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Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A Circumstantial Journal of the Long and Tedious Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar, from the twelfth of September, 1779, to the third day of February, 1783 ... By an Officer [i.e. Samuel Ancell]. [With a plate.]
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Author: The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
English watering-places
Author: Edwin LeeFresh from the Farm 6pk
Author: RigbyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781418914219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Army Life on the Western Frontier
Author: George CroghanPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806146400
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
From Fort Snelling on the upper Mississippi and Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri to Fort St. Philip below New Orleans, the string of military bases along the western frontier of the United States played an essential part in the orderly advance of settlement following the War of 1812. Small, isolated , and insignificant in terms of fortification—after all, the authorized strength of the whole army was only 6,000 men—they were nevertheless the stabilizing and moderating force in the dramatic "rise of the new West." For twenty years prior to the Mexican War, Colonel George Croghan, as inspector general of the army, examined these frontier garrisons with a critical eye. His reports give an intimate, firsthand picture of what the western outposts were really like. Moreover, whether lashing out at the unreasonable discipline prescribed for privates or quietly commending an officer's good work, he wrote with a warmth and vitality seldom found in government documents. Arranged topically with brief introductions by the editor, the reports cover all phases of army life: quarters, clothing, the mess, hospitals and medical care, army chaplains, quartermaster supplies, the small arms of the troops, instruction, fatigue duties, military discipline, recruiting, and army sutlers. They also contain much additional information on roads, frontier conditions, Indian affairs, and related matters. George Croghan was a perceptive reporter, and his account of life and conditions at the western forts will prove valuable and interesting to the western Americana enthusiast as well as to the student of western history.
History of the United States Cavalry
Author: Albert Gallatin BrackettPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A good history of the cavalry from 1793 through the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, Indian campaigns, the revolution in Texas, and the beginning of the Civil War. Some of the material is drawn from the author's own experiences. As this book was published in 1865 it does not cover the Plains Indian campaigns of the late 19th century.
Frontiersmen in Blue
Author: Robert Marshall UtleyPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803295506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Frontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. Between 1848 and 1865 the men in blue fought nearly all of the western tribes. Robert Utley describes many of these skirmishes in consummate detail, including descriptions of garrison life that was sometimes agonizingly isolated, sometimes caught in the lightning moments of desperate battle.
