Download PDF by Robert V. Remini, Wesley K. Clark: Andrew Jackson (Great Generals)

By Robert V. Remini, Wesley K. Clark

ISBN-10: 0230600158

ISBN-13: 9780230600157

ISBN-10: 0230614701

ISBN-13: 9780230614703

The most recent addition to Palgrave's nice Generals sequence makes a speciality of Andrew Jackson's profession together with his time as a normal in Tennessee and his get up the military ranks. Jackson's powerful use of spies in battle time and of martial legislations in peace time sparked a debate concerning the curbing of civil liberties within the identify of nationwide safeguard that maintains to this present day. so much of all, Jackson used to be a superb motivator who may, with a couple of rigorously chosen phrases and by way of his personal courageous instance, flip round starved, deserting troops, convincing them to struggle. With dramatic scenes of fierce battles and victories, Remini finds the following why Jackson's daring management as a common resulted in his election as President of the U.S. in 1828.

Show description

Read or Download Andrew Jackson (Great Generals) PDF

Best leaders & notable people books

A Wider Patriotism: Alfred Milner and the British Empire by J Lee Thompson PDF

While Alfred Milner (1854-1925) was once knighted, he took as his motto Communis Patria, 'patriotism for our universal country'. through this he intended the broader patriotism of the British Empire, the furthering of which he made his life's paintings. this can be the 1st examine of Milner to take his politics, or 'constructive' imperialism as its basic subject.

New PDF release: Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America,

Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic neighborhood, and achieving adulthood in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the us in 1940. This full of life and readable publication tells the excellent tale of his lifestyles and paintings in the USA, his politics and character, and the way he got here to persuade not just Jewish debate but additionally wider spiritual and cultural debates within the postwar a long time.

Download e-book for kindle: Translation Spectrum by Marilyn Gaddis Rose

The interesting technique of translation in its many sorts is the topic of the essays during this booklet. 5 of the essays talk about the theoretical features universal to all works of translation. different essays elucidate the actual techniques of translating literature, drama, social technology, classics, and songs.

Download PDF by Maggy Hendry (eds.): Dictionary of Women’s Biography

The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography includes information of the lives of over 2100 ladies from all sessions, cultures and walks of lifestyles - from queens to television cooks, engineers to face up comics, pilots to poisoners. With subsections for additional interpreting, entire topic index and a bibliographical survey, this dictionary of women's biography is a useful reference resource.

Additional info for Andrew Jackson (Great Generals)

Sample text

The attack was offensive, not defensive, declared Knox, and a violation of the specific orders from the War Department. Jackson bolted to his feet on the House floor. He roared his rage. He insisted that the raids were “just and necessary. When it was seen that war was waged upon the State, that the knife and the tomahawk were held over the heads of women and children, that peaceable citizens were murdered” by the “savages,” it necessitated a swift and forceful response. ”23 The vote was put off until the next day.

Claiborne to the post. S. forces in New Orleans. Wilkinson was a double agent who acted and was paid to spy for the Spanish still present in the Floridas. Despite this disappointment, Jackson continued to bolster his reputation as an energetic and skillful commander of the Tennessee militia who acted promptly whenever unlawful activity broke out among the tribes or the whites living on the frontier. S. agents sent to particular tribes not only to protect the Indians from white exploitation but to distribute annuities to their chiefs.

16 The worst seemed to be over. The troops marched back to Fort Strother, more supplies arrived, and Jackson expected to link up with General Cocke momentarily. But the volunteers had other ideas. Their one-year enlistment would expire on December 10, 1813, and they fully intended to break camp and go home. Of course, as part of their one year enlistment, they counted the days they spent at home waiting to respond to Jackson’s summons to duty; but the general insisted that a year’s enlistment meant 365 days of actual service in the field.

Download PDF sample

Andrew Jackson (Great Generals) by Robert V. Remini, Wesley K. Clark


by Thomas
4.4

Rated 4.23 of 5 – based on 40 votes