Battle For The Southern Frontier

Author : Mike Bunn,Clay Williams
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1596293713

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Battle for the Southern Frontier by Mike Bunn,Clay Williams Pdf

"Many conflicts in this nation's history compete for the title of most unknown war, but the Creek War of 1813-1814 and the related Southern campaigns of the larger War of 1812 have perhaps the best claim on that notoriety. Little understood because of their brevity, relative small military forces engaged and complexity, these conflicts dramatically altered the history of the United States. The Creek War and the War of 1812 initiated several far-reaching changes in the Old Southwest, the frontier region that included portions of Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Florida and the future states of Mississippi and Alabama. These wars led to the further development of slave-based cotton agriculture in the region, the forced removal of Native Americans, the securing of large portions of the Gulf South against European powers and perhaps most importantly, launched the career of one of America's most influential military and political leaders"--Preface.

Author : Mike Bunn,Clay Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625843814

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Battle for the Southern Frontier by Mike Bunn,Clay Williams Pdf

This comprehensive book is the first to chronicle both wars and document the sites on which they were fought. It sheds light on how the wars led to the forced removal of Native Americans from the region, secured the Gulf South against European powers, facilitated increased migration into the area, furthered the development of slave-based agriculture and launched the career of Andrew Jackson.

Author : John Laband
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300206197

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Zulu Warriors by John Laband Pdf

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the British embarked on a concerted series of campaigns in South Africa. Within three years they waged five wars against African states with the intent of destroying their military might and political independence and unifying southern Africa under imperial control. This is the first work to tell the story of this cluster of conflicts as a single whole and to narrate the experiences of the militarily outmatched African societies. Deftly fusing the widely differing European and African perspectives on events, John Laband details the fateful decisions of individual leaders and generals and explores why many Africans chose to join the British and colonial forces. The Xhosa, Zulu, and other African military cultures are brought to vivid life, showing how varying notions of warrior honor and manliness influenced the outcomes for African fighting men and their societies.

Author : Stacey L. Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469607696

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Freedom's Frontier by Stacey L. Smith Pdf

Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Smith reveals that the state's anti-Chinese movement, forged in its struggle over unfree labor, reached eastward to transform federal Reconstruction policy and national race relations for decades to come. Throughout, she illuminates the startling ways in which the contest over slavery's fate included a western struggle that encompassed diverse labor systems and workers not easily classified as free or slave, black or white.

Author : John Grenier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1139444700

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The First Way of War by John Grenier Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph Norman Heard
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0810819317

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Handbook of the American Frontier: The southeastern woodlands by Joseph Norman Heard Pdf

A first reference that provides insights into both sides of Indian-white relations. Volume I covers events in the Southeastern Woodlands. Subsequent volumes will cover the Northeastern Woodlands, the Great Plains, and the Far West. Heard approaches h

Author : William R. Nester
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0811700771

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The Frontier War for American Independence by William R. Nester Pdf

The vicious war on the frontier significantly altered the course of the Revolution. Regular troops, volunteers, and Indians clashed in large-scale campaigns. Bloody fights for land, home, and family. Although the American Revolution is commonly associated with specific locations such as the heights above Boston or the frozen Delaware River, important events took place in the wooded, mountainous lands of the frontier.

Author : Celia López-Chávez
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806155227

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Epics of Empire and Frontier by Celia López-Chávez Pdf

First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearly a half-century later in 1610, Gaspar de Villagrá, Mexican-born captain under Juan de Oñate in New Mexico, published Historia de la Nueva México, a historical epic about the Spanish subjugation of the indigenous peoples of New Mexico. In Epics of Empire and Frontier—a deft cultural, ethnohistorical reading of these two colonial epics, both of which loom large in the canon of Spanish literature—Celia López-Chávez reveals new ways of thinking about the themes of empire and frontier. Employing historical and literary analysis that goes from the global to the regional, and from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, López-Chávez considers Ercilla and Villagrá not only as writers but as citizens and subjects of the powerful Spanish empire. Although frontiers of conquest have always been central to the regional histories of the Americas, this is the first work to approach the subject through epic poetry and the main events in the poets’ lives. López-Chávez also investigates the geographical spaces and landmarks where the conquests of Chile and New Mexico took place, the natural landscape of each area as both the Spanish and the natives saw it, and the characteristics of the expeditions in both regions, with special attention to the violence of the invasions. In her discussion of law, geography, and frontier, López-Chávez carries the poems’ firsthand testimony on the political, cultural, and social resistance of indigenous people into present-day debates about regional and national identity. An interdisciplinary, comparative postcolonial interpretation of the history found in two poetic narratives of conquest, Epics of Empire and Frontier brings fresh understanding to the role that poetry plays in regional and national memory and culture.

