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2. The advent of jointness during the gulf war: a 25-year retrospective

Author

Marquis, Christopher G., Dye, Denton, and Kinkead, Ross S.

Subjects
United States. Department of Defense, United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States. Air Force, United States. Navy, Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Military aspects, Military personnel -- Military aspects, Military and naval science
Abstract

It has been three decades since the passage of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986, a piece of legislation that changed how the Department of Defense (DOD) [...]

Published
2017

3. Casting the die at Edgehill: an inconclusive result to the first pitched battle of the English civil war augured a decade of bloody, seesaw conflict between the Royalists and Parliamentarians

Author

Marquis, Christopher G.

Subjects
Battle of Edgehill, 1642, Civil war -- History -- United Kingdom, Parliamentary government -- Military aspects -- History, Royalists -- Military aspects, History, Military and naval science
Abstract

By the summer of 1642 England's King Charles I was an exile in his own kingdom. In early January he had marched on the House of Commons to arrest five [...]

Published
2015

4. Judge Andrew Jackson, Presiding: long before his rise to national fame during the War of 1812, young Andrew Jackson, as lawyer, judge and legislator, helped shape the American frontier. He would take the skills, attitudes and quirks developed there all the way to the White House

Author

Marquis, Christopher G.

Subjects
Legislators -- Political aspects -- Political activity, Attorneys -- Political aspects -- Political activity, Government, History, Political activity, Political aspects
Abstract

The bear-sized man, on trial for mutilating a child's ears, stormed about the court, cursing out judge, jury and any man who would try to subdue him. Russell Bean, the [...]

Published
2006

5. RECKONING AT HORSESHOE BEND.

Author

MARQUIS, CHRISTOPHER G.

Abstract

The article discusses the Creek War, a series of campaigns by military commander Andrew Jackson against Creek Indians following the massacre of settlers at Fort Mims, Alabama. Indian chief Red Eagle led a force of Creek Indians known as Red Sticks to attack the fort. Tennessee governor William Blount assigned Jackson to lead militia against the Red Sticks. Despite the disintegration of the volunteer militia force, Jackson defeated the Red Sticks at Horseshoe Bend, Alabama.

Published
2010

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