Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ripon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Historic Ripon
Author: Historic Ripon
Author: George ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monasteries
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The History of Ripon, with Historic Notices and Descriptions of Fountains Abbey, Studley, ... Forming a Compendious Guide for Visitors
Author: Ripon
Author: John P. MangelosPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467106100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Ripon is a charming and quiet city in the San Joaquin Valley in Central California. The community is very faith-based, prioritizing tolerance, gratitude, and family, and these values have played out in the development of the town. In the past 100 years, very few buildings have been demolished but instead have been repaired and repurposed.
Historic Ripon
Author: George Parker (of Ripon.)Publisher:
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Category : Ripon (Yorkshire, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
RIPON
Author: John P. MangelosPublisher: Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN: 9781531654092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Like California, the valley town of Ripon owes it beginnings to early adventurers. A group of Mormons looking for the "Promised Land" in 1846 were the first Europeans to settle along the Stanislaus River near Ripon. In 1850, another adventurous early pioneer, William H. Crow, settled in the region, and the first school to be established in the county was subsequently named for him 12 years later, in 1862. William H. Hughes purchased 1,300 acres in 1857, and in 1872, he gave the railroad a right-of-way and provided land for the depot known as Stanislaus Station. Amplias B. Crook, postmaster of this station, proposed in 1874 to rename the community in honor of his hometown, Ripon, Wisconsin. Hence California's Ripon was established on December 21, 1874.
History of the City of Ripon
Author: David P. MapesPublisher:
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Category : Mapes, David P., b. 1798
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Ripon History Tour
Author: Maurice TaylorPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445689162
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A guided tour of the historic city of Ripon, showing how the areas you know and love have changed over the centuries.
The History of Ripon
Author: W. FarrerPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Creating the Modern Army
Author: William J. WoolleyPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700633022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The modern US Army as we know it was largely created in the years between the two world wars. Prior to World War I, officers in leadership positions were increasingly convinced that building a new army could not take place as a series of random developments but was an enterprise that had to be guided by a distinct military policy that enjoyed the support of the nation. In 1920, Congress accepted that idea and embodied it in the National Defense Act. In doing so it also accepted army leadership’s idea of entrusting America’s security to a unique force, the Citizen Army, and tasked the nation’s Regular Army with developing and training that force. Creating the Modern Army details the efforts of the Regular Army to do so in the face of austerity budgets and public apathy while simultaneously responding to the challenges posed by the new and revolutionary mechanization of warfare. In this book Woolley focuses on the development of what he sees as the four major features of the modernized army that emerged due to these efforts. These included the creation of the civilian components of the new army: the Citizen’s Military Training Camps, the Officer Reserve Corps, the National Guard, and the Reserve Officer Training Corps; the development of the four major combat branches as the structural basis for organizing the army as well as creating the means to educate new officers and soldiers about their craft and to socialize them into an army culture; the creation of a rationalized and progressive system of professional military education; and the initial mechanization of the combat branches. Woolley also points out how the development of the army in this period was heavily influenced by policies and actions of the president and Congress. The US Army that fought World War II was clearly a citizen army whose leadership was largely trained within the framework of the institutions of the army created by the National Defense Act. The way that army fought the war may have been less decisive and more costly in terms of lives and money than it should have been. But that army won the war and therefore validated the citizen army as the US way of war.