[PDF] The War Trumpet eBook

Author : Bruce P. Gleason
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0806156538

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Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies, mounted bands played a unique and distinctive role in American military history. Their fascinating story within the U.S. Army unfolds in this latest book from noted music historian and former army musician Bruce P. Gleason. Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums follows American horse-mounted bands from the nation's military infancy through its emergence as a world power during World War II and the corresponding shift from horse-powered to mechanized cavalry. Gleason traces these bands to their origins, including the horn-blowing Celtic and Roman cavalries of antiquity and the mounted Middle Eastern musicians whom European Crusaders encountered in the Holy Land. He describes the performance, musical selections, composition, and duties of American mounted bands that have served regular, militia, volunteer, and National Guard regiments in military and civil parades and concerts, in ceremonies, and on the battlefield. Over time the composition of the bands has changed—beginning with trumpets and drums and expanding to full-fledged concert bands on horseback. Woven throughout the book are often-surprising strands of American military history from the War of 1812 through the Civil War, action on the western frontier, and the two world wars. Touching on anthropology, musicology, and the history of the United States and its military, Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums is an unparalleled account of mounted military bands and their cultural significance.

Author : Emiro Martínez-Osorio
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487546335

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The epic poems written during the rise of Portugal and Spain on the global stage often dealt with topics quite unimaginable to the likes of Virgil or Homer. These poems reveal the astounding opportunities for upward social mobility and self-promotion afforded by broader access to print and the vast amount of knowledge and material wealth accrued through maritime exploration. Iberian poets of the period were quite cognizant of their ventures into uncharted territory, and that awareness informed their literary journeys. The War Trumpet features nine substantial essays that expand our understanding of Iberian Renaissance epic poetry by posing questions seldom raised in relation to poems such as La Araucana, Os Lusíadas, Carlo famoso, El Bernardo, Arauco Domado, Espejo de paciencia, and Felicissima Victoria, among others. Particularly compelling are questions concerned with early modern understandings of the natural world, the practice of poetic imitation, the discipline of cartography, or the reception of Petrarchism in the newly established viceroyalties of the New World. Fostering a greater appreciation of the intersection between poetry, war, and exploration, The War Trumpet sheds light on the transformative changes that took place during the period of Iberian expansion.

Author : Dave R. Palmer
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0891415505

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Soldier/scholar Palmer traces the history of the American involvement in Vietnam and shows how events in both the U.S. and Vietnam became inextricably linked as domestic dissent and a lack of realistic, viable military strategy ultimately led to America's first lost war. Index. 6 maps.

Author : Dave R. Palmer
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0307547647

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Soldier/scholar Palmer traces the history of the American involvement in Vietnam and shows how events in both the U.S. and Vietnam became inextricably linked as domestic dissent and a lack of realistic, viable military strategy ultimately led to America's first lost war.

Author : Terrence J. Donovan
Publisher : Terrence Donovan
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0615220770

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In the spring of 1876, the U.S. Army was ordered to round up Sioux Indians who had left their reservation in Dakota Territory to join other Northern Plains Indians in southern Montana. By mid-June, General George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry Regiment had located a fresh Indian trail, and the Seventh went into fast pursuit. Late on a hot, Sunday afternoon, Custer led five companies of the Regiment to their doom at the hands of the Indians he had so aggressively chased down. They died on high ground overlooking the Little Big Horn River and a large Indian encampment on its far floodplain. Custer supporters, in shock and disbelief, stung by the unacceptable possibility that Custer may have blundered, were convinced that the Civil War boy general was abandoned to his fate by his subordinate commanders who despised him. Allegations soon flew that Captain Frederick W. Benteen tarried on the trail behind, disobeying a written order to come to Custer quickly. The question has remained: did Benteen tarry on the trail? In this book, the author takes an analytical look at the existing evidence and comes to a remarkable conclusion.

Author : Paul Horgan
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780879238636

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Tells of a company of U.S. cavalry in Arizona in the 1880s, and their part in the wars against the Chiricahua Apaches.

Author : Edward Sydney Tylee
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2016-05-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781358092442

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Author : Ann McMillan
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 2001-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140298383

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An officer returns to his plantation in 1861 Virginia to find his family butchered. The servants? Fears of a slave uprising haunt the countryside. White nurse Narcissa Powers investigates.