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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
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Category : Manuscripts on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
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Category : Manuscripts on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Richard Kluger
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307388964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Kluger brings to life a bloody clash between Native Americans and white settlers in the 1850s Pacific Northwest. After he was appointed the first governor of the state of Washington, Isaac Ingalls Stevens had one goal: to persuade the Indians of the Puget Sound region to leave their ancestral lands for inhospitable reservations. But Stevens's program--marked by threat and misrepresentation--outraged the Nisqually tribe and its chief, Leschi, sparking the native resistance movement. Tragically, Leschi's resistance unwittingly turned his tribe and himself into victims of the governor's relentless wrath. The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek is a riveting chronicle of how violence and rebellion grew out of frontier oppression and injustice.

Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Mark A. Smith
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817359907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Thorough examination of the antebellum fortifications that formed the backbone of U.S. military defense during the National Period The system of coastal defenses built by the federal government after the War of 1812 was more than a series of forts standing guard over a watery frontier. It was an integrated and comprehensive plan of national defense developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, and it represented the nation’s first peacetime defense policy. Known as the Third System since it replaced two earlier attempts, it included coastal fortifications but also denoted the values of the society that created it. The governing defense policy was one that combined permanent fortifications to defend seaports, a national militia system, and a small regular army. The Third System remained the defense paradigm in the United States from 1816 to 1861, when the onset of the Civil War changed the standard. In addition to providing the country with military security, the system also provided the context for the ongoing discussion in Congress over national defense through annual congressional debates on military funding.

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Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 790

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Author: Library of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 662

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