Author: Lee B. Kennett
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Author: Thomas James Thackeray (Captain.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Author: Guy Rowlands
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521641241
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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The 'personal rule' of Louis XIV witnessed a massive increase in the size of the French army and an apparent improvement in the quality of its officers, its men and the War Ministry. However, this is the first book to treat the French army under Louis XIV as a living political, social and economic organism, an institution which reflected the dynastic interests and personal concerns of the king and his privileged subjects. The book explains the development of the army between the end of Cardinal Mazarin's ministry and the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, emphasising the awareness of Louis XIV and his ministers of the need to pay careful attention to the condition of the king's officers, and to take account of their military, political, social and cultural aspirations.
Author: United States Military Academy. Library
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
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Author: Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786462537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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This book gives the reader a straightforward and continuous survey of the history of the French Foreign Legion. By outlining the Legion’s vicissitudes, victorious campaigns, epic marches, heroic and sometimes hopeless stands, dirtiest combats and dramatic defeats, but also by briefly placing the Legion back in the historical background of France, and by describing its development, organization, uniforms, equipments and weapons, the author hopes to dispel myths, and try to give a true and accurate picture of what the French Foreign Legion has been from 1831 until today. There are well-researched, detailed line drawings throughout.
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Author: Philip Charles Farwell Bankwitz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674557017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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This is the first scholarly study of the prewar phase of the French army's development into a disruptive force in national life. A chapter from the portentous 20th-century story of the soldier in politics, it has relevance to contemporary situations in other western societies. The book includes an encyclopedic bibliography.
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Category : Red Cross
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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