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Category : History, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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Author: International Commission of Military History
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Languages : en
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Author: Frank Whitney
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476662134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Jean Ternant's life (1751-1833) spanned a period of enormous change in European life. Born when men were still subject to judicial torture, he lived to see the dawn of the railroad age. It was an era of political upheaval: the American Revolution, the "patriot" movement of the Dutch Republic, the Vonckist uprising in the Austrian Netherlands, the French Revolution, the Polish rebellion against Imperial Russia, the Greek war for independence and the struggle for independence in Spain's South American colonies all occurred during Ternant's lifetime. He was an active participant in four of them. The son of a French leather goods merchant, Jean Ternant nevertheless built a public service career in an aristocratic society based on birth and privilege, commanding a regiment in the French army before being appointed minister-plenipotentiary to the United States. His story of public service undertaken for private ends illustrates the value of education and social contacts as well as the importance of luck and circumstances.

Author: Christopher Duffy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135794588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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First published in 1987. War in the 18th century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. Christopher Duffy's investigates the brutalities of the battlefield and also traces the lives of the officer to the soldier from the formative conditions of their earliest years to their violent deaths or retirement, and shows that, below their well-ordered exteriors, the armies of the Age of Reason underwent a revolutionary change from medieval to modern structures and ways of thinking.

Author: Robert K. Wright
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Author: Peter Dennis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000259293
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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‘The Duke is a soldier – a bad education for a statesmen in a free country’. Sir Walter Scott’s fear of the political soldier has long been part of Western political life. Yet although many countries would have preferred to keep the military out of politics few have been successful. Originally published in 1976, this book examines the careers of five distinguished twentieth century soldiers and assesses their contribution as statesmen. Hindenburg, Byng, Franco, Eisenhower and De Gaulle all came into political life in different circumstances, but none did so in the name of the profession or to establish a praetorian state. Each was a professional soldier who found himself drawn into the political arena. Each of these essays illuminates one aspect of the range of political, sociological and historical issues which now surround the interrelationship of civil and military. At a time when the tensions of democracy, both internally and externally, impose increasing pressure on the role of the military in society it is important to study the history of soldiers-as-statesmen.

Author: Robert K. Wright
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author: Carl W. Reddel
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Lawrence S. Kaplan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0842026304
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Focuses on Thomas Jefferson's role as a maker of foreign policy. This biography explores how the concept of the United States' westward expansion worked as the moving force in forming Jefferson's judgments and actions in foreign relations.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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