Author: Joseph RitnerPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
An Address Delivered Before the Corps of Cadets of the United States Military Academy, at West-Point, on the Fifty-third Anniversary of American Independence
Author: Joseph RitnerPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy
Author: Robert M. S. McDonaldPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Although Jefferson feared the potential power of a standing army, the contributors point out he also contended that "whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." They take a broad view of Jeffersonian security policy, exploring the ways in which West Point bolstered America's defenses against foreign aggression and domestic threats to the ideals of the American Revolution." "Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy should appeal to scholars and general readers interested in military history and the founding generation."--BOOK JACKET.
The Vistas of American Military History 1800-1898
Author: Dr Brian Holden-ReidPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317983653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A team of leading American military historians here investigate the factors that shaped the United States Army in the nineteenth century. Throwing new light on its history, this deeply researched book explores a mulitplicity of themes. These include the social structure, command system and relationship with civil power which are all important in assessing its efficiency and behaviour in war; and the way the army is depicted in military literature and cinema which affects its social portrait. Deliberately exploring neglected themes, this key work includes discussion on: * the roles of the many volunteer colonels in the Mexican War, 1846-48 * Robert Wettemann and the alleged 'isolation' of the US Army in the nineteenth century * John Ford's famous 'cavalry trilogy' of motion pictures. Containing so much food for thought, for students of US history and military history this is an entertaining as well as instructional book.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Author/title Catalog of Americana, 1493-1860, in the William L. Clements Library
Author: William L. Clements LibraryPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue Extracted from the Catalogues of the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the Library of Trinity College (Dublin), the National Library of Scotland, and the University Libraries of Cambridge and Newcastle: Phase 1: 1816-1870. v.15. Fort - Fyv and Indexes for volumes 11-15. v.20. Hor-Hunt, W. R. and Indexes for v. 16-20. v.21. Hunten-Jero. v.22. Jerp-Kief. v.23. Kieg-Lecom. v.24. Lecon-Lorc. v.25. Lord-Maccaul and Indexes for volumes 21-25
Author: Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book ShopPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Cadet Life at West Point
Author: Hugh T ReedPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
I was not more than eight years old when I first heard about West Point, and then I was told that it was Uncle Sam's Military School; that the young men there were called cadets; that they were soldiers, and that they wore pretty uniforms with brass buttons on them. The impression made upon me at the time was such that I never tired talking and asking questions about West Point. I soon learned to indicate the site on the map, and I longed to go there, that I might be a cadet and wear brass buttons. I talked about it so much that my good mother made me a coat generous with brass buttons. I called it my cadet coat, and wore it constantly. Ah! for the day I should be a big boy and be a real cadet. With a wooden gun I played soldier, and when the war broke out and the soldiers camped in our old fair grounds, I was in their camp at every opportunity. The camp was about half-way between our home farm and father's store in town, and many is the time I have been scolded for being so much at the camp. My only regret at that time was that I was not old enough to enlist, for I loved to watch the drills and linger around the camp-fires, listening to stories of the war.
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