its failure to unseat King James II, the Monmouth Rebellion had a profound influence upon English politics. In particular, it reignited the debate about whether the country should rely on a professional army under direct royal control or local country militias made up of part-time soldiers. King James favoured the former, and used criticism of the militia’s performance during the rebellion to support his argument. Contemporary commentators and historians alike all certainly seemed to agree that the king’s victory was won in spite of - not because of - the militia. But is this a fair judgement? Drawing upon a wealth of information gathered from personal accounts, private papers, letters, financial records, diaries and memoirs, this book revisits the events of 1685 to assess the militia’s performance in helping to defeat the so-called ’pitchfork rebellion’. Through an extensive investigation into the militia itself, its social composition, role, training, armament and leadership the study sets a benchmark for what could have been realistically expected of these part-time soldiers, and then sets this against the actual tasks that were asked of it in 1685. The results that emerge from this exercise paint a very different picture of the militia’s role in the rebellion than has hitherto been accepted by historians. Judged by these criteria, a convincing case is made that the militia was in fact an efficient military organisation according to contemporary expectations and demands made of it. Criticisms of it, it is argued, stem more from political expediency than impartial judgment. As well as being of interest to military and social historians, this book demonstrates the dangers to all historians of taking at face value contemporary comments. It shows how subtle and interlocking forces, that may at first glance appear unrelated, can work together to colour opinions of events and organisations.
Author : J. R. Western
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003816169
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century written by J. R. Western and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1965, The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century directs light on English politics and government, through studying the militia, from the Restoration to the days of the younger Pritt. The militia occupied a significant place both in the quarrels between king and parliament in the later seventeenth century and in the struggle for power between the elder Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle. Raised and officered by the county and parish authorities, its maintenance constantly posed the problem of how to harness the machinery of local government to national purposes. The gentry had to be induced to help and the militia, like other institutions national and local, was shaped by the fashion and extent to which they responded. The book will be of interest to students of history, political science, and literature.
Author : John Childs
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441118039
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book General Percy Kirke and the Later Stuart Army written by John Childs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Percy Kirke (c. 1647-91) is remembered in Somerset as a cruel, vicious thug who deluged the region in blood after the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. He is equally notorious in Northern Ireland. Appointed to command the expedition to raise the Siege of Londonderry in 1689, his assumed treachery nearly resulted in the city's fall and he was made to look ridiculous when the blockade was eventually lifted by a few sailors in a rowing boat. Yet Kirke was closely involved in some of the most important events in British and Irish history. He served as the last governor of the colony of Tangier; played a central role in facilitating the Glorious Revolution of 1688; and fought in the majority of the principal actions and campaigns undertaken by the newly-formed standing armies in England, Ireland and Scotland, especially the Battle of the Boyne and the first Siege of Limerick in 1689. With the aid of his own earlier work in the field, additional primary sources and a recently-rediscovered letter book, John Childs looks beyond the fictionalisation of Kirke, most notably by R. D. Blackmore in Lorna Doone, to investigate the historical reality of his career, character, professional competence, politics and religion. As well as offering fresh, detailed narratives of such episodes as Monmouth's Rebellion, the conspiracies in 1688 and the Siege of Londonderry, this pioneering biography also presents insights into contemporary military personnel, patronage, cliques and procedures.
Author : Jennine Hurl-Eamon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199681007
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Marriage and the British Army in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Jennine Hurl-Eamon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationships between soldiers and their wives during the long eighteenth century in Britain, particularly focusing on the wives who stayed at home while their husbands went to war.
Author : Sylvia R. Frey
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292749279
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The British Soldier in America written by Sylvia R. Frey and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social history of the common British soldier in the American Revolution dispels myths and sheds new light on who fought for the Crown—and why. In this extensive study, Sylvia Frey surveys recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs to provide insight into the soldier’s “life and mind.” In the process she reveals a great deal about the common soldier: his social origins and occupational background, his size, age, and general physical condition, his personal economics and daily existence. Her findings dispel the traditional assumption that the army was made up largely of criminals and social misfits. Special attention is given to soldiering as an occupation, and the moral and material factors which induced men to accept the high risks. Focusing on two of the major campaigns of the war—the Northern Campaign which culminated at Saratoga and the Southern Campaign which ended at Yorktown—Frey describes the human face of war, with particular emphasis on the physical and psychic strains of campaigning in the eighteenth century. Frey rejects the traditional assumption that soldiers were motivated to fight exclusively by fear and force and argues instead that the primary motivation to battle was generated by regimental esprit, which in the eighteenth century substituted for patriotism. After analyzing the sources of esprit, she concludes that it was the sustaining force for morale in a long and discouraging war.
Author : Gordon Bannerman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317314565
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Merchants and the Military in Eighteenth-Century Britain written by Gordon Bannerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the contract sector of the British Army during the long eighteenth century. This book argues that this group of financiers, private merchants, businessmen and farmers represented a vital interest group which was at the nexus of the fiscal-military structure. It draws on papers from the War Office, the Treasury and the Audit Office.
Author : William Gifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Quarterly Review written by William Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Author, Playwright and Composer written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Army. Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rifle Brigade Chronicle written by Great Britain. Army. Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Gordon Cavenagh-Mainwaring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book "The Royal Miners" written by James Gordon Cavenagh-Mainwaring and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert K. Wright
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Continental Army written by Robert K. Wright and published by Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army. This book was released on 1983 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative analysis of the complex evolution of the Continental Army, with the lineages of the 177 individual units that comprised the Army, and fourteen charts depicting regimental organization.
