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Author : Henry Putney Beers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (641 download)
Download or read book The Western Military Frontier 1815-1846 written by Henry Putney Beers and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Putney Beers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Western Military Frontier, 1815-1846 ... written by Henry Putney Beers and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Paul Prucha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780803236769
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (367 download)
Download or read book The Sword of the Republic written by Francis Paul Prucha and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Croghan
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806146400
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Army Life on the Western Frontier written by George Croghan and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Fort Snelling on the upper Mississippi and Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri to Fort St. Philip below New Orleans, the string of military bases along the western frontier of the United States played an essential part in the orderly advance of settlement following the War of 1812. Small, isolated , and insignificant in terms of fortification—after all, the authorized strength of the whole army was only 6,000 men—they were nevertheless the stabilizing and moderating force in the dramatic "rise of the new West." For twenty years prior to the Mexican War, Colonel George Croghan, as inspector general of the army, examined these frontier garrisons with a critical eye. His reports give an intimate, firsthand picture of what the western outposts were really like. Moreover, whether lashing out at the unreasonable discipline prescribed for privates or quietly commending an officer's good work, he wrote with a warmth and vitality seldom found in government documents. Arranged topically with brief introductions by the editor, the reports cover all phases of army life: quarters, clothing, the mess, hospitals and medical care, army chaplains, quartermaster supplies, the small arms of the troops, instruction, fatigue duties, military discipline, recruiting, and army sutlers. They also contain much additional information on roads, frontier conditions, Indian affairs, and related matters. George Croghan was a perceptive reporter, and his account of life and conditions at the western forts will prove valuable and interesting to the western Americana enthusiast as well as to the student of western history.
Author : George Raudzens
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889206384
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book The British Ordnance Department and Canada’s Canals 1815-1855 written by George Raudzens and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .
Author : Karl Jack Bauer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803261075
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Mexican War, 1846-1848 written by Karl Jack Bauer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this . . . is the best military history of that conflict. . . . Leading personalities, civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive and fair evaluations. The coming of war is seen as unavoidable, given American expansion and Mexican resistance to loss of territory, compounded by the fact that neither side understood the other. The events that led to war are described with reference to military strengths and weaknesses, and every military campaign and engagement is explained in clear detail and illustrated with good maps. . . . Problems of large numbers of untrained volunteers, discipline and desertion, logistics, diseases and sanitation, relations with Mexican civilians in occupied territory, and Mexican guerrilla operations are all explained, as are the negotiations which led to war's end and the Mexican cession. . . . This is an outstanding contribution to military history and a model of writing which will be admired and emulated."-Journal of American History. K. Jack Bauer was also the author of Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (1985) and Other Works. Robert W. Johannsen, who introduces this Bison Books edition of The Mexican War, is a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of To the Halls of Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985).
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826319661
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846 written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the cultural clashes between Indians and the British, Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans. A story of the contest for land and power across multiple and simultaneous frontiers.
Author : Roger L. Nichols
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806127248
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration written by Roger L. Nichols and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1995-04-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Stephen H. Long of the United States Army was the most important government-sponsored explorer in the decade after the War of 1812. He led three major and several minor expeditions up the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers and the Red River of the north, as well as exploring the central and southern Plains, the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, and the Great Lakes. His campanions included engineers, cartographers, Naturalists, ethnologists, and artists, and they gathered a wealth of scientific, military, and artistic data about the interior of North America. For years Long’s expeditions have been overlooked or misunderstood; here for the first time they are placed in the context of American scientific development.
Author : United States Air Force Academy. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The American Military on the Frontier written by United States Air Force Academy. Library and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Earl Arthur Shoemaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Permanent Indian Frontier written by Earl Arthur Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Wooster
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826338453
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The American Military Frontiers written by Robert Wooster and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the fledgling nation looked west to the land beyond the Appalachian Mountains, it turned to the army to advance and defend its national interests. Clashing with Spain, Britain, France, Mexico, the Confederacy, and Indians in this pursuit of expansion, the army's failures and successes alternately delayed and hastened western migration. Roads, river improvements, and railroads, often constructed or facilitated by the army, further solidified the nation's presence as it reached the Pacific Ocean and expanded north and south to the borders of Canada and Mexico. Western military experiences thus illustrate the dual role played by the United States Army in insuring national security and fostering national development. Robert Wooster's study examines the fundamental importance of military affairs to social, economic, and political life throughout the borderlands and western frontiers. Integrating the work of other military historians as well as tapping into a broad array of primary materials, Wooster offers a multifaceted narrative that will shape our understanding of the frontier military experience, its relationship with broader concerns of national politics, and its connection to major themes and events in American history.