Author : Richard Blackmon
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0160925428

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The Creek War, 1813-1814 by Richard Blackmon Pdf

The Creek War grew out of a civil war that pitted Creek Indians striving to maintain their traditional culture, called Red Sticks, against those Creeks who sought to assimilate with United States society.

Author : Al J. Venter,Al J. Venter & Friends
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Angola
ISBN : 1911628739

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Combat by Al J. Venter,Al J. Venter & Friends Pdf

South Africa's Border War continues to attract a lot of attention, in part because it was one of the longest "colonial" wars in contemporary history that also saw a host of new weapons systems developed, both by Pretoria and by its enemies. In landmine warfare alone, some of the mine-protected vehicles which emerged from South African factories alm

Author : David J. Silbey
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0374707391

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A War of Frontier and Empire by David J. Silbey Pdf

It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David J. Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling history, the 1899 Philippine-American War was in fact all of these. Played out over three distinct conflicts—one fought between the Spanish and the allied United States and Filipino forces; one fought between the United States and the Philippine Army of Liberation; and one fought between occupying American troops and an insurgent alliance of often divided Filipinos—the war marked America's first steps as a global power and produced a wealth of lessons learned and forgotten. In A War of Frontier and Empire, Silbey traces the rise and fall of President Emilio Aguinaldo, as Aguinaldo tries to liberate the Philippines from colonial rule only to fail, devastatingly, before a relentless American army. He tracks President McKinley's decision to commit troops and fulfill a divinely inspired injunction to "uplift and civilize" despite the protests of many Americans. Most important, Silbey provides a clear lens to view the Philippines as, in the crucible of war, it transforms itself from a territory divided by race, ethnicity, and warring clans into a cohesive nation on the path to independence.

Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Black Hills War, 1876-1877
ISBN : NYPL:33433081749636

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Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier by Frances Fuller Victor Pdf

Author : Matthew J. Clavin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479837335

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The Battle of Negro Fort by Matthew J. Clavin Pdf

The dramatic story of the United States’ destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent community of fugitive slaves. The result was the Battle of Negro Fort, a brutal conflict among hundreds of American troops, Indian warriors, and black rebels that culminated in the death or re-enslavement of nearly all of the fort’s inhabitants. By eliminating this refuge for fugitive slaves, the United States government closed an escape valve that African Americans had utilized for generations. At the same time, it intensified the subjugation of southern Native Americans, including the Creeks, Choctaws, and Seminoles. Still, the battle was significant for another reason as well. During its existence, Negro Fort was a powerful symbol of black freedom that subverted the racist foundations of an expanding American slave society. Its destruction reinforced the nation’s growing commitment to slavery, while illuminating the extent to which ambivalence over the institution had disappeared since the nation’s founding. Indeed, four decades after declaring that all men were created equal, the United States destroyed a fugitive slave community in a foreign territory for the first and only time in its history, which accelerated America’s transformation into a white republic. The Battle of Negro Fort places the violent expansion of slavery where it belongs, at the center of the history of the early American republic.

Author : Charles E. Flandrau
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547141471

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The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier by Charles E. Flandrau Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier" by Charles E. Flandrau. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Carter Malkasian
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199973750

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War Comes to Garmser by Carter Malkasian Pdf

If you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and countryside that were on the frontline. These small places are the heart of the war. Modeled on the classic Vietnam War book, War Comes to Long An, Malkasian's War Comes to Garmser promises to be a landmark account of the war in Afghanistan. The author, who spent nearly two years in Garmser, a community in war-torn Helmand province, tells the story of this one small place through the jihad, the rise and fall of Taliban regimes, and American and British surge. Based on his conversations with hundreds of Afghans, including government officials, tribal leaders, religious leaders, and over forty Taliban, and drawing on extensive primary source material, Malkasian takes readers into the world of the Afghans. Through their feuds, grievances, beliefs, and way of life, Malkasian shows how the people of Garmser have struggled for three decades through brutal wars and short-lived regimes. Beginning with the victorious but destabilizing jihad against the Soviets and the ensuing civil war, he explains how the Taliban movement formed; how, after being routed in 2001, they returned stronger than ever in 2006; and how Afghans, British, and Americans fought with them thereafter. Above all, he describes the lives of Afghans who endured and tried to build some kind of order out of war. While Americans and British came and went, Afghans carried on, year after year. Afghanistan started out as the good war, the war we fought for the right reasons. Now for many it seems a futile military endeavor, costly and unwinnable. War Comes to Garmser offers a fresh, original perspective on this war, one that will redefine how we look at Afghanistan and at modern war in general.