Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Bowes and Bowes, firm, booksellers, Cambridge, England
Publisher:
Total Pages: 828
Release: 1931
Genre:
ISBN:

Military Experience in the Age of Reason

Military Experience in the Age of Reason
Author: Christopher Duffy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2005-12-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135794588

First published in 1987. War in the 18th century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. Christopher Duffy's investigates the brutalities of the battlefield and also traces the lives of the officer to the soldier from the formative conditions of their earliest years to their violent deaths or retirement, and shows that, below their well-ordered exteriors, the armies of the Age of Reason underwent a revolutionary change from medieval to modern structures and ways of thinking.

History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution

History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
Author: Mercy Otis Warren
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Mercy Otis Warren has been described as perhaps the most formidable female intellectual in eighteenth-century America. This work (in the first new edition since 1805) is an exciting and comprehensive study of the events of the American Revolution, from the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765 through the ratification of the Constitution in 1788-1789. Steeped in the classical, republican tradition, Warren was a strong proponent of the American Revolution. She was also suspicious of the newly emerging commercial republic of the 1780s and hostile to the Constitution from an Anti-Federalist perspective, a position that gave her history some notoriety.