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826213181
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Nathan Boone and the American Frontier written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2000-09-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated as one of America's frontier heroes, Daniel Boone left a legacy that made the Boone name almost synonymous with frontier settlement. Nathan Boone, the youngest of Daniel's sons, played a vital role in American pioneering, following in much the same steps as his famous father. In Nathan Boone and the American Frontier, R. Douglas Hurt presents for the first time the life of this important frontiersman. Based on primary collections, newspaper articles, government documents, and secondary sources, this well-crafted biography begins with Nathan's childhood in present-day Kentucky and Virginia and then follows his family's move to Missouri. Hurt traces Boone's early activities as a hunter, trapper, and surveyor, as well as his leadership of a company of rangers during the War of 1812. After the war, Boone returned to survey work. In 1831, he organized another company of rangers for the Black Hawk War and returned to military life, making it his career. The remainder of the book recounts Boone's activities with the army in Iowa and the Indian Territory, where he was the first Boone to gain notice outside Missouri or Kentucky. Even today his work is recognized in the form of state parks, buildings, and place-names. Although Nathan Boone was an important figure, he lived much of his life in the shadow of his father. R. Douglas Hurt, however, makes a strong case for Nathan's contribution to the larger context of life in the American backcountry, especially the execution of military and Indian policy and the settlement of the frontier. By recognizing the significant role that Nathan Boone played, Nathan Boone and the American Frontier also provides the recognition due the many unheralded frontiersmen who helped settle the West. Anyone with an interest in the history of Missouri, the frontier, or the Boone name will find this book informative and compelling.
Author : John E. Jessup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Study and Use of Military History written by John E. Jessup and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide to the Study and Use of Military History is designed to foster an appreciation of the value of military history and explain its uses and the resources available for its study. It is not a work to be read and lightly tossed aside, but one the career soldier should read again or use as a reference at those times during his career when necessity or leisure turns him to the contemplation of the military past.
Author : John E. Jessup
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160873263
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (732 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Study and Use of Military History written by John E. Jessup and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1979 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel J. Watson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700619151
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Peacekeepers and Conquerors written by Samuel J. Watson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jackson's Sword, Samuel Watson showed how the U.S. Army officer corps played a crucial role in stabilizing the frontiers of a rapidly expanding nation. In this sequel volume, he chronicles how the corps' responsibilities and leadership along the young nation's borders continued to grow. In the process, he shows, officers reflected an increasing commitment to professionalism, insulation from partisanship, and deference to civilian authority-all tempered in the forge of frustrating, politically complex operations and diplomacy along the nation's frontiers. Watson now focuses on the quarter-century between the Army's reduction in force in 1821 and the Mexican War. He examines a broad swath of military activity beginning with campaigns against southeastern Indians, notably the dispossession of the Creeks remaining in Georgia and Alabama from 1825 to 1834; the expropriation of the Cherokee between 1836 and 1838; and the Second Seminole War. He also explores peacekeeping on the Canadian border, which exploded in rebellion against British rule at the end of 1837, prompting British officials to applaud the U.S. Army for calming tensions and demonstrating its government's support for the international state system. He then follows the gradual extension of U.S. sovereignty in the Southwest through military operations west of the Missouri River and along the Louisiana-Texas border from 1821 to 1838 and through dragoon expeditions onto the central and southern Plains between 1834 and 1845. Throughout his account, Watson shows how military professionalism did not develop independent of civilian society, nor was it simply a matter of growing expertise in the art of conventional warfare. Indeed, the government trusted career army officers to serve as federal, international, and interethnic mediators, national law enforcers, and de facto intercultural and international peacekeepers. He also explores officers' attitudes toward Britain, Oregon, Texas, and Mexico to assess their values and priorities on the eve of the first conventional war the United States had fought in more than three decades. Watson's detailed study delves deeply into sources that reveal what officers actually thought, wrote, and did in the frontier and border regions. By examining the range of operations over the course of this quarter-century, he shows that the processes of peacekeeping, coercive diplomacy, and conquest were intricately and inextricably woven together.
Author : Samuel Watson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135112594X
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Warfare in the USA 1784861 written by Samuel Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented compilation provides the fullest examination anywhere available of the crucial social-political and strategic and policy-level issues of American military history between the Revolution and the Civil War: civil-military relations and the military‘s place in American society and politics; westward expansion and the diverse peacetime missions assigned the military, especially constabulary missions and operations; force structure, mobilization and the formation of military strategy in support of national objectives; and military preparedness, administration, reform and professionalization. The introduction links all of these issues, pointing to the increasing scale, scope and organization and the growing dominance of national forces in American military institutions and operations during this important period.
Author : Robert Walter Frazer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806112503
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Forts of the West written by Robert Walter Frazer and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number and variety of forts and posts, together with changes of location, name, and designation, have posed perplexing problems for students of western history. Now Robert W. Frazer has prepared a systematic listing of all presidios and military forts, which were ever, at any time and in any sense, so designated. The lists of posts are arranged alphabetically within the boundaries of present states. Pertinent information is included for each fort: date of establishment, location, and reason for establishment; name, rank, and military unit of the person establishing the post; origin of the post name and changes in name and location; present status or date of abandonment; and disposition of any existing military reservation. A map for each state shows the location of the posts discussed. A prime reference for historians, Forts of the West will prove useful to readers of western history as well.
