Peacekeepers and Conquerors: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1821-1846
Lawrence, KS: Univeristy Press of Kansas, 2013. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt spine lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with black, brown and tan lettering. xvi, 636 pp. BW illustrations. VG/VG. Item #169784
ISBN: 9780700619153
Watson now focuses on the quarter-century between the Army's reduction in force in 1821 and the Mexican War. He examines a broad swath of military activity beginning with campaigns against southeastern Indians, notably the dispossession of the Creeks remaining in Georgia and Alabama from 1825 to 1834; the expropriation of the Cherokee between 1836 and 1838; and the Second Seminole War. He also explores peacekeeping on the Canadian border, which exploded in rebellion against British rule at the end of 1837, prompting British officials to applaud the U.S. Army for calming tensions and demonstrating its government's support for the international state system. He then follows the gradual extension of U.S. sovereignty in the Southwest through military operations west of the Missouri River and along the Louisiana-Texas border from 1821 to 1838 and through dragoon expeditions onto the central and southern Plains between 1834 and 1845.
OCLC: 818143738
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