The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814Cambridge University Press, 31 de gen. 2005 - 232 pàgines This 2005 book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged against Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. The sanguinary story of the American conquest of the Indian peoples east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US 'special operations' in the War on Terror. |
Continguts
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The First Way of Wars Origins in Colonial America | 16 |
The First Way of War in the North American Wars of King George II 17391755 | 53 |
Continental and British Petite Guerre circa 1750 | 87 |
The First Way of War in the Seven Years War 17541763 | 115 |
The First Way of War in the Era of the American Revolution | 146 |
The First Way of War in the 1790s | 170 |
The First Way of War and the Final Conquest of the Transappalachian West | 204 |
Epilogue | 221 |
Index | 227 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814 John Grenier Previsualització no disponible - 2005 |
The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814 John Grenier Previsualització no disponible - 2008 |
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Pàgina vi - Mind, none of us would feel exactly like this. What saves us is efficiency — the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect.
Pàgina vi - The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only.
Pàgina 144 - You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.
Pàgina 144 - Could it not be contrived to send the Small Pox among those disaffected tribes of Indians ? We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them.
Pàgina 115 - Remember the barbarities that have been committed by the enemy's Indian scoundrels on every occasion, where they had an opportunity of showing their infamous cruelties on the King's subjects, which they have done without mercy. Take your revenge, but don't forget that tho...
Pàgina 5 - Therefore, if we find civilised nations do not put their prisoners to death, do not devastate towns and countries, this is because their intelligence exercises greater influence on their mode of carrying on War, and has taught them more effectual means of applying force than these rude acts of mere instinct.
Pàgina 175 - the disgraceful violation of the treaty of Hopewell with the Cherokee requires the serious consideration of Congress. If so direct and manifest contempt of the authority of the United States be suffered with impunity, it will be in vain to attempt to extend the arm of government to the frontiers.
Pàgina vi - It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind—as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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"Going Down Hill": Legacies of the American Revolutionary War Harry M. Ward Previsualització limitada - 2009 |