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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Garrisons"”.
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Leader Experiences of Limited Employment Terms at U.S. Army Garrisons Overseas
Many U.S. Army civilian employees who work for Installation Management Command Europe fall under a policy which limits their employment to five years overseas unless they have approval from higher headquarters. The policy, implementation of which varies across Army commands and other organizations …
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Violent Actors and Embedded Power: Exploring the Evolving Roles of Dons in Jamaica
… community in which he plays a leadership role. Garrisons in Jamaica have often emerged as neighborhoods that are don-ruled shadow versions of the official State. These are poor inner city communities characterized by homogeneous and, in some cases, over-voting patterns for one of Jamaica's two …
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Culture, Conflict, and Northern English Fortification in the British Civil Wars, Circa 1638–1652
The dissertation is a study of the fortress garrisons of Northern England during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It combines cultural and administrative methodologies to explore the subject, linking it to as many different areas of Civil War historiography as possible to demonstrate the centrality …
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I diplomi militari: una fonte epigrafica ufficiale per lo studio delle flotte provinciali romane
… documents for the study of the naval provincial garrisons in the Ist and IInd centuries A.D.. Problems deriving from diplomas as still imperfect proofs for a full reconstruction of the history of roman fleets have been registered. Epigraphic evidence has been also taken into account to describe …
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Completing the Circle around Rabaul: The Seizure of the Admiralties, February to May 1944.
… prong in New Guinea, by-passing large Japanese garrisons and the other in the northern Solomon Islands with the goal the isolation of the strong point at Rabaul.</p><p>The material is drawn primarily from U.S. Army records held by the National Archives at College Park, Maryland, records from the …
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Unit sizes in the Late Roman army
… do actually represent married quarters for tiny garrisons. A number of other factors need to be considered, such as the extent of the internal re-organisation of units, and of the practice of official records including "ghost' soldiers.
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The Irish Volunteers in north Co. Dublin, 1913-17
… and Richard Mulcahy and also with Dublin City garrisons such as at the General Post Office and the Mendicity Institute to name just two. They collectively fought hard and are now remembered in the 1916 Rolls of Honour housed at the National Museum of Ireland. Those who died are remembered by …
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Fending off feminization : erecting gender/ed boundaries and preserving masculinity in 1930s British fiction
… and iron/steel working) turned symbolic garrisons of imperial strength and power into derelict wastelands. London's consumerism in the form of cheap goods and escapist entertainment was thought to pacify and enfeeble the (male) inhabitants. These three pivotal events fueled apprehensions …
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OCCUPIED DORSET: AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXPERIENCE OF U.S. TROOPS 1942-44
… in Wiltshire in 1942 and secondly in various garrisons throughout Dorset between 1943 and 1944. Each stay was separated by a year of active duty in the European Theatre of Operations (ETO). During this time Britain gradually became more used to the Americans and developed ways to accommodate …
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Formidable genus armorum: the horse archers of the Roman Imperial Army
… as well, not only in war, but also as the border garrisons of Pannonia, Dacia, Africa, and the Levant. Chapter one discusses the equipment in use by horse archers. The bows in use were invariably compound recurved bows of eastern design. Other specialized archery equipment was also eastern in …
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Taking the war to Scotland and France : the supply and transportation of English armies by sea, 1320-60
… that ships played in the supply of armies and garrisons within both Scotland and France, as well as their military participation in the expeditions of the period. The English royal campaigns in Scotland between 1322 and 1360 will be investigated. Each campaign will be analysed individually and …
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The local dimensions of defence: the standing army and militia in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1649-1660
… The coast was protected by a series of fortifiet garrisons, the governors of which played a key role in coordinating the defence and security of the region. A uniform assessment was levied which provided a sound basis for the pay and supply of the standing forces. Part Ill: The standing army was …
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The warhorse and military service under Edward III
… of men who served in English royal armies and garrisons during the Middle Ages. These men - their careers in arms, their backgrounds, their peacetime lives - remain, if not wholly in shadow, then very much in the penumbra of history. So far, indeed, are we from a comprehensive study of those …
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Land based air power or aircraft carriers? The British debate about maritime air power in the 1960s
… the British need to maintain influence as the garrisons were being scaled down. The Royal Navy argued for replacement fleet carriers for their mobile seaborne strategy, while the Royal Air Force argued that land-based air power would be as effective and far less costly. By using this underlying …
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Butlers of the Mohawk Valley: Family Traditions and the Establishment of British Empire in Colonial New York
… It is manifest in Walter Butler’s career on the garrisons of the New York frontier, at Fort Hunter and Oswego. It is manifest in the type of wealth the Butlers amassed and the traditions passed down to Walter Butler’s sons. Lastly it is manifest in the part the John Butler played in the …
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Planning and Construction History of the Eight Columns, Anti-Mongol Stone Fortress in the Sichuan Theater at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty
… defense mountain fortress built by the frontier garrisons, and it was constructed by the Lijongsi army that retreated southward from the Qinling defense line in the early stages of the war. This fortress underwent a process of transformation from a pre-war mountain temple to a wartime mountain …
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«That Land Became Mine» Baktria, Northeastern Central Asia, the Teispid- Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-327 BCE)
… to control the surrounding steppes by means of garrisons located at strategic points in the oasis: this seems to further back hypotheses put forward by Briant regarding the strategic importance of the city as a stronghold of Achaemenid power in Central Asia (Maxwell-Jones 2015, Marquis 2018). …