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Mary Cassatt: Mary Cassatt Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker.She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.

Mary Cassatt: Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" (the three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot.In 1879, Diego Martelli compared her to Degas, as they both sought to depict movement, light, and design in the most modern sense.

Mary Cassatt: Cassatt was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which is now part of Pittsburgh.She was born into an upper-middle-class family: Her father, Robert Simpson Cassat (later Cassatt), was a successful stockbroker and land speculator.He was descended from French Huguenot Jacques Cossart, who came to New Amsterdam in 1662.

Mary Cassatt: Her mother, Katherine Kelso Johnston, came from a banking family.Katherine Cassatt, educated and well-read, had a profound influence on her daughter.To that effect, Cassatt's lifelong friend Louisine Havemeyer wrote in her memoirs: "Anyone who had the privilege of knowing Mary Cassatt's mother would know at once that it was from her and her alone that [Mary] inherited her ability."

Mary Cassatt: The ancestral name had been Cossart.A distant cousin of artist Robert Henri, Cassatt was one of seven children, of whom two died in infancy.One brother, Alexander Johnston Cassatt, later became president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Mary Cassatt: The family moved eastward, first to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, then to the Philadelphia area, where she started her schooling at the age of six.Cassatt grew up in an environment that viewed travel as integral to education; she spent five years in Europe and visited many of the capitals, including London, Paris, and Berlin.While abroad she learned German and French and had her first lessons in drawing and music.

Mary Cassatt: It is likely that her first exposure to French artists Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, Camille Corot, and Gustave Courbet was at the Paris World's Fair of 1855.Also in the exhibition were Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro, both of whom were later her colleagues and mentors.Though her family objected to her becoming a professional artist, Cassatt began studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia at the early age of 15.

Mary Cassatt: Part of her parents' concern may have been Cassatt's exposure to feminist ideas and the bohemian behavior of some of the male students.As such, Cassatt and her network of friends were lifelong advocates of equal rights for the sexes.Although about 20% of the students were female, most viewed art as a socially valuable skill; few of them were determined, as Cassatt was, to make art their career.

Mary Cassatt: She continued her studies from 1861 through 1865, the duration of the American Civil War.Thomas Eakins was among her fellow students; later Eakins was forced to resign as director of the Academy.Impatient with the slow pace of instruction and the patronizing attitude of the male students and teachers, she decided to study the old masters on her own.

Mary Cassatt: She later said: "There was no teaching" at the Academy.Female students could not use live models, until somewhat later, and the principal training was primarily drawing from casts.Cassatt decided to end her studies: At that time, no degree was granted.

Mary Cassatt: After overcoming her father's objections, she moved to Paris in 1866, with her mother and family friends acting as chaperones.Since women could not yet attend the École des Beaux-Arts, Cassatt applied to study privately with masters from the school and was accepted to study with Jean-Léon Gérôme, a highly regarded teacher known for his hyper-realistic technique and his depiction of exotic subjects.(A few months later Gérôme also accepted Eakins as a student.)

Mary Cassatt: Cassatt augmented her artistic training with daily copying in the Louvre, obtaining the required permit, which was necessary to control the "copyists", usually low-paid women, who daily filled the museum to paint copies for sale.The museum also served as a social place for Frenchmen and American female students, who, like Cassatt, were not allowed to attend cafes where the avant-garde socialized.In this manner, fellow artist and friend Elizabeth Jane Gardner met and married famed academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Mary Cassatt: Toward the end of 1866, she joined a painting class taught by Charles Joshua Chaplin, a genre artist.In 1868, Cassatt also studied with artist Thomas Couture, whose subjects were mostly romantic and urban.On trips to the countryside, the students drew from life, particularly the peasants going about their daily activities.

Mary Cassatt: In 1868, one of her paintings, "A Mandoline Player", was accepted for the first time by the selection jury for the Paris Salon.With Elizabeth Jane Gardner, whose work was also accepted by the jury that year, Cassatt was one of two American women to first exhibit in the Salon."A Mandoline Player" is in the Romantic style of Corot and Couture, and is one of only two paintings from the first decade of her career that is documented today.

Mary Cassatt: The French art scene was in a process of change, as radical artists such as Courbet and Édouard Manet tried to break away from accepted Academic tradition and the Impressionists were in their formative years.Cassatt's friend Eliza Haldeman wrote home that artists "are leaving the Academy style and each seeking a new way, consequently just now everything is Chaos."Cassatt, on the other hand, continued to work in the traditional manner, submitting works to the Salon for over ten years, with increasing frustration.

