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The Continental Army
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Author : Robert K. Wright
language : en
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army
Release Date : 1983
The Continental Army written by Robert K. Wright and has been published by Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
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.
A Revolutionary People At War
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Author : Charles Royster
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2011-02-01
A Revolutionary People At War written by Charles Royster and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with History categories.
In this highly acclaimed book, Charles Royster explores the mental processes and emotional crises that Americans faced in their first national war. He ranges imaginatively outside the traditional techniques of analytical historical exposition to build his portrait of how individuals and a populace at large faced the Revolution and its implications. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.
America Goes To War
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Author : Charles Patrick Neimeyer
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1997-06
America Goes To War written by Charles Patrick Neimeyer and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06 with History categories.
Neimeyer for the first time reveals who really served in the army during the Revolution and why. His conclusions are startling. The long-termed Continental soldiers were not those whom historians have traditionally associated with the defense of liberty.
The Continental Army
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Author : Robert K. Wright Jr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-09-12
The Continental Army written by Robert K. Wright Jr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-12 with History categories.
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. On 19 April 1775 local Massachusetts militiamen and regular British troops began the War of American Independence at Lexington and Concord. The New England colonists reacted to this news by raising four separate armies. Each jurisdiction formed its force according to its particular experience in earlier wars and its individual interpretation of European military developments over the previous century. The speed of the American response stemmed from a decade of tension and from the tentative preparations for possible armed conflict that the colonists had made during the preceding months. The concentration of four separate armed forces at Boston under loose Massachusetts hegemony as a de facto regional army paved the way for establishing a national Continental Army. The Continental Army was the product of European military science, but like all institutions developed by the American colonists, its European origins had been modified by the particular conditions of American experience. A proper appreciation of that Army in the context of its own times thus requires an understanding not only of the general developments in the military art of western civilization during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but also of the particular martial traditions and experiences of the English colonists in North America. In the seventeenth century Europeans developed a new range of weapons and gradually introduced them into their armies. At the same time a wave of dynastic wars in western Europe led to the creation of increasingly larger forces serving nation-states. Commanders and leading military theoreticians spent most of the eighteer: th century developing organizational structures and tactical doctrines to exploit the potential of the new weapons and armies. The full impact of these changes came at the end of that century. Volume contains 18th century correspondence as it appeared at the time.
George Washington S Enforcers
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Author : Harry M. Ward
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2009-10-08
George Washington S Enforcers written by Harry M. Ward and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-08 with History categories.
A well-disciplined army was vital to win American independence, but policing soldiers during the Revolution presented challenges. George Washington’s Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army examines how justice was left to the overlapping duties of special army personnel and how an improvised police force imposed rules and regulations on the common soldier. Historian Harry M. Ward describes these methods of police enforcement, emphasizing the brutality experienced by the enlisted men who were punished severely for even light transgressions. This volume explores the influences that shaped army practice and the quality of the soldiery, the enforcement of military justice, the use of guards as military police, and the application of punishment. Washington’s army, which adopted the organization and justice code of the British army, labored under the direction of ill-trained and arrogant officers. Ward relates how the enlisted men, who had a propensity for troublemaking and desertion, not only were victims of the double standard that existed between officers and regular troops but also lacked legal protection in the army. The enforcement of military justice afforded the accused with little due process support. Ward discusses the duties of the various personnel responsible for training and enforcing the standards of behavior, including duty officers, adjutants, brigade majors, inspectors, and sergeant majors. He includes the roles of life guards, camp guards, quarter guards, picket men, and safe guards, whose responsibilities ranged from escorting the commander in chief, intercepting spies and stragglers, and protecting farmers from marauding soldiers to searching for deserters, rounding up unauthorized personnel, and looking for delinquents in local towns and taverns. George Washington’s Enforcers, which includes sixteen illustrations, also addresses the executions of the period, as both ritual and spectacle, and the deterrent value of capital punishment. Ward explains how Washington himself mixed clemency with severity and examines how army policies tested the mettle of this chief disciplinarian, who operated by the dictates of military necessity as perceived at the time.
The Continental Army
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Author : Robert K. Wright (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Continental Army written by Robert K. Wright (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with United States categories.
Historical Register Of Officers Of The Continental Army During The War Of The Revolution April 1775 To December 1783
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Author : Francis Bernard Heitman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
Historical Register Of Officers Of The Continental Army During The War Of The Revolution April 1775 To December 1783 written by Francis Bernard Heitman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with United States categories.
Congress S Own
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Author : Holly A. Mayer
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2021-04-01
Congress S Own written by Holly A. Mayer and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-01 with History categories.
Colonel Moses Hazen’s 2nd Canadian Regiment was one of the first “national” regiments in the American army. Created by the Continental Congress, it drew members from Canada, eleven states, and foreign forces. “Congress’s Own” was among the most culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse of the Continental Army’s regiments—a distinction that makes it an apt reflection of the union that was struggling to create a nation. The 2nd Canadian, like the larger army, represented and pushed the transition from a colonial, continental alliance to a national association. The problems the regiment raised and encountered underscored the complications of managing a confederation of states and troops. In this enterprising study of an intriguing and at times “infernal” regiment, Holly A. Mayer marshals personal and official accounts—from the letters and journals of Continentals and congressmen to the pension applications of veterans and their widows—to reveal what the personal passions, hardships, and accommodations of the 2nd Canadian can tell us about the greater military and civil dynamics of the American Revolution. Congress’s Own follows congressmen, commanders, and soldiers through the Revolutionary War as the regiment’s story shifts from tents and trenches to the halls of power and back. Interweaving insights from borderlands and community studies with military history, Mayer tracks key battles and traces debates that raged within the Revolution’s military and political borderlands wherein subjects became rebels, soldiers, and citizens. Her book offers fresh, vivid accounts of the Revolution that disclose how “Congress’s Own” regiment embodied the dreams, diversity, and divisions within and between the Continental Army, Congress, and the emergent union of states during the War for American Independence.
Biographical Sketches Of The Generals Of The Continental Army Of The Revolution
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Author : Mary Theresa Leiter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Biographical Sketches Of The Generals Of The Continental Army Of The Revolution written by Mary Theresa Leiter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Generals categories.
A Timeline Of The Continental Army
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Author : Phillip Margulies
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Release Date : 2003-11
A Timeline Of The Continental Army written by Phillip Margulies and has been published by Taylor & Francis US this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Provides a chronological look at the Continental Army, a band of American colonists who took up arms, defeated the mighty empire, Great Britain, and gained independence.