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Author : Jane Brewer Besant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89085926251
Author : Clifford Walton
Publisher : London, Harrison & sons
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015003470013
Author : CLIFFORD. WALTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033281778
Author : Sir John Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1782
Category : Standing army
ISBN : BL:A0019948065
Author : John R. Western
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015019369035
A study in English politics and local government and how the militia was molded by those same politics. The study is taken after the Restoration and before the main conflict with Napoleon Bonaparte.
Author : Clifford Walton
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297514270
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Author : Clifford Walton
Publisher : London, Harrison & sons
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024201030
Author : Christopher L. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317024606
Despite its failure to unseat King James II, the Monmouth Rebellion had a profound influence upon English politics. In particular, it reignited the debate about whether the country should rely on a professional army under direct royal control or local country militias made up of part-time soldiers. King James favoured the former, and used criticism of the militia’s performance during the rebellion to support his argument. Contemporary commentators and historians alike all certainly seemed to agree that the king’s victory was won in spite of - not because of - the militia. But is this a fair judgement? Drawing upon a wealth of information gathered from personal accounts, private papers, letters, financial records, diaries and memoirs, this book revisits the events of 1685 to assess the militia’s performance in helping to defeat the so-called ’pitchfork rebellion’. Through an extensive investigation into the militia itself, its social composition, role, training, armament and leadership the study sets a benchmark for what could have been realistically expected of these part-time soldiers, and then sets this against the actual tasks that were asked of it in 1685. The results that emerge from this exercise paint a very different picture of the militia’s role in the rebellion than has hitherto been accepted by historians. Judged by these criteria, a convincing case is made that the militia was in fact an efficient military organisation according to contemporary expectations and demands made of it. Criticisms of it, it is argued, stem more from political expediency than impartial judgment. As well as being of interest to military and social historians, this book demonstrates the dangers to all historians of taking at face value contemporary comments. It shows how subtle and interlocking forces, that may at first glance appear unrelated, can work together to colour opinions of events and organisations.
Author : David H. Wollman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : WISC:89089011175
Author : Michael J. Braddick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521789559
This book examines the development of the English state during the long seventeenth century, emphasising the impersonal forces which shape the uses of political power, rather than the purposeful actions of individuals or groups. It is a study of state formation rather than of state building. The author's approach does not however rule out the possibility of discerning patterns in the development of the state, and a coherent account emerges which offers some alternative answers to relatively well-established questions. In particular, it is argued that the development of the state in this period was shaped in important ways by social interests - particularly those of class, gender and age. It is also argued that this period saw significant changes in the form and functioning of the state which were, in some sense, modernising. The book therefore offers a narrative of the development of the state in the aftermath of revisionism.
Author : J. R. Western
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003816164
First published in 1965, The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century directs light on English politics and government, through studying the militia, from the Restoration to the days of the younger Pritt. The militia occupied a significant place both in the quarrels between king and parliament in the later seventeenth century and in the struggle for power between the elder Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle. Raised and officered by the county and parish authorities, its maintenance constantly posed the problem of how to harness the machinery of local government to national purposes. The gentry had to be induced to help and the militia, like other institutions national and local, was shaped by the fashion and extent to which they responded. The book will be of interest to students of history, political science, and literature.
Author : Roger B. Manning
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199261499
Based upon a wide range of historical and literary sources, An Apprenticeship in Arms is a scholarly study of the military experiences of peers and gentlemen from the British Isles who volunteered to fight in the religious and dynastic wars of mainland Europe, as well as the ordinary men who were impressed to serve in the ranks from the time of the English intervention in the Dutch war of independence in 1585 to the death of the soldier-king William III in 1702. Thisapprenticeship in arms exposed these men to the technological innovations of the military revolution, laid the foundations for a fledgling professional officer class based upon merit and established a fund of military expertise. This remilitarization of aristocratic culture and society was completed by 1640, andprovided numerous experienced military officers for the various armies of the civil wars and, subsequently, for the embryonic British army after William III invaded and conquered the British Isles and committed the Three Kingdoms to the armed struggle against Louis XIV during the Nine Years War.Conflicts between amateur aristocrats and so-called 'soldiers of fortune' led to continuing debates about the relative merits of standing armies and a select militia; the individual pursuit of honour and glory by such amateurs also obscured the more rational military and political objectives of the modern state, subverted military discipline, and delayed the process of the professionalization of the officer corps of the British army.
Author : Hannah Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198851998
Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660 -1750 argues that armies had a profound impact on the major political events of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain. Beginning with the controversial creation of a permanent army to protect the restored Stuart monarchy, this original and important study examines how armies defended or destroyed regimes during the Exclusion Crisis, Monmouth's Rebellion, the Revolution of 1688-1689, and the Jacobite rebellions and plots of the post-1714 period, including the '15 and '45. Hannah Smith explores the political ideas of 'common soldiers' and army officers and analyses their political engagements in a divisive, partisan world. The threat or hope of military intervention into politics preoccupied the era. Would a monarch employ the army to circumvent parliament and annihilate Protestantism? Might the army determine the succession to the throne? Could an ambitious general use armed force to achieve supreme political power? These questions troubled successive generations of men and women as the British army developed into a lasting and costly component of the state, and emerged as a highly successful fighting force during the War of the Spanish Succession. Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660 - 1750 deploys an innovative periodization to explore significant continuities and developments across the reigns of seven monarchs spanning almost a century. Using a vivid and extensive array of archival, literary, and artistic material, the volume presents a striking new perspective on the political and military history of Britain.
Author : John Childs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134528592
First published in 2006. This study looks at the first standing army in England during time of peace was that of Charles II until its dissolving. Since the earliest times kings of England had raised temporary armies in time of war, but the concept of a force which was not disbanded on the conclusion of hostilities was a radical departure.
Author : Lois G. Schwoerer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421432205
Originally published in 1974. In her study of primary materials in England and the United States, Schwoerer traces the origin, development, and articulation in both Parliament and in the popular press of the attitude opposing standing armies in seventeenth-century England and the American colonies. Central to the criticism of armies at that time was the conviction that ultimate military power should be vested in Parliament, not the Crown. Schwoerer shows how the many diverse elements of England's antimilitarism, including political principle, propaganda, parliamentary tactics, parochialism, and partisanship, hardened with every confrontation between the Crown or Protector and Parliament. The author finds a general predisposition to distrust professional soldiers early in the century, and from the 1620s onward she notes opposition to a standing army in times of peace. Highlighting the growth of the antimilitary tradition, Schwoerer traces the development of this attitude from the Petition of Right in 1628 to the 1641–1642 crisis over the Militia Bill/Ordinance, the military settlements of 1660 and 1689, and the climactic events of 1667–1699. Schwoerer shows how the anti-standing-army ideology affected the constitutional thinking of the American colonists and manifested itself in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. She addresses timeless questions of how to provide for a nation's defense while preserving individual liberty, citizen responsibility for military service, and the relationship of executive and legislative authority over the army.