Mary Cassatt: Returning to the United States in the late summer of 1870—as the Franco-Prussian War was starting—Cassatt lived with her family in Altoona.Her father continued to resist her chosen vocation, and paid for her basic needs, but not her art supplies.Cassatt placed two of her paintings in a New York gallery and found many admirers but no purchasers.

Mary Cassatt: She was also dismayed at the lack of paintings to study while staying at her summer residence.Cassatt even considered giving up art, as she was determined to make an independent living.She wrote in a letter of July 1871, "I have given up my studio & torn up my father's portrait, & have not touched a brush for six weeks nor ever will again until I see some prospect of getting back to Europe.

Mary Cassatt: I am very anxious to go out west next fall & get some employment, but I have not yet decided where."Cassatt traveled to Chicago to try her luck, but lost some of her early paintings in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.Shortly afterward, her work attracted the attention of Roman Catholic Bishop Michael Domenec of Pittsburgh, who commissioned her to paint two copies of paintings by Correggio in Parma, Italy, advancing her enough money to cover her travel expenses and part of her stay.

Mary Cassatt: In her excitement she wrote, "O how wild I am to get to work, my fingers farely itch & my eyes water to see a fine picture again".With Emily Sartain, a fellow artist from a well-regarded artistic family from Philadelphia, Cassatt set out for Europe again.Within months of her return to Europe in the autumn of 1871, Cassatt's prospects had brightened.

Mary Cassatt: Her painting "Two Women Throwing Flowers During Carnival" was well received in the Salon of 1872, and was purchased.She attracted much favorable notice in Parma and was supported and encouraged by the art community there: "All Parma is talking of Miss Cassatt and her picture, and everyone is anxious to know her".After completing her commission for the bishop, Cassatt traveled to Madrid and Seville, where she painted a group of paintings of Spanish subjects, including "Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla" (1873, in the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution).

Mary Cassatt: In 1874, she made the decision to take up residence in France.She was joined by her sister Lydia who shared an apartment with her.Cassatt opened a studio in Paris.

Mary Cassatt: Louisa May Alcott's sister, Abigail May Alcott, was then an art student in Paris and visited Cassatt.Cassatt continued to express criticism of the politics of the Salon and the conventional taste that prevailed there.She was blunt in her comments, as reported by Sartain, who wrote: "she is entirely too slashing, snubs all modern art, disdains the Salon pictures of Cabanel, Bonnat, all the names we are used to revere".

Mary Cassatt: Cassatt saw that works by female artists were often dismissed with contempt unless the artist had a friend or protector on the jury, and she would not flirt with jurors to curry favor.Her cynicism grew when one of the two pictures she submitted in 1875 was refused by the jury, only to be accepted the following year after she darkened the background.She had quarrels with Sartain, who thought Cassatt too outspoken and self-centered, and eventually they parted.

Mary Cassatt: Out of her distress and self-criticism, Cassatt decided that she needed to move away from genre paintings and onto more fashionable subjects, in order to attract portrait commissions from American socialites abroad, but that attempt bore little fruit at first.In 1877, both her entries were rejected, and for the first time in seven years she had no works in the Salon.At this low point in her career she was invited by Edgar Degas to show her works with the Impressionists, a group that had begun their own series of independent exhibitions in 1874 with much attendant notoriety.

Mary Cassatt: The Impressionists (also known as the "Independents" or "Intransigents") had no formal manifesto and varied considerably in subject matter and technique.They tended to prefer plein air painting and the application of vibrant color in separate strokes with little pre-mixing, which allows the eye to merge the results in an "impressionistic" manner.The Impressionists had been receiving the wrath of the critics for several years.

Mary Cassatt: Henry Bacon, a friend of the Cassatts, thought that the Impressionists were so radical that they were "afflicted with some hitherto unknown disease of the eye".They already had one female member, artist Berthe Morisot, who became Cassatt's friend and colleague.Cassatt admired Degas, whose pastels had made a powerful impression on her when she encountered them in an art dealer's window in 1875.

Mary Cassatt: "I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art," she later recalled."It changed my life.I saw art then as I wanted to see it."

Mary Cassatt: She accepted Degas' invitation with enthusiasm and began preparing paintings for the next Impressionist show, planned for 1878, which (after a postponement because of the World's Fair) took place on April 10, 1879.She felt comfortable with the Impressionists and joined their cause enthusiastically, declaring: "we are carrying on a despairing fight & need all our forces".Unable to attend cafes with them without attracting unfavorable attention, she met with them privately and at exhibitions.

