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Book Soldiers in King Philip s War

Download or read book Soldiers in King Philip s War written by George Madison Bodge and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Rabble in Arms

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  • Author : Kyle F. Zelner
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2010-11
  • ISBN : 0814797342
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book A Rabble in Arms written by Kyle F. Zelner and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it lasted only sixteen months, King Philip’s War (1675-1676) was arguably one of the most significant of the colonial wars that wracked early America. As the first major military crisis to directly strike one of the Empire’s most important possessions: the Massachusetts Bay Colony, King Philip’s War marked the first time that Massachusetts had to mobilize mass numbers of ordinary, local men to fight. In this exhaustive social history and community study of Essex County, Massachusetts’s militia, Kyle F. Zelner boldly challenges traditional interpretations of who was called to serve during this period. Drawing on muster and pay lists as well as countless historical records, Zelner demonstrates that Essex County’s more upstanding citizens were often spared from impressments, while the “rabble” — criminals, drunkards, the poor— were forced to join active fighting units, with town militia committees selecting soldiers who would be least missed should they die in action. Enhanced by illustrations and maps, A Rabble in Arms shows that, despite heroic illusions of a universal military obligation, town fathers, to damaging effects, often placed local and personal interests above colonial military concerns.

Book Soldiers in King Philip s War

Download or read book Soldiers in King Philip s War written by George Madison Bodge and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book King Philip s War  The History and Legacy of America s Forgotten Conflict

Download or read book King Philip s War The History and Legacy of America s Forgotten Conflict written by Eric B. Schultz and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Philip's War--one of America's first and costliest wars--began in 1675 as an Indian raid on several farms in Plymouth Colony, but quickly escalated into a full-scale war engulfing all of southern New England. At once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip's War expands our understanding of American history and provides insight into the nature of colonial and ethnic wars in general. Through a careful reconstruction of events, first-person accounts, period illustrations, and maps, and by providing information on the exact locations of more than fifty battles, King Philip's War is useful as well as informative. Students of history, colonial war buffs, those interested in Native American history, and anyone who is curious about how this war affected a particular New England town, will find important insights into one of the most seminal events to shape the American mind and continent.

Book The Name of War

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  • Author : Jill Lepore
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2009-09-23
  • ISBN : 0307488578
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book The Name of War written by Jill Lepore and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war." The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages. But Jill Lepore makes clear that it was after the war—and because of it—that the boundaries between cultures, hitherto blurred, turned into rigid ones. King Philip's War became one of the most written-about wars in our history, and Lepore argues that the words strengthened and hardened feelings that, in turn, strengthened and hardened the enmity between Indigenous peoples and Anglos. Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves.

Book Soldiers in King Philip s War

Download or read book Soldiers in King Philip s War written by George Madison Bodge and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1967 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive study of the Indian war of New England known as "King Philip's War" (1675-1677), with muster and payrolls of colonial soldiers, both regular and militia, and biographical and genealogical sketches integrated throughout the narrative. Also included are lists of grantees and claimants of the Narragansett townships of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. The work as a whole is ably researched, intelligently written, well illustrated, and fully indexed, the index of persons alone bearing more than 5,000 references.

Book The History of Philip s War

Download or read book The History of Philip s War written by Benjamin Church and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rustic Warriors

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  • Author : Steven Eames
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2011-11
  • ISBN : 0814722709
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Rustic Warriors written by Steven Eames and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Steven Eames has crafted an insightful and much needed examination of colonial warfare on the northern frontier. His analysis of the effectiveness of the New England militia provides a long overdue corrective to stereotypes of their incompetence."---Emerson W. Baker author of The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England --

Book The Story of the Thirteen Colonies

Download or read book The Story of the Thirteen Colonies written by H. A. Guerber and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a history book of the original Thirteen Colonies of the United States. They were originally a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America, who fought the American Revolutionary War and formed the United States of America by declaring full independence. Just prior to declaring independence, the Thirteen Colonies in their traditional groupings were: New England (New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut); Middle (New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware); Southern (Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; and Georgia).

Book The Fatal Land

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  • Author : Matthew P. Dziennik
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015-06-28
  • ISBN : 0300213506
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book The Fatal Land written by Matthew P. Dziennik and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain’s colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests and, in doing so, transformed the most maligned region of the British Isles into an important center of the British Empire.

Book Virginia s Colonial Soldiers

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  • Author : Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck
  • Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780806312194
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Virginia s Colonial Soldiers written by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1988 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an authoritative register of Virginia's colonial soldiers, drawing on county court minutes, bounty land applications, records of courts martial, county militia rosters, and public records in England. Detailed information on soldiers' names, ranks, pay, places of birth, and appearance is divided into sections on different sources and different conflicts, including King George's War, the French and Indian War, and Dunmore's War. Useful for genealogists and historians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The History of the Great Indian War of 1675 and 1676  Commonly Called Philip s War

Download or read book The History of the Great Indian War of 1675 and 1676 Commonly Called Philip s War written by Benjamin Church and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facsimile edition of a work orginally published at Hartford in 1861.

Book Soldiers of Empire

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  • Author : Tarak Barkawi
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-06-08
  • ISBN : 1107169585
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Soldiers of Empire written by Tarak Barkawi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.

Book Soldiers in King Philip s War  Containing Lists of the Soldiers of Massachusetts Colony  Who Served in the Indian War Of 1675 1677

Download or read book Soldiers in King Philip s War Containing Lists of the Soldiers of Massachusetts Colony Who Served in the Indian War Of 1675 1677 written by George Madison Bodge and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldiers in King Philip's war. Containing lists of the soldiers of Massachusetts Colony, who served in the Indian war of 1675-1677. With sketches of the principal officers, and copies of ancient documents and records relating to the war.

Book The Skulking Way of War

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  • Author : Patrick M. Malone
  • Publisher : Madison Books
  • Release : 2000-10-18
  • ISBN : 1461662842
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book The Skulking Way of War written by Patrick M. Malone and published by Madison Books. This book was released on 2000-10-18 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the brutal and destructive King Philip's War, the New England Indians combined new European weaponry with their traditional use of stealth, surprise, and mobility.

Book Redcoats

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  • Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2012-08-19
  • ISBN : 1781599866
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Redcoats written by Philip Haythornthwaite and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-19 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was a British soldiers life like during the Napoleonic Wars? How was he recruited and trained? How did he live on home service and during service abroad? And what was his experience of battle? In this landmark book Philip Haythornthwaite traces the career of a British soldier from enlistment, through the key stages of his path through the military system, including combat, all the way to his eventual discharge. His fascinating account shows how varied the recruits of the day were, from urban dwellers and weavers to plowboys and laborers, and they came from all regions of the British Isles including Ireland and Scotland. Some of them may have justified the Duke of Wellingtons famous description of them as the scum of the earth. Yet these common soldiers were capable of extraordinary feats on campaign and on the battlefield that eventually turned the course of the war against Napoleon.