Jackson's sword
Subtitle: the Army officer corps on the American frontier, 1810-1821
By: Samuel J. Watson
Series: Modern war studies
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780700618842
Subjects: United States; Civil-military relations; Military leadership; Territorial expansion; Military History; United States. Army; Officers; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the soldier and the nineteenth-century American state : insulation, autonomy, and agency; title: Confidence, belligerence, and insubordination : Army operations along the Texan and maritime frontiers of Louisiana, 1810-1814; title: The Army asserts American hegemony on the Florida frontier : from the Creek War to the destruction of the Negro Fort, 1813-1816; title: The tensions of aggression and accountability : military expansionism in the Gulf borderlands, 1815-1817; title: Concluding the quasi-war with Spain : civil-military tensions, the occupation of Amelia Island, and the "First Seminole War," 1817-1818; title: Jackson and Gaines get their way : civil-military friction over the invasion of Florida, Indian relations, and filibustering against Texas, 1817-1821; title: Assessing national military expansion on the western frontier to 1825 : political and diplomatic ebb and flow in Army operations on the Plains; title: The growth of professional accountability during the 1820s and 1830s : contexts, policies, and causation-domestic and international; title: Conclusion : the soldier and the Jacksonian state: the Military Academy, Army missions, and political acceptance in an age of democratization.