Mary Cassatt: She now hoped for commercial success selling paintings to the sophisticated Parisians who preferred the avant-garde.Her style had gained a new spontaneity during the intervening two years.Previously a studio-bound artist, she had adopted the practice of carrying a sketchbook with her while out-of-doors or at the theater, and recording the scenes she saw.

Mary Cassatt: In 1877, Cassatt was joined in Paris by her father and mother, who returned with her sister Lydia, all eventually to share a large apartment on the fifth floor of 13, Avenue Trudaine, ().Mary valued their companionship, as neither she nor Lydia had married.A case was made that Mary suffered from narcissistic disturbance, never completing the recognition of herself as a person outside of the orbit of her mother.

Mary Cassatt: Mary had decided early in life that marriage would be incompatible with her career.Lydia, who was frequently painted by her sister, suffered from recurrent bouts of illness, and her death in 1882 left Cassatt temporarily unable to work.Cassatt's father insisted that her studio and supplies be covered by her sales, which were still meager.

Mary Cassatt: Afraid of having to paint "potboilers" to make ends meet, Cassatt applied herself to produce some quality paintings for the next Impressionist exhibition.Three of her most accomplished works from 1878 were "Portrait of the Artist" (self-portrait), "Little Girl in a Blue Armchair", and "Reading Le Figaro" (portrait of her mother).Degas had considerable influence on Cassatt.

Mary Cassatt: Both were highly experimental in their use of materials, trying distemper and metallic paints in many works, such as "Woman Standing Holding a Fan", 1878-79 (Amon Carter Museum of American Art).She became extremely proficient in the use of pastels, eventually creating many of her most important works in this medium.Degas also introduced her to etching, of which he was a recognized master.

Mary Cassatt: The two worked side by side for a while, and her draftsmanship gained considerable strength under his tutelage.One example of her thoughtful approach to the medium of drypoint as a mode for reflecting on her status as an artist is 'Reflection' of 1889–90, which has recently been interpreted as a self-portrait.Degas in turn depicted Cassatt in a series of etchings recording their trips to the Louvre.

Mary Cassatt: She treasured his friendship but learned not to expect too much from his fickle and temperamental nature after a project they were collaborating on at the time, a proposed journal devoted to prints, was abruptly dropped by him.The sophisticated and well-dressed Degas, then forty-five, was a welcome dinner guest at the Cassatt residence, and likewise they at his "soirées".The Impressionist exhibit of 1879 was the most successful to date, despite the absence of Renoir, Sisley, Manet and Cézanne, who were attempting once again to gain recognition at the Salon.

Mary Cassatt: Through the efforts of Gustave Caillebotte, who organized and underwrote the show, the group made a profit and sold many works, although the criticism continued as harsh as ever.The "Revue des Deux Mondes" wrote, "M. Degas and Mlle.Cassatt are, nevertheless, the only artists who distinguish themselves... and who offer some attraction and some excuse in the pretentious show of window dressing and infantile daubing".

Mary Cassatt: Cassatt displayed eleven works, including "Lydia in a Loge, Wearing a Pearl Necklace, (Woman in a Loge)".Although critics claimed that Cassatt's colors were too bright and that her portraits were too accurate to be flattering to the subjects, her work was not savaged as was Monet's, whose circumstances were the most desperate of all the Impressionists at that time.She used her share of the profits to purchase a work by Degas and one by Monet.

Mary Cassatt: She participated in the Impressionist Exhibitions that followed in 1880 and 1881, and she remained an active member of the Impressionist circle until 1886.In 1886, Cassatt provided two paintings for the first Impressionist exhibition in the US, organized by art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel.Her friend Louisine Elder married Harry Havemeyer in 1883, and with Cassatt as advisor, the couple began collecting the Impressionists on a grand scale.

Mary Cassatt: Much of their vast collection is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.Cassatt also made several portraits of family members during that period, of which "Portrait of Alexander Cassatt and His Son Robert Kelso" (1885) is one of her best regarded.Cassatt's style then evolved, and she moved away from Impressionism to a simpler, more straightforward approach.

Mary Cassatt: She began to exhibit her works in New York galleries as well.After 1886, Cassatt no longer identified herself with any art movement and experimented with a variety of techniques.Cassatt and her contemporaries enjoyed the wave of feminism that occurred in the 1840s, allowing them access to educational institutions at newly coed colleges and universities, such as Oberlin and the University of Michigan.

