The Department of War, 1781-1795
Author: Harry M. Ward
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Harry M. Ward
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Harry M. Ward
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0822975467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Harry M. Ward examines the formative years of the Department of War as a microcosm of the development of a centralized federal government. The Department of War was unique among early government agencies, as the only office that continued under the same administrator from the time of the Confederation to government under the Constitution. After the peace was established with Britain, citizens were suspicious of keeping a standing army, but administrator Benjamin Lincoln's efficient administration did much to dispel their fears. Henry Knox was the second Secretary, and he faced the problem of maintaining peace on the frontier, as his tiny army twice lost battles with Indians. It was only after the Whiskey Rebellion and Shay's Rebellion, that the young nation fully comprehended the importance of a maintaining a national military.
Author: Harry M. Ward
Publisher:
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780758116024
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mary C. Gillett
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Appendices include laws and legislation concerning the Army Medical Department. Maps include those of territories and frontiers and Continental Army hospital locations. Illustrations are chiefly portraits.
Author: Robert L. Tonsetic
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 2011-10-20
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1612000789
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A detailed chronicle—including eyewitness accounts—of the year American Patriots turned the tables on the British in the US War of Independence. In 1781, the future of America hung by a thread. British troops occupied key coastal cities, from New York to Savannah. After several harsh winters, the American army was fast approaching the breaking point. Mutinies began to emerge in George Washington’s ranks, and it was only the arrival of French troops that provided a ray of hope for the American cause. 1781 was a year of battles, from the Patriot victory in the Battle of Cowpens, to Gen. Nathaniel Greene’s impressive Southern campaign. In the Siege of Yorktown, the French fleet, the British fleet, Greene, Washington, and the French army under Rochambeau all converged in a fateful battle that would end with Cornwallis’s surrender on October 19. In this book, Robert Tonsetic provides a detailed analysis of the key battles and campaigns of 1781, supported by numerous eyewitness accounts, from privates to generals in the American, French, and British armies. He also describes the diplomatic efforts underway in Europe during 1781, as well as the Continental Congress’s actions to resolve the immense financial, supply, and personnel problems involved in maintaining an effective fighting army in the field.
Author: Robert K. Wright, Jr.
Publisher:
Published: 2004-07-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781410214799
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book was written to explore the contribution of Revolutionary War veterans to the founding of the American republic. By veterans, we mean all those who served in the Continental and state forces, on land or sea. Twenty three of those veterans were among the men who signed the Constitution in Philadelphia on 17 September 1787. That document, as the eminent American historian Samuel Eliot Morison put it, is "a work of genius, since it set up what every earlier political scientist had thought impossible, a sovereign union of sovereign states. This reconciling of unity with diversity, this practical application of the federal principle, is undoubtedly the most original contribution of the United States to the history and technique of human liberty."
Author: Robert K. Wright
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Robert W. Coakley
Publisher: Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Published: 2011-06
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781780394435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Harry M. Ward
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2009-10-08
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0809386550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.