A Brittle Sword : The Kentucky Militia, 1776-1912 /

As an outpost of the advancing frontier, Kentucky played a crucial military role. Kentucky's state militia, which, under federal law, enrolled every able-bodied male citizen aged eighteen to forty-five, helped to secure the West for white settlers during the bloody Indian wars. Its members suff...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stone, Richard G., 1937- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Militia.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Kentucky.
Kentucky > Histoire militaire.
Kentucky > Milice > Histoire.
Kentucky > History, Military.
Kentucky > Militia > History.
Military history.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:As an outpost of the advancing frontier, Kentucky played a crucial military role. Kentucky's state militia, which, under federal law, enrolled every able-bodied male citizen aged eighteen to forty-five, helped to secure the West for white settlers during the bloody Indian wars. Its members suffered defeat, capture, and death in the War of 1812, but also contributed to victories in the battles of the Thames and New Orleans. Though some Kentucky volunteers campaigned in the Mexican-American War, the general militia was moribund by the middle of the nineteenth century. Its infrequent musters had.
Physical Description:1 online resource (138 pages): illustrations, maps (on lining papers)
ISBN:9780813150253

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