Mary Cassatt: Likewise, women's colleges such as Vassar, Smith and Wellesley opened their doors during this time.Cassat was an outspoken advocate for women's equality, campaigning with her friends for equal travel scholarships for students in the 1860s, and the right to vote in the 1910s.Mary Cassatt depicted the "New Woman" of the 19th century from the woman's perspective.

Mary Cassatt: As a successful, highly trained woman artist who never married, Cassatt—like Ellen Day Hale, Elizabeth Coffin, Elizabeth Nourse and Cecilia Beaux—personified the "New Woman".She "initiated the profound beginnings in recreating the image of the 'new' women", drawn from the influence of her intelligent and active mother, Katherine Cassatt, who believed in educating women to be knowledgeable and socially active.She is depicted in "Reading 'Le Figaro' "(1878).

Mary Cassatt: Although Cassatt did not explicitly make political statements about women's rights in her work, her artistic portrayal of women was consistently done with dignity and the suggestion of a deeper, meaningful inner life.Cassatt objected to being stereotyped as a "woman artist", she supported women's suffrage, and in 1915 showed eighteen works in an exhibition supporting the movement organised by Louisine Havemeyer, a committed and active feminist.The exhibition brought her into conflict with her sister-in-law Eugenie Carter Cassatt, who was anti-suffrage and who boycotted the show along with Philadelphia society in general.

Mary Cassatt: Cassatt responded by selling off her work that was otherwise destined for her heirs.In particular "The Boating Party", thought to have been inspired by the birth of Eugenie's daughter Ellen Mary, was bought by the National Gallery, Washington DC.Cassatt and Degas had a long period of collaboration.

Mary Cassatt: The two painters had studios close together, Cassatt at 19, rue Laval, (), Degas at 4, rue Frochot, (), less than a five-minute stroll apart, and Degas developed the habit of looking in at Cassatt's studio and offering her advice and helping her gain models.They had much in common: they shared similar tastes in art and literature, came from affluent backgrounds, had studied painting in Italy, and both were independent, never marrying.The degree of intimacy between them cannot be assessed now, as no letters survive, but it is unlikely they were in a relationship given their conservative social backgrounds and strong moral principles.

Mary Cassatt: Several of Vincent van Gogh's letters attest Degas' sexual continence.Degas introduced Cassatt to pastel and engraving, both of which Cassatt quickly mastered, while for her part Cassatt was instrumental in helping Degas sell his paintings and promoting his reputation in America.Both regarded themselves as figure painters, and the art historian George Shackelford suggests they were influenced by the art critic Louis Edmond Duranty's appeal in his pamphlet "The New Painting" for a revitalization in figure painting: "Let us take leave of the stylized human body, which is treated like a vase.

Mary Cassatt: What we need is the characteristic modern person in his clothes, in the midst of his social surroundings, at home or out in the street."After Cassatt's parents and sister Lydia joined Cassatt in Paris in 1877, Degas, Cassatt, and Lydia were often to be seen at the Louvre studying artworks together.Degas produced two prints, notable for their technical innovation, depicting Cassatt at the Louvre looking at artworks while Lydia reads a guidebook.

Mary Cassatt: These were destined for a prints journal planned by Degas (together with Camille Pissarro and others), which never came to fruition.Cassatt frequently posed for Degas, notably for his millinery series trying on hats.Around 1884, Degas made a portrait in oils of Cassatt, "Mary Cassatt Seated, Holding Cards".

Mary Cassatt: A "Self-Portrait" (c. 1880) by Cassatt depicts her in the identical hat and dress, leading art historian Griselda Pollock to speculate they were executed in a joint painting session in the early years of their acquaintance.Cassatt and Degas worked most closely together in the fall and winter of 1879–80 when Cassatt was mastering her printmaking technique.Degas owned a small printing press, and by day she worked at his studio using his tools and press while in the evening she made studies for the etching plate the next day.

Mary Cassatt: However, in April 1880, Degas abruptly withdrew from the prints journal they had been collaborating on, and without his support the project folded.Degas' withdrawal piqued Cassatt who had worked hard at preparing a print, "In the Opera Box", in a large edition of fifty impressions, no doubt destined for the journal.Although Cassatt's warm feelings for Degas were to last her entire life, she never again worked with him as closely as she had over the prints journal.

