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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the
World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important
historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come
from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject
produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a
discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the
subject. From analyses of the varied geography that encompasses the
Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the
book was made in an effort to preserve the work of previous
generations.
General Nathanael Greene commanded the Southern army during the
Revolutionary War, and after a series of successful battles, forced
the British to retreat. After the Battle of Eutaw Springs, he
caused the British evacuation of Charleston. This well-rounde
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THE MILITARY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES
REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THE MILITAEY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES BY
FRANCIS VINTON GREENE sStewwssu rfW GRADUATE OF THE TJ. S. MILITARY
ACADEMY MAJOR-GENERAL OF VOLUNTEERS IN THE WAR WITH BPAIN AUTHOR OF
The Russian Army and Its Campaigns in Turkey in 1877-78 1879. Army
Life in Russia 1880. Improvements in the Art of War 1882. The
Mississippi Campaigns of the Civil War 1883. General Greene Great
Commanders Series 1885. The United States Army 1901 NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1911 TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN THOSE NOW
LIVING AND THOSE WHO HAVJS GONE BEFORE OF . THE UNITED STATES ARMY
WHO HAVE CARRIED ITS COLORS TO VICTORY ON MANY FIELDS AND IN MANY
CLIMES HAVE COMPELLED THE SURRENDER OF ITS AHMED FOES AT SARATOGA
AND YORKTOWN VERA CRUZ AND THE CITY OF MEXICO DQNELSON, VICKSBURG,
APPOMATTOX AND DURHAMS STATION SANTIAGO AND MANILA AND WHO IN THE
INTERVENING YEARS OF PEACE HAVE STTBDUED THE SAVAGE EXPLORED THE
WILDERNESS PREPARED THE GREAT WEST FOR THE TEEMING MILLIONS WHO NOW
INHABIT IT CONTRIBUTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ABATED THE
TROPICAL PESTILENCE DIRECTED THE NATIONS PUBLIC WORKS CONSTRUCTED
THE PANAMA CANAL THIS BOOK IS WITH PROFOUND ADMIRATION AND
WARM-HEARTED AFFECTION RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED PREFACE THE purpose
of the book of which this is the first volume is to present, within
the limited space of three small volumes, the essential facts in
our military history, and to make such analyses of these facts and
such comments upon them as may be useful for the future and
interesting for the present. The army has always been a factor of
prime importance in our national life. It was due to the skill of
Washington atTrenton and Yorktown, and the fortitude of his
officers and men at Valley Forge and elsewhere during eight long
years, that the labors of Samuel and John Adams, Patrick Henry and
Thomas Jefferson did not prove fruitless, and that the Declaration
of Independence became an immortal docu ment instead of passing
into the waste-basket of forgotten revolutionary pronunciamentos.
The success of Scott on the Niagara frontier in aid of the
wonderful victories of the navy in the second war with Great
Britain compelled the British to relinquish their control over our
commerce through the right of search and acknowledge our rightful
lines of frontier. The territorial expansion on the Gulf and the
Pacific would have been impossible if the armies of Scott and
Taylor had failed. The Union would have been disrupted and slavery
perpetuated, in spite of the eloquence of Webster and Phil lips and
Sumner and the consummate genius of Lincoln, if Grant and Sherman
had not understood the art of war. Finally, it was not alone the
unanimous resolution of Congress that made Cuba free and
incidentally brought us Porto Rico and the Philippines, a
commanding position in the Orient and the recognition of our
greatness as a world power, but vii Vlll PREFACE also the skill,
valor and endurance of the officers and men, ashore and afloat, who
carried our arms to victory on both sides of the globe in a few
short months of 1898. From the beginning, one hundred and
thirty-six years ago, the army has been the willing and faithful
subordinate of the civil power, and the indispensable instrument
for carrying into effect the will of the people as expressed by
their chosen representatives. In recent wars it has become
anefficient in strument for that purpose. In 1812-15 we paid the
deserved penalty, at Detroit and Sacketts Harbor, Bladensburg and
Washington, of twelve years deliberate neglect of the military
service, due to the popular belief that a well-trained army was not
a necessary factor in our scheme of government. It is not likely
that we shall again make that mistake...
