Описание: In June 1864, General Ulysses Grant ordered his cavalry commander, Philip Sheridan, to conduct a raid to destroy the Virginia Central Railroad between Charlottesville and Richmond. Sheridan fell short of his objective when he was defeated by General Wade Hampton's cavalry in a two-day battle at Trevilian Station.The first day's fighting saw dismounted Yankees and Rebels engaged at close range in dense forest. By day's end, Hampton had withdrawn to the west. Advancing the next morning, Sheridan found Hampton dug in behind hastily built fortifications and launched seven dismounted assaults, each repulsed with heavy casualties. As darkness fell, the Confederates counterattacked, driving the Union forces from the field.Sheridan began his withdrawal that night, an ordeal for his men, the Union wounded and Confederate prisoners brought off the field and the hundreds of starved and exhausted horses that marked his retreat, killed to prevent their falling into Confederate hands.
Описание: An army, Lewis Mumford once observed, 'is a body of pure consumers' and it is logistics that feeds this body's insatiable appetite for men and materiel. Successful logistics - the transportation of supplies and combatants to battle - cannot guarantee victory, but poor logistics portends defeat. In Feeding Victory, Jobie Turner asks how technical innovation has affected this connection over time and whether advances in technology, from the railroad and the airplane to the nuclear weapon and the computer, have altered both the critical relationship between logistics and warfare and, ultimately, geopolitical dynamics.Covering a span of three hundred years, Feeding Victory focuses on five distinct periods of technological change, from the preindustrial era to the information age. For each era Turner presents a case study: the campaign for Lake George from 1755 to 1759, the Western Front in 1917, the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, the Battle of Stalingrad from 1942 to 1943, and the Battle of Khe Sanh in 1968. In each of these cases the logistics of the belligerents were at their limit because of geography or the vast material needs of war. With such limits, the case studies both give a clear accounting of the logistics of the period, particularly with respect to the mode of transportation - whether air, land, or sea - and reveal the inflection points between success and failure.What are the continuities between eras, Turner asks, and what can these campaigns tell us about the relationship of technology to logistics and logistics to geopolitics? In doing so, Turner discovers just how critical the biological needs of the soldiers on the battlefield prove to be; in fact, they overwhelm firepower in their importance, even in the modern era. His work shows how logistics aptly represents technological shifts from the enlightenment to the dawn of the twenty-first century and how, in our time, ideas have come to trump the material forces of war.
Have you always wanted to learn about the great Inca Empire, but your schoolteachers refuse to listen? Are you confused between Inca, Aztec, and Maya? Do you want to learn how the Inca people were unique from their Mesoamerican predecessors? Could you even draw the Inca Empire on a map?
All this and more will be covered within the pages of Incas: A Comprehensive Look at the Largest Empire in the Americas.
Their history is a relatively short, but vibrant and dynamic story with an ending so tragic, your favorite fantasy author couldn't have come up with it himself. So little is taught of the native cultures of the Western Hemisphere in schools today, as curriculums lean on the exploits of Rome and Britain.
If you've always wanted to learn more about the great people that once ruled the mountains of Peru and Chile, this is the book for you. If you're tired of reading about stuffy old white men, this is the book for you. If you're interested in history but have a hard time understanding the textbooks, this is the book for you This simple but comprehensive look takes you across the Inca Empire from beginning to end. Everything you need to know about those great people is right past the front page.
From its founding in the 1300s, the Inca Empire lasted roughly twelve generations. In just that time, it accomplished what other civilizations took centuries to achieve. Learn about the effective expansionist policy of the Inca, and how they maximized profits by leaning on clever marketing tactics instead of war.
Learn how downfall came at the hands of the Spanish conquerors, who came with guns and steel and plague. Like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, the invaders were an extinction-level event that the Inca had no way of preparing for. See how unmatched they were in strategy, technology, and how their far superior numbers meant nothing in the end.
Learn what remains of their great civilization, what influence they had over the following course of history and See how they even had an effect on the soda you drink...
Inside you will find:
How an empire grew from such humble, and hostile, beginnings
The geographic location of the Empire
The incredible natural odds the Incan people overcame
Society, government, and other everyday practices
An in-depth look at the Incan gods
The terrible Civil War
The Conquistadors
And more...
So click 'Add to Cart' and begin your journey into the past. By the time you've finished, you'll be booking that trip to Machu Picchu you've always wanted. And what's more, you will be going armed with knowledge and respect of the great people who built the city, and who once ruled the mountains like gods. Don't wait another moment to enjoy from this information - Get your copy of Incas right away
Описание: Immigrants make up the largest proportion of federal prisoners in the United States, incarcerated in a vast network of more than two hundred detention facilities. This book investigates when detention became a centerpiece of U.S. immigration policy. Detain and Punish reveals why the practice was reinstituted in 1981 after being halted for several decades and how the system expanded to become the world’s largest immigration detention regime.
Have you always wanted to learn about the great Inca Empire, but your schoolteachers refuse to listen? Are you confused between Inca, Aztec, and Maya? Do you want to learn how the Inca people were unique from their Mesoamerican predecessors? Could you even draw the Inca Empire on a map?
All this and more will be covered within the pages of Incas: A Comprehensive Look at the Largest Empire in the Americas.
Their history is a relatively short, but vibrant and dynamic story with an ending so tragic, your favorite fantasy author couldn't have come up with it himself. So little is taught of the native cultures of the Western Hemisphere in schools today, as curriculums lean on the exploits of Rome and Britain.
If you've always wanted to learn more about the great people that once ruled the mountains of Peru and Chile, this is the book for you. If you're tired of reading about stuffy old white men, this is the book for you. If you're interested in history but have a hard time understanding the textbooks, this is the book for you This simple but comprehensive look takes you across the Inca Empire from beginning to end. Everything you need to know about those great people is right past the front page.
From its founding in the 1300s, the Inca Empire lasted roughly twelve generations. In just that time, it accomplished what other civilizations took centuries to achieve. Learn about the effective expansionist policy of the Inca, and how they maximized profits by leaning on clever marketing tactics instead of war.
Learn how downfall came at the hands of the Spanish conquerors, who came with guns and steel and plague. Like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, the invaders were an extinction-level event that the Inca had no way of preparing for. See how unmatched they were in strategy, technology, and how their far superior numbers meant nothing in the end.
Learn what remains of their great civilization, what influence they had over the following course of history and See how they even had an effect on the soda you drink...
Inside you will find:
How an empire grew from such humble, and hostile, beginnings
The geographic location of the Empire
The incredible natural odds the Incan people overcame
Society, government, and other everyday practices
An in-depth look at the Incan gods
The terrible Civil War
The Conquistadors
And more...
So click 'Add to Cart' and begin your journey into the past. By the time you've finished, you'll be booking that trip to Machu Picchu you've always wanted. And what's more, you will be going armed with knowledge and respect of the great people who built the city, and who once ruled the mountains like gods. Don't wait another moment to enjoy from this information - Get your copy of Incas right away
