The Army And Navy Of America Containing A View Of The Heroic Adventures Battles And Glorious Achievements In The Cause Of Freedom From The Period Of The French And Indian Wars To The Close Of The Florida War Enlivened By A Variety Of The Most Interesting Anecdotes Etc

Author : Jacob K. Neff
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330044186
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book The Army and Navy of America written by Jacob K. Neff and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Army and Navy of America: Containing a View of the Heroic Adventures The work now presented to the public is one of a peculiar character, and the only one that gives the reader a good idea of the battles fought in our country, unless he searches for a description of them through prosy and ponderous volumes. Too much space has hitherto been devoted to legislative proceedings, and too little to the battles. Nor is this all. The various military operations are mixed together in inextricable confusion in our ordinary histories, the same chapter often containing a number of battles. We have corrected this, and made a chapter of every battle, to set it forth clearly and distinctly, connecting only those extended operations, that were intended to aid each other. Part I. - Contains the nature of campaigns - the advance - the retreat - the encampment of armies - together with the plans of battles; military maxims, from the great generals of every age and country, illustrated by their own battles; with all the manœuvres of fleets, and war at sea. This part prepares the reader to understand warlike operations on land and sea; a kind of information, the want of which every reader of ordinary history must have felt. Such an arrangement has never been attempted before, and in this, especially, our work differs from all others; we hope to the advantage of the reader. Part II. - Gives an account of the battles of the French and Indian wars, which were of the greatest importance to our fathers. It was a struggle between France and England as to which government should rule the American continent. To our fathers it was important, not only because it would decide whether they should be ruled by the French or English, Catholics or Protestants, but it even decided whether they should at all exist as a nation. This, independent of the interesting nature of many of these forest battles, will make this part of the work of infinitely greater importance than is generally imagined. Independent of all this, the heroes of our revolution were nearly all schooled in this war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.