Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812
Author: Carl Edward Skeen
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
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Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780813128801
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Author: Carl Edward Skeen
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
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Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780813128801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kyle F. Zelner
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2010-11
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0814797342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile it lasted only sixteen months, King Philip’s War (1675-1676) was arguably one of the most significant of the colonial wars that wracked early America. As the first major military crisis to directly strike one of the Empire’s most important possessions: the Massachusetts Bay Colony, King Philip’s War marked the first time that Massachusetts had to mobilize mass numbers of ordinary, local men to fight. In this exhaustive social history and community study of Essex County, Massachusetts’s militia, Kyle F. Zelner boldly challenges traditional interpretations of who was called to serve during this period. Drawing on muster and pay lists as well as countless historical records, Zelner demonstrates that Essex County’s more upstanding citizens were often spared from impressments, while the “rabble” — criminals, drunkards, the poor— were forced to join active fighting units, with town militia committees selecting soldiers who would be least missed should they die in action. Enhanced by illustrations and maps, A Rabble in Arms shows that, despite heroic illusions of a universal military obligation, town fathers, to damaging effects, often placed local and personal interests above colonial military concerns.
Author: War office
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: American Battlefield Trust
Publisher: Knox Press
Published: 2021-07-06
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780998811246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the American Battlefield Trust, an unparalleled collection of their popular battle maps of the Revolutionary War. “Wow! I just love those maps that you guys send to me.” It is a phrase that the staff of the American Battlefield Trust hears on a weekly basis and the expression refers to one of the cornerstone initiatives of the organization, mapping the battlefields of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and the American Civil War. The American Battlefield Trust is the premier battlefield preservation organization in the United States. Over the last thirty years the American Battlefield Trust and its members have preserved more than 54,000 acres of battlefield land across 145 battlefields, in twenty-four states—at sites such as Lexington & Concord, Brandywine, Yorktown, Shiloh, and Gettysburg. Other than physically walking across the hallowed battle grounds that the American Battlefield Trust has saved, the best way to illustrate the importance of the properties that we have preserved is through our battle maps. Through the decades, the American Battlefield Trust has created hundreds of maps detailing the action at major battles. Now, for the first time in book form, we have collected the maps of some of the most iconic battles of the Revolutionary War. In Vol. 3 of our Battle Maps of the American Battlefield Trust series, you can follow the course of the war from Lexington & Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown. Study the major actions of the Revolutionary War from start to finish utilizing this unparalleled collection of maps.
Author: United States War Department. Division of Militia Affairs
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 800
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 2060
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 432
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 438
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 684
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