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Early Campaigns of the Revolutionary War
Washington's Campaigns

Northern Campaigns of the Revolutionary War .

Southern Campaigns of the Revolutionary War

War of 1812 .

War with Mexico.

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Campaigns in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania
Grant's Campaigns in the West

Campaigns of Buell and Bragg .

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Sherman's March to the Sea and Hood's Retreat.
Cuba

The Campaign of Santiago de Cuba

The Campaign of Porto Rico

The Philippines

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The Operations in Luzon, 1898-1901

The Peking Relief Expedition, 1900

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THE MILITARY UNPREPAREDNESS OF THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER I

COLONIAL PERIOD

N The Seven Seas, by Rudyard Kipling, there is a poem. entitled "An American," which contains the following

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stanza:

"Enslaved, illogical, elate,

He greets th' embarrassed Gods, nor fears

To shake the iron hand of Fate

Or match with Destiny for beers."

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These lines, unconsciously perhaps, describe to perfection. the nonchalant attitude of the average American toward the United States Army and anything pertaining to the military service. The fruit of this indifference, which has persisted from the beginning of our national career until to-daywith the exception of a spasmodic interest manifested during threatened or actual war has been reaped in the most short-sighted, blundering military policy ever pursued in modern times by a great nation of supposedly intelligent people. As a matter of fact, there has existed no real military policy in this country, in the sense of the term as understood elsewhere, and, as a result, the United States was prevented by its weakness from attaining the front rank among the Powers of the world until the autumn of 1898. Even to-day, our international influence is largely due to causes other than our own strength causes such as the existing alliances between the leading nations which confer upon the United

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