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THE MILITARY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES
REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THE MILITAEY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES BY
FRANCIS VINTON GREENE sStewwssu rfW GRADUATE OF THE TJ. S. MILITARY
ACADEMY MAJOR-GENERAL OF VOLUNTEERS IN THE WAR WITH BPAIN AUTHOR OF
The Russian Army and Its Campaigns in Turkey in 1877-78 1879. Army
Life in Russia 1880. Improvements in the Art of War 1882. The
Mississippi Campaigns of the Civil War 1883. General Greene Great
Commanders Series 1885. The United States Army 1901 NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1911 TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN THOSE NOW
LIVING AND THOSE WHO HAVJS GONE BEFORE OF . THE UNITED STATES ARMY
WHO HAVE CARRIED ITS COLORS TO VICTORY ON MANY FIELDS AND IN MANY
CLIMES HAVE COMPELLED THE SURRENDER OF ITS AHMED FOES AT SARATOGA
AND YORKTOWN VERA CRUZ AND THE CITY OF MEXICO DQNELSON, VICKSBURG,
APPOMATTOX AND DURHAMS STATION SANTIAGO AND MANILA AND WHO IN THE
INTERVENING YEARS OF PEACE HAVE STTBDUED THE SAVAGE EXPLORED THE
WILDERNESS PREPARED THE GREAT WEST FOR THE TEEMING MILLIONS WHO NOW
INHABIT IT CONTRIBUTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ABATED THE
TROPICAL PESTILENCE DIRECTED THE NATIONS PUBLIC WORKS CONSTRUCTED
THE PANAMA CANAL THIS BOOK IS WITH PROFOUND ADMIRATION AND
WARM-HEARTED AFFECTION RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED PREFACE THE purpose
of the book of which this is the first volume is to present, within
the limited space of three small volumes, the essential facts in
our military history, and to make such analyses of these facts and
such comments upon them as may be useful for the future and
interesting for the present. The army has always been a factor of
prime importance in our national life. It was due to the skill of
Washington atTrenton and Yorktown, and the fortitude of his
officers and men at Valley Forge and elsewhere during eight long
years, that the labors of Samuel and John Adams, Patrick Henry and
Thomas Jefferson did not prove fruitless, and that the Declaration
of Independence became an immortal docu ment instead of passing
into the waste-basket of forgotten revolutionary pronunciamentos.
The success of Scott on the Niagara frontier in aid of the
wonderful victories of the navy in the second war with Great
Britain compelled the British to relinquish their control over our
commerce through the right of search and acknowledge our rightful
lines of frontier. The territorial expansion on the Gulf and the
Pacific would have been impossible if the armies of Scott and
Taylor had failed. The Union would have been disrupted and slavery
perpetuated, in spite of the eloquence of Webster and Phil lips and
Sumner and the consummate genius of Lincoln, if Grant and Sherman
had not understood the art of war. Finally, it was not alone the
unanimous resolution of Congress that made Cuba free and
incidentally brought us Porto Rico and the Philippines, a
commanding position in the Orient and the recognition of our
greatness as a world power, but vii Vlll PREFACE also the skill,
valor and endurance of the officers and men, ashore and afloat, who
carried our arms to victory on both sides of the globe in a few
short months of 1898. From the beginning, one hundred and
thirty-six years ago, the army has been the willing and faithful
subordinate of the civil power, and the indispensable instrument
for carrying into effect the will of the people as expressed by
their chosen representatives. In recent wars it has become
anefficient in strument for that purpose. In 1812-15 we paid the
deserved penalty, at Detroit and Sacketts Harbor, Bladensburg and
Washington, of twelve years deliberate neglect of the military
service, due to the popular belief that a well-trained army was not
a necessary factor in our scheme of government. It is not likely
that we shall again make that mistake...
This is volume eight of the sixteen-volume series about the Army
and the Navy in the Civil War.
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