Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution

1984 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 1387
Author(s):  
John Pancake ◽  
Ronald Hoffman ◽  
Peter J. Albert
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
The Military

Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution: An Annotated Edition of the Military Journal of Jeremiah Greenman

1979 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
George A. Billias ◽  
Robert Bray ◽  
Paul Bushnell ◽  
Jeremiah Greenman
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Annotated Edition ◽  
The Military

Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution.

1985 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
John Morgan Dederer ◽  
Ronald Hoffman ◽  
Peter J. Albert
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
The Military

Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution.

1985 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
James H. Edmondson ◽  
Ronald Hoffman ◽  
Peter J. Albert
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
The Military

Military aspects of the Two Revolutions

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (x) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Theodore Caplow
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
The Military ◽  
The French Revolution

In this paper, I consider the military phase of the French Revolution as running from 1789 to 1795. The adoption of the Constitution of the Year III in October 1795 is taken to mark the end of the revolutionary era. Likewise, the military phase of the American Revolution is taken to extend from 1775 10 1781; there were no important hostilities after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.

The Early Achievement of Modern Stature in America

1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth L. Sokoloff ◽  
Georgia C. Villaflor
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Hair Color ◽  
French And Indian War ◽  
Standard Format ◽  
Eye Color ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
Indian War ◽  
Military Rank ◽  
The Military

The military records used in this article, referred to as muster rolls or descriptive lists, are predominantly from the years of the French and Indian War (1756–1763) and the American Revolution (1775–1783), and pertain to the soldiers of the American Colonies. Such lists were compiled for most colonial military forces, typically by individual companies or regiments, and provided the basis for distributing supplies and payments, as well as for aiding in the identification of deserters. Since there was no standard format, the information appearing in the muster rolls varies widely. Lists have been retrieved that included for each soldier some, but never all, of the following information: place of birth, age, place of residence, occupation, height, hair color, eye color, complexion, place and date of enlistment, military rank, by whom enlisted, language spoken, term of service, pay scale, and assorted remarks relevant to military service. We have also colected a sample of U.S. Army muster rolls for those recruits who enlisted during the period 1815–1820. These lists are of a similar lature to those of the earlier era, except that they are much more uniform with regard to the information included. Very few individuals under the age of 16 enlisted in the military, making it difficult to utilize these data for studying adolescent growth spurts. Accordingly, the analysis of the height-by-age data in this article will focus on the terminal heights achieved.

Some Attempts at Imperial Co-Operation During the Reign of Queen Anne

1927 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 171-194
Author(s):  
W. T. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Paper Money ◽  
Fundamental Causes ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
Sea Power ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Military

Recent historical investigations tend to push the fundamental causes of the American Revolution farther and farther back into the eighteenth century. It is, therefore, passing strange that the significance of the Canadian expeditions of the first decade of that century should have been neglected. These projects played an important rôle in bringing about a friendly co-operation between the continental colonies and the mother-country; they were no unimportant part of the military and naval phases of the war of the Spanish Succession; and they raised in a pointed way the whole question of sea power. In addition, the expeditions were used as pawns by the English in the diplomatic game, which eventually culminated in the treaty of Utrecht; they showed in a clear way the entire problem of imperial defence, as well as some of the tendencies in British and French imperialism in the early eighteenth century. Furthermore, such attempts at co-operation between colonists and mother-country revealed the superlative importance attached to colonial commerce by each of them, and helped create that most vexatious question of colonial paper money. Such a joint expedition against the French in North America was not only a contest between Whigs and Tories in England, but it finally became a struggle between the two great Tory rivals of the reign of Queen Anne.

scholarly journals The America Economic Crisis Of 2009/2010: Three Pillars Of American Strength That Will Lead To Recovery

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Provitera ◽  
Michael P. Lambert ◽  
Maggie F. Neira
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Natural Right ◽  
The People ◽  
Civil Order ◽  
The Military ◽  
Negative Connotation

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The notion of the Fall of the American Empire (Wojtowicz, 1993) is equivalent to the Peter Principal in that positive realization will always prevail over the negative perspective. Wojtowicz (1993) contends that Isaac Asimov wrote his foundation stories to show that every empire, even the most powerful one, has to fall eventually. Lawrence Peter (1984), an educator and hierarchiologist, argued that each manager will rise to the level in which he or she will fail. <span style="color: black;">Inevitably</span>, the Peter Principal failed because it placed a negative connotation on managerial growth. The same thing holds true with the Failure of the American Empire. America cannot fail because while there are many foundations of strength that has held America together since the American Revolution, there are three pillars that will help America continue to prosper. The three pillars are the strength of the military, the excellent education system, and the spirit of democracy that has led to capitalism. The spirit of democracy as Abraham Lincoln exemplifies as &ldquo;A government of people, by the people, for the people,&rdquo; has kept America vibrant and open for people to rise to the highest office in the free world (Powell and Powell, 1918). In the philosophical Age of Enlightenment, John Locke, a puritan in the England of Cromwell, put forth a new civil order: law based on reason, a government deriving its power from the governed, liberty to pursue individual goals as a natural right, and private property and its use in the pursuit of happiness (Wren and Bedian, 2009). These four ideas provide the bases of how our founders designed the America of today. This paper provides an overview of the three pillars that will influence the economic recovery of America in a positive way.</span></span></p>

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