The American Military Frontiers : The United States Army in the West, 1783-1900 /

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As the fledgling nation looked west to the land beyond the Appalachian Mountains, it turned to the army to advance and defend its national interests. Clashing with Spain, Britain, France, Mexico, the Confederacy, and Indians in this pursuit of expansion, the army's failures and successes altern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wooster, Robert, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Army.
États-Unis. > Army > Histoire > 19e siecle.
United States. > Army > Military life > History > 19th century.
United States. > Army > History > 19th century.
Territorial expansion.
Armed Forces > Military life.
Frontier and pioneer life.
HISTORY > Military > Pictorial.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
West United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale > Histoire > 19e siecle.
United States > Territorial expansion > History > 19th century.
West (U.S.) > History, Military > 19th century.
Military history.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Defeat and victory in the Ohio Valley
  • Sword of the nation
  • Sharpening the nation's sword
  • Asserting national sovereignty
  • The wars of Indian removal
  • Agent of manifest destiny
  • Constabularies in blue
  • Frontier regulars and the collapse of the Union
  • Civil wars in the borderlands
  • The regulars return
  • Testing the peace policy
  • Conquest of a continent
  • Epilogue : the long frontier.

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