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Invasion and Insurrection
Jeffrey M Dorwart
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Description for Invasion and Insurrection
Hardback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
This book seeks to discover when, why, and how Delaware Valley communities, between 1621, when the Dutch West India Company issued instructions for the security and defense of the Delaware River until 1815, as the region abandoned its Committee of Defense of the Delaware at the end of the War of 1812, first used military force to repel invasion in times of war and suppress insurrection in peacetime. It traces how these mid-Atlantic communities confronted constant threats from real or imagined enemies, invasion and insurrection from earliest seventeenth-century settlement and articulated ideas and built institutions for security, defense, and war. ... Read more
This book seeks to discover when, why, and how Delaware Valley communities, between 1621, when the Dutch West India Company issued instructions for the security and defense of the Delaware River until 1815, as the region abandoned its Committee of Defense of the Delaware at the end of the War of 1812, first used military force to repel invasion in times of war and suppress insurrection in peacetime. It traces how these mid-Atlantic communities confronted constant threats from real or imagined enemies, invasion and insurrection from earliest seventeenth-century settlement and articulated ideas and built institutions for security, defense, and war. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611491005
SKU
V9781611491005
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About Jeffrey M Dorwart
Jeffery M. Dorwart was professor of military, naval, and New Jersey history at Rutgers University.
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