Mary Cassatt: Mathews notes that she ceased executing her theater scenes at this time.Degas was forthright in his views, as was Cassatt.They clashed over the Dreyfus affair (early in her career she had executed a portrait of the art collector Moyse Dreyfus, a relative of the court-martialled lieutenant at the center of the affair).

Mary Cassatt: Cassatt later expressed satisfaction at the irony of Lousine Havermeyer's 1915 joint exhibition of hers and Degas' work being held in aid of women's suffrage, equally capable of affectionately repeating Degas' antifemale comments as being estranged by them (when viewing her "Two Women Picking Fruit" for the first time, he had commented "No woman has the right to draw like that").From the 1890s onwards their relationship took on a decidedly commercial aspect, as in general had Cassatt's other relations with the Impressionist circle; nevertheless they continued to visit each other until Degas died in 1917.Cassatt's reputation is based on an extensive series of rigorously drawn and tenderly observed paintings and prints on the theme of the mother and child.

Mary Cassatt: The earliest dated work on this subject is the drypoint "Gardner Held by His Mother" (an impression inscribed "Jan/88" is in the New York Public Library), although she had painted a few earlier works on the theme.Some of these works depict her own relatives, friends, or clients, although in her later years she generally used professional models in compositions that are often reminiscent of Italian Renaissance depictions of the Madonna and Child.After 1900, she concentrated almost exclusively on mother-and-child subjects.

Mary Cassatt: The 1890s were Cassatt's busiest and most creative period.She had matured considerably and became more diplomatic and less blunt in her opinions.She also became a role model for young American artists who sought her advice.

Mary Cassatt: Among them was Lucy A. Bacon, whom Cassatt introduced to Camille Pissarro.Though the Impressionist group disbanded, Cassatt still had contact with some of the members, including Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro.In 1891, she exhibited a series of highly original colored drypoint and aquatint prints, including "Woman Bathing" and "The Coiffure", inspired by the Japanese masters shown in Paris the year before.

Mary Cassatt: (See Japonism) Cassatt was attracted to the simplicity and clarity of Japanese design, and the skillful use of blocks of color.In her interpretation, she used primarily light, delicate pastel colors and avoided black (a "forbidden" color among the Impressionists).Adelyn D. Breeskin, the author of two "catalogue raisonnés" of Cassatt's work, comments that these colored prints, "now stand as her most original contribution... adding a new chapter to the history of graphic arts...technically, as color prints, they have never been surpassed".

Mary Cassatt: Also in 1891, Chicago businesswoman Bertha Palmer approached Cassatt to paint a 12' × 58' mural about "Modern Woman" for the Women's Building for the World's Columbian Exposition to be held in 1893.Cassatt completed the project over the next two years while living in France with her mother.The mural was designed as a triptych.

Mary Cassatt: The central theme was titled "Young Women Plucking the Fruits of Knowledge or Science".The left panel was "Young Girls Pursuing Fame" and the right panel "Arts, Music, Dancing".The mural displays a community of women apart from their relation to men, as accomplished persons in their own right.

Mary Cassatt: Palmer considered Cassatt to be an American treasure and could think of no one better to paint a mural at an exposition that was to do so much to focus the world's attention on the status of women.Unfortunately the mural did not survive following the run of the exhibition when the building was torn down.Cassatt made several studies and paintings on themes similar to those in the mural, so it is possible to see her development of those ideas and images.

Mary Cassatt: Cassatt also exhibited other paintings in the Exposition.As the new century arrived, Cassatt served as an advisor to several major art collectors and stipulated that they eventually donate their purchases to American art museums.In recognition of her contributions to the arts, France awarded her the Légion d'honneur in 1904.

Mary Cassatt: Although instrumental in advising American collectors, recognition of her art came more slowly in the United States.Even among her family members back in America, she received little recognition and was totally overshadowed by her famous brother.Mary Cassatt's brother, Alexander Cassatt, was president of the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1899 until his death in 1906.

Mary Cassatt: She was shaken, as they had been close, but she continued to be very productive in the years leading up to 1910.An increasing sentimentality is apparent in her work of the 1900s; her work was popular with the public and the critics, but she was no longer breaking new ground, and her Impressionist colleagues who once provided stimulation and criticism were dying.She was hostile to such new developments in art as post-Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism.

