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In the aftermath of the Civil War, the US Army was confronted with the complex task of occupying and reconstructing the South. It was a unique situation with no precedents. Officers and soldiers lacked the training to cope with mixed attitudes of disdain, contrariness, and malevolance.

This text provides a review of the main events in the wars preceding the Revolution in which France, England, and Spain struggled for dominance.

A look at the times and people of a new democratic government challenged with survival by pirates, wars with England and Mexico, and governing new lands.

The most important conflicts in the founding of the English colonies and the American republic were fought against enemies either totally outside of their society or within it: barbarians or brothers. In this work, the author presents a searching exploration of early modern English and American warfare, looking at the sixteenth-century wars in Ireland, the English Civil War, the colonial Anglo-Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the American...