Peacekeepers and Conquerors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peacekeepers and Conquerors write by Samuel J. Watson. This book was released on 2013-04-23. Peacekeepers and Conquerors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Jackson's Sword, Samuel Watson showed how the U.S. Army officer corps played a crucial role in stabilizing the frontiers of a rapidly expanding nation. In this sequel volume, he chronicles how the corps' responsibilities and leadership along the young nation's borders continued to grow. In the process, he shows, officers reflected an increasing commitment to professionalism, insulation from partisanship, and deference to civilian authority-all tempered in the forge of frustrating, politically complex operations and diplomacy along the nation's frontiers. Watson now focuses on the quarter-century between the Army's reduction in force in 1821 and the Mexican War. He examines a broad swath of military activity beginning with campaigns against southeastern Indians, notably the dispossession of the Creeks remaining in Georgia and Alabama from 1825 to 1834; the expropriation of the Cherokee between 1836 and 1838; and the Second Seminole War. He also explores peacekeeping on the Canadian border, which exploded in rebellion against British rule at the end of 1837, prompting British officials to applaud the U.S. Army for calming tensions and demonstrating its government's support for the international state system. He then follows the gradual extension of U.S. sovereignty in the Southwest through military operations west of the Missouri River and along the Louisiana-Texas border from 1821 to 1838 and through dragoon expeditions onto the central and southern Plains between 1834 and 1845. Throughout his account, Watson shows how military professionalism did not develop independent of civilian society, nor was it simply a matter of growing expertise in the art of conventional warfare. Indeed, the government trusted career army officers to serve as federal, international, and interethnic mediators, national law enforcers, and de facto intercultural and international peacekeepers. He also explores officers' attitudes toward Britain, Oregon, Texas, and Mexico to assess their values and priorities on the eve of the first conventional war the United States had fought in more than three decades. Watson's detailed study delves deeply into sources that reveal what officers actually thought, wrote, and did in the frontier and border regions. By examining the range of operations over the course of this quarter-century, he shows that the processes of peacekeeping, coercive diplomacy, and conquest were intricately and inextricably woven together.
Conquerors for Christ
Conquerors for Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conquerors for Christ write by Michael James Robertson. This book was released on 2008-05. Conquerors for Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Conquerors for Christ is anointed and illuminated Bible scholarship that teaches you how to flow in the anointing, authority and power of Jesus Christ in these last days, asserting the same against, and enforcing the victory of the Cross of Christ and the power of His Resurrection over the enemy, sin, sin nature, death, sickness, oppression and possession of demons, the false pastors, preachers, prophets and teachers in the apostate church, and the ways of the world! You learn how to be a king and priest of Almighty God by living a lifestyle of Revolution, Revival and Restoration of the Cross, as well as proclaiming Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world! You learn how to become a trustee of the last Will and Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - His Gospel - thus executing His "Great Commission" and building up His glorious church! Michael James Robertson holds a Juris Doctor, possesses a wealth of high level Fortune 100 corporate and other entrepreneurial experience and is CEO & Pastor of God & Country Revival. The Ministry wins souls for Christ and equips the Army of the Light. Ministries are God & Country Revival Fellowship, USA & Kenya, Jesus Brigade, Crusades & Revivals, Television & Internet (www.godandcountryrevival.com), Visioning Institute, Trade Wind Ministries (intercessory), prison outreach, and other international outreaches, including Africa and India. An extension of the Acts church, the ministry preaches Christ and Him crucified and the power of the Resurrection, while raising up and sending out mighty men of God. Because of Robertson's passionate love of Jesus Christ, he has received the apostolic anointing to defend and confirm the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to expose sin by preaching the truth of the Gospel!
Preparing for War
Preparing for War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Preparing for War write by J. P. Clark. This book was released on 2017-01-02. Preparing for War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically between the War of 1812 and World War I. J. P. Clark shows how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of professional soldiers left their mark upon the Army and its ways.
The United States Army and the Making of America
The United States Army and the Making of America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The United States Army and the Making of America write by Robert Wooster. This book was released on 2021-04-01. The United States Army and the Making of America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903 is the story of how the American military—and more particularly the regular army—has played a vital role in the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States that extended beyond the battlefield. Repeatedly, Americans used the army not only to secure their expanding empire and fight their enemies, but to shape their nation and their vision of who they were, often in ways not directly associated with shooting wars or combat. That the regular army served as nation-builders is ironic, given the officer corps’ obsession with a warrior ethic and the deep-seated disdain for a standing army that includes Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, the writings of Henry David Thoreau, and debates regarding congressional appropriations. Whether the issue concerned Indian policy, the appropriate division of power between state and federal authorities, technology, transportation, communications, or business innovations, the public demanded that the military remain small even as it expected those forces to promote civilian development. Robert Wooster’s exhaustive research in manuscript collections, government documents, and newspapers builds upon previous scholarship to provide a coherent and comprehensive history of the U.S. Army from its inception during the American Revolution to the Philippine-American War. Wooster integrates its institutional history with larger trends in American history during that period, with a special focus on state-building and civil-military relations. The United States Army and the Making of America will be the definitive book on the army’s relationship with the nation from its founding to the dawn of the twentieth century and will be a valuable resource for a generation of undergraduates, graduate students, and virtually any scholar with an interest in the U.S. Army, American frontiers and borderlands, the American West, or eighteenth- and nineteenth-century nation-building.
The Broken Heart of America
The Broken Heart of America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Broken Heart of America write by Walter Johnson. This book was released on 2020-04-14. The Broken Heart of America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.