Mary Cassatt: Two of her works appeared in the Armory Show of 1913, both images of a mother and child.A trip to Egypt in 1910 impressed Cassatt with the beauty of its ancient art, but was followed by a crisis of creativity; not only had the trip exhausted her, but she declared herself "crushed by the strength of this Art", saying, "I fought against it but it conquered, it is surely the greatest Art the past has left us ... how are my feeble hands to ever paint the effect on me."Diagnosed with diabetes, rheumatism, neuralgia, and cataracts in 1911, she did not slow down, but after 1914 she was forced to stop painting as she became almost blind.

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Military academy: Three types of academy exist: pre-collegiate-level institutions awarding academic qualifications, university-level institutions awarding bachelor's degree level qualifications, and those preparing officer cadets for commissioning into the armed services of the state.A naval academy is either a type of military academy (in the broad sense of that term) or is distinguished from one (in the narrow sense).In U.S. usage, the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy are both service academies.

Military academy: The first military academies were established in the 18th century to provide future officers for technically specialized corps, such as engineers and artillery, with scientific training.The Royal Danish Naval Academy was set up in 1701, making it the oldest military academy in existence.The Royal Military Academy, Woolwich was set up in 1741, after a false start in 1720 because of a lack of funds, as the earliest military academy in Britain.

Military academy: Its original purpose was to train cadets entering the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers.In France, the École Royale du Génie at Mézières was founded in 1748, followed by a non-technical academy in 1751, the École Royale Militaire offering a general military education to the nobility.French military academies were widely copied in Prussia, Austria, Russia and even minor powers, including Turin and the Kingdom of Savoy, in the late 18th century.

Military academy: By the turn of the century, under the impetus of the Napoleonic Wars and the strain that the armies of Europe subsequently came under, military academies for the training of commissioned officers of the army were set up in most of the combatant nations.These military schools had two functions: to provide instruction for serving officers in the functions of the efficient staff-officer, and to school youngsters before they gained an officer's commission.The Kriegsakademie in Prussia was founded in 1801 and the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr was created by order of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 as a replacement for the École Royale Militaire of the Ancien Régime (the institution that Napoleon himself had graduated from).

Military academy: The Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in England was the brainchild of John Le Marchant in 1801, who established schools for the military instruction of officers at High Wycombe and Great Marlow, with a grant of £30,000 from Parliament.The two original departments were later combined and moved to Sandhurst.In the United States, the United States Military Academy (USMA) located in West Point, New York was founded on March 16, 1802 and is one of five service academies in the nation.

Military academy: West Point rose to prominence after the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).Notable alumni include astronaut Buzz Aldrin, American presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and several American and Confederate generals such as William Tecumseh Sherman, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur and George S. Patton.A military school teaches children of various ages (elementary school, middle school or high school) in a military environment which includes training in military aspects, such as drill.

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Military academy: and "The Presidio").A college-level military academy is an institute of higher learning of things military.It is part of a larger system of military education and training institutions.

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Military academy: In the U.S., graduates have a major field of study, earning a Bachelor's degree in that subject just as at other universities.However, in British academies, the graduate does not achieve a university degree, since the whole of the one-year course (nowadays undertaken mainly but not exclusively by university graduates) is dedicated to military training.There are two types of military academies: national (government-run) and state/private-run.

Military academy: Argentine Army: Argentine Navy: Argentine Air Force: Brazil has several military academies: Two post-secondary military academies are operated under the Canadian Military Colleges system, the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC) in Kingston, Ontario; and the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean (CMR) in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec.RMCC was established in 1876, while CMR was established in 1954.The two institutions provided military education to officer cadets of all three elements in the Canadian Forces; the navy, army and air force; with RMC granted the authority to confer academic degrees in arts, science and engineering by the 1960s.

Military academy: From 1940 to 1995, the Department of National Defence operated a third military college in Victoria, British Columbia, known as Royal Roads Military College.Graduates of the Colleges are widely acknowledged to have had a disproportionate impact in the Canadian services and society, thanks to the solid foundations provided by their military education.Military discipline and training, as well as a focus on physical fitness and fluency in both of Canada's two official languages, English and French, provided cadets with ample challenges and a very fulfilling experience.

Military academy: In 1995 the Department of National Defence was forced to close RRMC and CMR due to budget considerations, but RMCC continues to operate.RRMC reopened as a civilian university in the fall of 1995, and is maintained by the Government of British Columbia.In 2007, the Department of National Defence reopened CMR as a military academy that offers equivalent schooling as CEGEP, a level of post-secondary education in Quebec's education system.

