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Title: "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlisting in the 18th Century British Army
Author: Kane, Nicholas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Military history
Description: NICHOLAS KANE. "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlistment in the 18th Century British Army. (Under the direction of Drs. DAVID JOHNSON and JOHN SMAIL) In the eighteenth century, the British military boomed in size with the various wars that ...

Title: Crossing The Pond: How General Winfield Scott Imported the British Model of Military Occupation for use in the United States Army in the Early Nineteenth Century
Author: Berdusis, John
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Military history, Law, History
Description: General Winfield Scott’s occupation of Mexican territory during the Mexican American War from 1846-48 is credited as the progenitor of US Army military occupation doctrine, yet historians have not investigated where and how Scott developed these p...

Title: Reclaiming the Unredeemed: Irredentism and the National Schism in Greece's First World War
Author: Kinley, Christopher
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History, Military history, Area studies
Description: Greece’s role in the First World War, although short, was characterized by political and social tumult that tore the small country in half, splitting it into two political camps both with their own public supporters. This divide is known as the Na...

Title: War in the Shadows: IRA Intimidation and Assassination, 1919-1921
Author: Cannady, Michael
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Military history, History
Description: This work addresses a gap in the historiography of the Irish revolution: the use of intimidation and assassination by the IRA. Although some studies have focused on whether IRA assassinations were justified, little scholarship exists about their e...