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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"court martial"”.
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Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman: Honour and Dishonour in the Court Martial Records of the Marines Ashore, 1783-1793
… a study of empirical evidence in the form of courts martial records, Admiralty letters and Marine Corps letters, newspapers, and other forms of contemporary literature, the chapters within this dissertation will highlight the ways in which marine officers defined themselves and each other in …
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Broken Promises: Rape, Race, and the Union Army
Through the use of Union courts-martial records, this paper will examine the ways in which black women who had been assaulted by white men were denied justice in military courts. Although the Union Army was often perceived of as an army representing freedom and higher moral purpose, the court …
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Black Enlisted Men in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Race, Citizenship, and Military Occupation, 1866-1930
… relies on underused sources—including court martial records and black veterans’ pension files—to examine the experiences of black soldiers in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands during the post-Civil War era. It focuses on soldiers’ cross-cultural encounters with the racially and ethnically …
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"An Army of Working Men:" Military Labor and the Construction of American Empire, 1865 to 1915
… draws on government reports, military records, court-martial testimonies, memoirs, letters, and newspapers. It examines the U.S.’s military labor regime in pre-statehood California, the Reconstruction South, the trans-Mississippi West, and the southern Philippines. Military labor, often …
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Ruin and Redemption: Losing and Regaining Honour in the Canadian Officer Corps, 1914—1945
… and Second World Wars. Using extensive general court martial records, archival documentation, and restricted personnel files, this study examines judicial sentences of cashiering and dismissal as well as administrative punishments used to deprive officers of their commissions for misconduct, …
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“Horatio Dawn” and “Invisibly somewhere between the two clauses”
… to violence; this was to assist him in beating a court-martial for excessive cruelty. It should be noted that during this voyage he killed Indigenous Australians. Following this, I look at Dampier’s effect on English literature, including the works of John Locke, Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe. …