An edition of Jackson's sword
(2012)
Jackson's sword
the Army officer corps on the American frontier, 1810-1821
by Samuel J. Watson
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United States, Civil-military relations, Military leadership, Territorial expansion, Military History, United States. Army, Officers, History, United states, army, officers, United states, army, history, United states, history, military, United states, territorial expansion, Jackson, andrew, 1767-1845People
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)Places
United States, Southern StatesTimes
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Jackson's sword: the Army officer corps on the American frontier, 1810-1821
2012, University Press of Kansas
in English
0700618848 9780700618842
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Table of Contents
Introduction : the soldier and the nineteenth-century American state : insulation, autonomy, and agency
Confidence, belligerence, and insubordination : Army operations along the Texan and maritime frontiers of Louisiana, 1810-1814
The Army asserts American hegemony on the Florida frontier : from the Creek War to the destruction of the Negro Fort, 1813-1816
The tensions of aggression and accountability : military expansionism in the Gulf borderlands, 1815-1817
Concluding the quasi-war with Spain : civil-military tensions, the occupation of Amelia Island, and the "First Seminole War," 1817-1818
Jackson and Gaines get their way : civil-military friction over the invasion of Florida, Indian relations, and filibustering against Texas, 1817-1821
Assessing national military expansion on the western frontier to 1825 : political and diplomatic ebb and flow in Army operations on the Plains
The growth of professional accountability during the 1820s and 1830s : contexts, policies, and causation-domestic and international
Conclusion : the soldier and the Jacksonian state: the Military Academy, Army missions, and political acceptance in an age of democratization.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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