A Wilderness of Miseries: War and Warriors in Early AmericaBloomsbury Academic, 3 dec 1980 - 250 pagina's |
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Pagina 157
... army of 200,000 men . What did change was the composition of these armies . The old policy of raising conscripts from nearly all segments of society fell into abeyance . Armies increasingly were drawn from three segments of society ...
... army of 200,000 men . What did change was the composition of these armies . The old policy of raising conscripts from nearly all segments of society fell into abeyance . Armies increasingly were drawn from three segments of society ...
Pagina 182
... army of four infantry regiments and one artillery regiment with a corps of engineers , erecting five arsenals capable of arming thirty thousand | troops for a three - year period , and maintaining a restructured network of state ...
... army of four infantry regiments and one artillery regiment with a corps of engineers , erecting five arsenals capable of arming thirty thousand | troops for a three - year period , and maintaining a restructured network of state ...
Pagina 184
... army , " must receive the blow , before we could even prepare to return it . " America was becoming a commercial giant , he added , and any army must be kept at all times to prevent attacks from maritime rivals on the " dockyards ...
... army , " must receive the blow , before we could even prepare to return it . " America was becoming a commercial giant , he added , and any army must be kept at all times to prevent attacks from maritime rivals on the " dockyards ...
Inhoudsopgave
The Nature of American | 1 |
War and Society | 3 |
The Indian Wars | 29 |
Copyright | |
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