Author : Randy Steffen
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
ISBN : 9780806112831
Author : Randy Steffen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Military uniforms
ISBN : 9780860112839
Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0875651461
This is an excellent history of Fort Worth, Texas. Founded in 1849 as an army outpost in what was then the western frontier of Texas. The soldiers were there to protect settlers. The book features original architectural drawings of what the original fort probably looked like. The illustrator researched the fort through the National Archives and other records and came up with artist's views of the frontier outpost. The accompanying text explains the history of the fort and how it grew into one of the country's great cities.
Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1109 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1851099573
This work is the most comprehensive reference work on the War of 1812 yet published, offering a multidisciplinary treatment of course, causes, effects, and specific details of the War that provides both quick reference and in-depth analysis for readers from the high school level to scholars in the field. The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812: A Political, Social, and Military History dedicates 872 entries—totaling some 600,000 words—to this important American war. It is the most comprehensive and significant reference work available on the subject. Its entries spotlight the key battles, standout individuals, essential weapons, and social, political, and economic developments, and examine the wider, concurrent European developments which directly affected this conflict in North America. A volume of primary documents provides more avenues for research. This three-volume work offers comprehensive, in-depth information in a format that lends itself to quick and easy use, making it ideal for high school, college, and university-level learners as well as general learning annexes and military libraries. Scholars of the period and students of American military history will find it essential reading.
Author : Charles M. Haecker
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Battlefields
ISBN :
Author : Earl Arthur Shoemaker
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Fort Scott (Kan.)
ISBN :
Author : Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1250111838
"A Glow of Patriotic Fire"--"Salutary Neglect" -- "Force Prevails Now Everywhere" -- "For Cutting Off Our Trade" -- "To The Shores of Tripoli" -- "The Reign of Witches" -- "Free Trade and Sailors Rights" -- "War Now! War Always!" -- "Remember the Raisin" -- "Purified As by Fire" -- "Father, Listen to Your Children" -- "You Shall Now Feel the Effects of War" -- "Destroy and Lay Waste" -- "Hard War" -- "So Proudly We Hail" -- "I Must Not Be Lost
Author : Richard Bruce Winders
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585441624
Drawing on numerous diaries, journals, and reminiscences, Richard Bruce Winders presents the daily life of soldiers at war; links the army to the society that produced it; shares his impressions of the soldiers he "met" along the way; and concludes that American participants in the Mexican War shared a common experience, no matter their rank or place of service. Taking a "new" military history approach, Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War examines the cultural, social, and political aspects of the regular and volunteer forces that made up the army of 1846-48, presents the organizational framework of the army, and introduces the different styles of leadership exhibited by Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott.
Author : Doug Hocking
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1493041800
*Winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Nonfiction* In the 1840s and 50s, the Jicarilla Apache were the terror of the Santa Fe Trail and the Rio Arriba. They repeatedly clashed with the cavalry and raided wagon trains, and there was bad blood between the band and the Army after the Battle of San Pasqual, when they were on opposite sides during the Mexican American War. In 1854, as traffic was on the increase along the historic trade route, the Jicarilla soundly defeated the 1st United States Dragoons in the Battle of Cieneguilla. Cieneguilla was the worst defeat of the US Army in the West up to that time, and it was just one of the first major battles between the US Army and Apache forces during the Ute Wars. According to one version of events, the 60 dragoons, under the direction of a Lt. Davidson, had engaged in an unauthorized attack on theJicarilla while they were out on patrol. Others claimed that the Jicarilla either ambushed the Army or taunted them into attack. Kit Carson, who was agent for the Jicarilla, would defend Davidson’s actions—and after this fight, he served as a scout against the Jicarilla. Much like the Sioux defeat of Custer at Little Big Horn, the Jicarilla’s victory over the Army led to retribution and disaster. The Jicarilla were defeated and faded from memory before the Civil War. These are the events that brought them to ruin.
Author : Bruce P. Gleason
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 080615652X
Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies, mounted bands played a unique and distinctive role in American military history. Their fascinating story within the U.S. Army unfolds in this latest book from noted music historian and former army musician Bruce P. Gleason. Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums follows American horse-mounted bands from the nation's military infancy through its emergence as a world power during World War II and the corresponding shift from horse-powered to mechanized cavalry. Gleason traces these bands to their origins, including the horn-blowing Celtic and Roman cavalries of antiquity and the mounted Middle Eastern musicians whom European Crusaders encountered in the Holy Land. He describes the performance, musical selections, composition, and duties of American mounted bands that have served regular, militia, volunteer, and National Guard regiments in military and civil parades and concerts, in ceremonies, and on the battlefield. Over time the composition of the bands has changed—beginning with trumpets and drums and expanding to full-fledged concert bands on horseback. Woven throughout the book are often-surprising strands of American military history from the War of 1812 through the Civil War, action on the western frontier, and the two world wars. Touching on anthropology, musicology, and the history of the United States and its military, Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums is an unparalleled account of mounted military bands and their cultural significance.
