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Military Register of Custer's Last Command - Roger L. Williams

The most extensive reference available on the 7th CavalryMilitary Register of Custer's Last Command presents for the first time the complete military history of every enlisted man on the regimental roll, with particular attention devoted to the well-known campaigns from the Washita to Wounded Knee.As the first in-depth analysis of the statistics related to the battle, Military Register of Custer's Last Command is the most extensive work available on the 7th Cavalry. With its exhaustive bibliography,..

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Yellowstone Command - Jerome A. Greene

Shortly after Custer's defeat in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Colonel Nelson A. Miles and his Fifth Infantry launched several significant campaigns to destroy the Lakota-Northern Cheyenne coalition in the Yellowstone River basin. Miles's expeditions involved relentless pursuit and attack throughout the winter months, culminating in the Lame Deer Fight of May 1877, the last major engagement of the Great Sioux War.Yellowstone Command is the first detailed account of the harrowing 1876-1877 campaigns...

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Borrowed Soldiers - Americans under British Command, 1918 - Mitchell A. Yockelson

The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war's end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians.

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A Texas Ranger - N. A. Jennings

Eighteen-year-old Jennings came to Texas in 1874 and joined a special force of Texas rangers charged with border patrol under the command of L.H Mcnelly. Hardin explores the authenticity of Jennings' account and imparts the story of the fued between Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb.

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Selling Sea Power - Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917-1941 - Ryan D. Wadle

Offers a unique look at the complex links between the evolution of the art and industry of persuasion and the growth of the modern US Navy, as well as the connections between the workings of communications and public relations and the command of military and political power.

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Men Against Fire - The Problem of Battle Command - S. L. A. Marshall

Originally published: Washington: Infantry Journal; New York: William Morrow & Co., c1947.

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The Commanders - Civil War Generals Who Shaped the American West - Robert M. Utley

Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post-Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert Utley examines the careers of seven military leaders who served as major generals for the Union in the Civil War, then as brigadier generals in command of the US Army's western departments.

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Washington's Revolutionary War Generals - Stephen R. Taaffe

A study of the Revolutionary War careers of the Continental Army's generals - their experience, performance, and relationships with Washington and the Continental Congress - this book provides an overview of the politics of command, both within and outside the army, and a unique perspective on how it affected Washington's prosecution of the war.

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Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors - James Hughes Callahan and the Day Family in the Guadalupe River Basin - Thomas O. McDonald

With a sharp eye for character and detail, and with a wealth of material at his command, author Thomas McDonald tells a story as crackling with life as it is steeped in scholarly research. In these pages the lives of the Callahan and Day families become a canvas on which the history of Texas dramatically, inexorably unfolds.

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The Battle of Lake Champlain - John H. Schroeder

On September 11, 1814, an American naval squadron under Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough defeated a formidable British force on Lake Champlain under the command of Captain George Downie, effectively ending the British invasion of the Champlain Valley during the War of 1812. This decisive battle had far-reaching repercussions in Canada, the United States, England, and Ghent, Belgium, where peace talks were under way. Examining the naval and land campaign in strategic, political, and military terms,..

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Mormons at the Missouri - Winter Quarters, 1846-1852 - Richard E. Bennett

The Mormon trek westward from Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley was an enduring accomplishment of American overland trail migration; however, their wintering at the Missouri River near present-day Omaha was a feat of faith and perseverance. Richard E. Bennett presents new facts and ideas that challenge old assumptions-particularly that life on the frontier encouraged American individualism.With an excellent command of primary sources, Bennett assesses the role of women in a pioneer society and the..

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Wellington's Two-Front War - Joshua Moon

Sir Arthur Wellesley's 1808-1814 campaigns against Napoleon's forces in the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for two centuries. Yet, until now, no study has focused on the problems that Wellesley, later known as the Duke of Wellington, encountered on the home front before his eventual triumph beyond the Pyrenees. In Wellington's Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellington's command of British forces against the French but also describes the battles Wellington..

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The Commanders - Robert M. Utley

Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post-Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven military leaders who served as major generals for the Union in the Civil War, then as brigadier generals in command of the U.S. Army's western departments. By examining both periods in their careers, Utley makes a unique contribution in delineating these commanders' strengths and weaknesses.While some of the book's subjects-notably Generals George Crook..

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A British Profession of Arms - The Politics of Command in the Late Victorian Army - Ian F. W. Beckett

Within the context of debates about both the evolution of Victorian professions and the nature of military professionalism, F.W. Beckett considers the late Victorian officer corps as a case study for weighing distinctions between the British soldier and his civilian counterparts.

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Wellington's Two-Front War - The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808-1814 - Joshua Moon

Sir Arthur Wellesley''s 1808-1814 campaigns against Napoleon''s forces in the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for two centuries. Yet, until now, no study has focused on the problems that Wellesley, later known as the Duke of Wellington, encountered on the home front before his eventual triumph beyond the Pyrenees. In Wellington''s Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellington''s command of British forces against the French but also describes the battles..