Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding KansasUniversity of Missouri Press, 2004 - 278 Seiten "Historians have written on "Bleeding Kansas" and on the frontier army as a constabulary force, but little scholarship exists on how the army performed its peacekeeping operations in the 1850s. In Peacekeeping on the Plains, Tony R. Mullis is one of the first scholars to detail the military concerns associated with peace enforcement in Kansas and the trans-Missouri West." "Between 1854 and 1856, the Franklin Pierce administration called upon the U.S. Army to conduct a series of peace operations in the newly formed Kansas and Nebraska territories. The army responded to the president's call by successfully completing a mission against the Lakota Sioux in 1855 and by aiding civil authorities in the imposition of peace among competing factions in Kansas during 1856." "Although these police duties were not always popular with the soldiers that conducted them, the purpose behind them remained constant - the maintenance of peace, order, and security. Given Americans' misgivings about a standing army and their limited expectations for it as a domestic peacekeeper, its use in this fashion during the 1850s was a delicate proposition." "By drawing on diverse sources, including official army correspondence, personal papers of key military and political leaders, and local accounts of army activities, Mullis shows how peace operations were conducted by the U.S. Army long before the second half of the twentieth century. He also presents a thorough analysis of the professional dilemmas confronted by army officers, as well as the delicate command and control issues associated with the different types of peace operations." "Mullis's assessment of the army's peacekeeping efforts in the mid-1850s offers a full understanding of the constraints and frustrations involved. Many of the dilemmas faced by the army in Kansas parallel those encountered in various spots around the globe today. |
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... Means and Political Ends: Expansion and Slavery Collide in Kansas, 1854–1856 35 3. Peace Enforcement: The Sioux Expedition of 1855 61 4. Peacemaking: Harney and the Peace of Fort Pierre 86 5. Conflicting Interests: Peace, Land, and ...
... Means and Political Ends: Expansion and Slavery Collide in Kansas, 1854–1856 35 3. Peace Enforcement: The Sioux Expedition of 1855 61 4. Peacemaking: Harney and the Peace of Fort Pierre 86 5. Conflicting Interests: Peace, Land, and ...
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... means would thus seem to be antithetical to what military history is all about. Yet the militaries of most nation-states have spent the majority of their existence in what most would describe as times of peace, though little ...
... means would thus seem to be antithetical to what military history is all about. Yet the militaries of most nation-states have spent the majority of their existence in what most would describe as times of peace, though little ...
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... means to establish peace, order, and security in volatile situations, but they were two of the most significant instances. The Sioux expedition marked the beginning of a cycle of punitive campaigns against Plains Indians that were ...
... means to establish peace, order, and security in volatile situations, but they were two of the most significant instances. The Sioux expedition marked the beginning of a cycle of punitive campaigns against Plains Indians that were ...
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... means avail- able to create an environment in which the slavery extension debate could be settled peaceably. The next six chapters explore how the American government used the army to achieve national and partisan political objectives ...
... means avail- able to create an environment in which the slavery extension debate could be settled peaceably. The next six chapters explore how the American government used the army to achieve national and partisan political objectives ...
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... means to impose peace, the Civil War might have erupted four years earlier. Regardless of what might have been, the use of the army as a peacekeeping force raised relevant and timeless questions concerning the function of the federal ...
... means to impose peace, the Civil War might have erupted four years earlier. Regardless of what might have been, the use of the army as a peacekeeping force raised relevant and timeless questions concerning the function of the federal ...
Inhalt
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35 | |
The Sioux Expedition of 1855 | 61 |
Harney and the Peace of Fort Pierre | 86 |
Peace Land and Speculation | 119 |
Peacekeeping and Command Control Communications | 153 |
Kansas on the Precipice of Civil War | 194 |
John Geary the Army | 220 |
Conclusion | 234 |
Epilogue | 245 |
Bibliography | 251 |
Index | 273 |
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1st sess 2nd sess 33rd Cong 34th Cong actions American army’s associated August authority Bleeding Kansas Brulé Buchanan citizens civil command complete page image Congress Cooke Davis's December Delaware Democrats Department election emigrants Executive Document 50 federal troops Fort Laramie Fort Leavenworth Fort Riley free staters Geary Geary's governor Harney Harney’s History House Executive Document Ibid Indian agents issue Jefferson Davis July Kansas-Nebraska Act KSHS Transactions Lakota land speculation Laramie Lawrence Leavenworth Lecompton legislature Louis Republican LRAGO Manypenny Marcy military force militia Missouri Montgomery Nebraska party Pawnee peace enforcement operations peace operations peacekeeping Pierce administration Pierce’s political popular sovereignty president pro-slavery protect Reeder Riley Roll sacking of Lawrence Secretary Senate Executive Document September serial settlers Shannon Sioux Sioux expedition slavery slavery extension Smith squatters telegram telegraph territorial tion Topeka Topeka Legislature treaty U.S. Army United Wakarusa War Washington West Wilson Shannon Woodson