The mexican war and its warriors : comprising a complete history of all the operations of the American armies in Mexic...

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Strong armies, slow adaptation: civil-military relations and diffusion of military power

Why are some states more willing to adopt military innovations than others? Why, for example, were the great powers of Europe able to successfully reform their military practices to better adapt to and participate in the so-called military revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries while their most important extra-European competitor, the Ottoman Empire, failed to do so? This puzzle is best explained by two factors: civil-military relations and historical timing. In the Ottoman Empire, the emergence of an institutionally strong and internally cohesive army during the early stages of state formation—in the late fourteenth century—equipped the military with substantial bargaining powers. In contrast, the great powers of Europe drew heavily on private providers of military power during the military revolution and developed similar armies only by the second half of the seventeenth century, limiting the bargaining leverage of European militaries over their rulers. In essence, the Ottoman standing army was able to block reform efforts that it believed challenged its parochial interests. Absent a similar institutional challenge, European rulers initiated military reforms and motivated officers and military entrepreneurs to participate in the ongoing military revolution.

Gordons under arms : a biographical muster roll of officers named Gordon in the navies and armies of Britain, Europe, America and in the Jacobite risings. By Constance Oliver Skelton and John Malcolm Bulloch.

Mode of access: Internet.

Minty and the cavalry. A history of cavalry campaigns in the western armies.

Includes rosters of officers of the 4th Mich., 7th Pa., 4th U.S. and 9th Pa. cavalry. A dozen or more other regiments were, at one time or another attached to the brigade.

The armies of the first French Republic and the rise of the marshals of Napoleon I ...

Preface signed: Charles F. Phipps.

Organization; how armies are formed for war,

The organization which it is the purport of this work to describe is that of armies in war ... --Introd.

At the front with three armies, my adventures in the great war.

Partly reprinted from The Daily telegraph, London. The New York American, The Metropolitan magazine and other periodicals.

Twelve years' military adventure in three quarters of the globe; or, Memoirs of an officer who served in the armies of His Majesty and of the East India Company, between the years 1802 and 1814, in which are contained the campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in India, and his last in Spain and the south of France.

Mode of access: Internet.

The victories of Wellington and the British armies.

Mode of access: Internet.

Private diary of travels, personal services, and public events, during mission and employment with the European armies in the campaigns of 1812, 1813, 1814. From the invasion of Russia to the capture of Paris.

Mode of access: Internet.

Narrative of the most remarkable events which occurred in and near Leipzig, immediately before, during, and subsequent to, the sanguinary series of engagements between the allied armies and the French, from the 14th to the 19th October, 1813. Illustrated with military maps, exhibiting the movements of the respective armies.

[Miscellaneous pamphlets, v. 338, no. 4]

Memoir of the operations of the allied armies, under Prince Schwarzenberg, and Marshal Blucher, during the latter end of 1813, and the year 1814,

Mode of access: Internet.