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Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Robert Wooster
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: UNM Press

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For the U.S. Army, Western experiences illustrated its role in ensuring national security and in fostering national development. Its soldiers performed feats of
Frontier Regulars
Language: en
Pages: 514
Authors: Robert Marshall Utley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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Details the U.S. Army's campaign in the years following the Civil War to contain the American Indian and promote Western expansion
Army and Empire
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Michael Norman McConnell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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The end of the Seven Years? War found Britain?s professional army in America facing new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In addition to occupying the recently c
Peacekeepers and Conquerors
Language: en
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Authors: Samuel J. Watson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-23 - Publisher: University Press of Kansas

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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 th
Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Durwood Ball
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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Unlike previous histories, this book argues that the politics of slavery profoundly influenced the western mission of the regular army - affecting the hearts an