Military academy: In addition to Canadian Military Colleges, the Canadian Armed Forces also operate a number of training centres and schools, including the Canadian Forces College, and the Canadian Forces Language School.The components of the Canadian Armed Forces also maintain training centres and schools.The Canadian Army Doctrine and Training Centre (CADTC) is a formation in the Army that delivers combat, and doctrinal training.

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Military academy: In addition to publicly operated institutions, Canada is also home to one private military boarding school, Robert Land Academy, located in West Lincoln, Ontario.Founded in 1978, it is an all-boys' institute that is fully accredited by Ontario's Ministry of Education.The school offers elementary and secondary levels of education, providing schooling for students from Grade 6 to Grade 12.

Military academy: National Army of Colombia: Colombian Air Force: Colombian Naval Infantry and Colombian Navy: National Police of Colombia: Germany has a unique system for civil and military education.The only true military academy is the "Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr" where mainly future staff officers and general staff officers are further trained.The standard education in military leadership is the task of the "Offizierschulen" (officers' schools) run by the three branches.

Military academy: The contents differ from branch to branch.In the army all officers are at least trained to lead a platoon.There they also have to pass an officer exam to become commissioned later on.

Military academy: Moreover, there exist so called "Waffenschulen" (school of weapons) like infantry school or artillery school.There the officers learn to deal with the typical tasks of their respective corps.A specialty of the German concept of officer formation is the academic education.

Military academy: Germany runs two "Universities of the German Federal Armed Forces" where almost every future officer has to pass non-military studies and achieve a bachelor's or master's degree.During their studies (after at least three years of service) the candidates become commissioned "Leutnant" (second lieutenant).The three officer's schools are: Academic and staff education: The Hellenic Armed Forces have military academies supervised by each branch of the Armed Forces individually: Military Schools 1.

Military academy: 5 Rashtriya Military Schools across India in the Belgaum Military School, Bangalore Military School, Chail Military School, Dholpur Military School and Ajmer Military School The Indonesian Military Academy was founded in Yogyakarta, October 13, 1945 by the order of General Staff Chief of Indonesia Army Lieutenant General Urip Sumohardjo as the Militaire Academie (MA) Yogyakarta.Currently, the Tentara Nasional Indonesia or the TNI (Indonesian National Armed Forces), under the supervision of the Commanding General of the Indonesian National Armed Forces Academy System (a two or three-star officer in billet) in the HQ of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, has divided the academies into the three respective services: Each service academy is headed by a two-star general, and his/her deputy is a one-star officer.All the students (cadets/midshipman) are recruited from senior high school graduates from all over Indonesia.

Military academy: Shortly after graduation, they are commissioned as "Letnan Dua" (Second Lieutenant) in their respective services and get the "Diploma IV" (Associate degree, 4th Grade) comparable to civil academies or universities.The length term is now 4 years and is divided into five grades of cadets' ranks, starting from the lowest: "Taruna" refers to cadets in the Military Academy, "Kadet" refers to cadets in the Naval Academy, and "Karbol" refers to cadets in the Air Force Academy.Until 1999, before the Indonesian National Police officially separated from the armed forces, the Indonesian Police Academy ("AKPOL") also stood under the National Armed Forces Academy but now has separated from the Military and is under the auspices of the President of Indonesia controlled by the National Police Headquarters ("Mabes Polri"), where in the other hand the Armed Forces (Army, Naval, and Air Force) Academies of Indonesia is under the auspices of the Ministry of Defense controlled by the Armed Forces General Headquarters ("Mabes TNI").

Military academy: Presently, the Police Academy is located in Semarang (Central Java), and is supervised under the supervision of the Chief of Indonesian National Police ("Kapolri").All three academies and the Police Academy have a joint 4th class cadet training program since 2008, after completing it the cadets go to their respective academies to continue with the three remaining years of study before commissioning.As of July 2019, Rear Admiral Aan Kurnia is the Commanding General, INAF Academy System, with Air Vice Marshal Sri Pulung as the assistant commander.

Military academy: The academies system was founded on 16 December 1965.Imam Ali Officers' University (Persian: دانشگاه افسری امام علی; acronym: "دا اف, DĀʿAF), " formerly known as Officers' School "(Persian: دانشکده افسری)" is the military academy of Ground Forces of Islamic Republic of Iran Army, located in Tehran, Iran.Cadets of the academy achieve the second Lieutenant rank upon graduation and join one of Islamic Republic of Iran Army branches.

Military academy: High school level institutions (only for classical and scientific liceum, starting from grade 10): 2009–2010 school year was the first school year with girls attending.Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) schools: University level institutions: Cadet Corps The three main military academies: Other military academies: Secondary level institutions: University level: Specialist training and staff institutions: Reserve Officer Training Units ( or ) or ROTU exists only in public universities in Malaysia.This is a tertiary institution based officer commissioning program to equip students as officer cadets with military knowledge and understanding for service as Commissioned Officers in the reserve components of the various branches of the Malaysian Armed Forces.

Military academy: Tier One – initial officer training Tier Two – junior officer education Tier Three – senior officer education Undergraduate officer training The Philippines patterned all its service academies after the United States Military Academy (West Point) and the United States Merchant Marine Academy.These colleges are operated by the Philippine Government which serves four years of different baccalaureate degrees: Aside from the PMA and the PMMA, all three branches of the AFP have their own Officer Candidate Course Programs for both men and women, patterned after their US counterparts.The nation's higher military colleges are: See also: Cadet Corps (Russia), Military academies in Russia The General Sir John Kotelawala Defense University, was established in 1980 and is named after Gen. Sri John Kotelawala the 2nd Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.

Military academy: Taking cadets from all three armed services, 3 non-university level Military Academies, one for each armed service providing basic training for officer and a Command and Staff College for senior officers of the three armed services.Uganda maintains the followings military training institutions, as of December 2010: A number of universities have specialized military institutes, such as the Faculty of Military Legal Studies at Kharkiv's National Yaroslav Mudryi Law Academy of Ukraine; however, the primary Ukrainian military academies are the following: There are also numerous Cadet forces that operate for all branches of the armed forces for children aged 10–20.These are not designed to recruit people into the armed forces but rather are simply Ministry of Defence sponsored youth organisations.

Military academy: Although an undergraduate degree is not a prerequisite for Officer training, the majority of potential Officers will have attended University before joining the Armed Forces.At some universities there may be the option for people to join either a University Royal Naval Unit, a University Officer Training Corps (UOTC) or a University Air Squadron, which are designed to introduce students to life in the Forces and show them the careers that are available.People sponsored under the Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme will join one of the four Support Units attached to universities participating in DTUS.

Military academy: There is a requirement for bursars of DTUS to join the military for three years after completion of their degree, there no requirement for students of any other organisation to join the military after they finish their degree programs; and the great majority have no further contact with the armed forces.Although service with these organisations may give some initial benefit to cadets attending the military colleges/academies, the next stage of the officer training programs assumes no prior military experience/knowledge, and those that did not partake in military activities at university are not disadvantaged.There are now four military academies in the United Kingdom.

Military academy: Although the curriculum at each varies due to the differing nature of the service a man or woman is joining, it is a combination of military and academic study that is designed to turn young civilians into comprehensively trained military officers.Officer Training for the Reserve Forces (e.g.Army Reserve, Royal Naval Reserve, RAF Reserves and Royal Marines Reserves) also takes place at the relevant military academies, but under a different curriculum and the courses tend to be concentrated into a much shorter period - a significant amount of the study will be undertaken at the cadet's reserve unit.

Military academy: In the United States, the term "military academy" does not necessarily mean a government-owned institution run by the armed forces to train its own officers.It may also mean a middle school, high school, or college, whether public or private, which instructs its students in military-style education, discipline and tradition.Students at such civilian institutions can earn a commission in the U.S. military through the successful completion of a Reserve Officer Training Corps program along with their college or university's academic coursework.

Military academy: Most state-level military academies maintain both a civilian student body and a traditional corps of cadets.The only exception is the Virginia Military Institute, which remains all-military.The colleges operated by the U.S. Federal Government, referred to as federal service academies, are: There is one all-military state-sponsored military academy: In addition, these five institutions that were military colleges at the time of their founding now maintain both a corps of cadets and a civilian student body.

Military academy: Many of these institutions also offer on-line degree programs: Along with VMI, these institutions are known as the senior military colleges of the US.Today four institutions are considered military junior colleges (MJC).These four military schools participate in the Army's two-year Early Commissioning Program, an Army ROTC program where qualified students can earn a commission as a Second Lieutenant after only two years of college.

Military academy: The four military Junior jolleges are as follows: There are six state-operated Merchant Marine academies: These merchant marine academies operate on a military college system.Part of the training that the cadets receive is naval and military in nature.Cadets may apply for Naval Reserve commissions upon obtaining their Merchant Marine Officer's licenses.