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3.00 Credits
This course examines the nature, significance, and consequences of the Hundred Years' War (ca 1337 to 1453) between England and France. It examines the strategies, organization, weaponry, and leadership of the English and French armies during military operations, as well as the interplay of tactics and topography at the decisive battles of Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt.
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3.00 Credits
A study of one of the most significant wars in American and world history: the French and Indian War in North America, or the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) as it was known in a global setting. The war pitted Britain, Prussia, and the Thirteen Colonies against France, Austria, Russia, and Spain in a global contest for imperial domination stretching from America to the Caribbean, Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa, India, and the Philippines. In America, Indian nations defined much of the character of the war and profoundly influenced the war's origins, military character, and outcomes.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the origins and consequences of the American Revolution, paying particular attention to the War for American Independence (1775-1783); comparative leadership of American and British forces; the salient role of George Washington and his definition of the Continental Army; the principal campaigns and battles of the war; the naval and international diplomatic aspects of the war; irregular warfare involving rebels, loyalists, and Indians; and the relationships between the Revolution and broader patterns of civil-military relations.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the Napoleonic Wars, including those of the French Revolution, from a distinctly military perspective. Although the causes, ideologies, and mentalities of the revolutionary era will be explored, the class will emphasize the study of the conduct of war from the strategic, operational, and tactical perspectives with the goal of understanding how these wars, and Napoleon himself, shaped the future conduct of warfare. Attention will also be devoted to logistics and the experience of war among the soldiery of the period.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the military history of the Civil War. In so doing the course will discuss those factors and people that influenced and shaped the conduct of war in the middle of the nineteenth century. Although there will be an emphasis upon strategic, operational, and tactical military history, the course will also explore the experience of combat, logistics, technological innovation, POWs, and the importance of naval operations upon the outcome of the war.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the patterns of Native American warfare from the advent of European colonization in the 1500s to the end of organized Indian military resistance in the United States in the 1890s. It particularly examines the specific wars that Native nations waged against European colonizers as well as American settlement expansion. It also emphasizes comparative history, examining global patterns of warfare involving western or colonial powers and non-western indigenous peoples.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the history of World War I from its causation to the consequences of the Armistice in 1918. It will focus on all military aspects of the war from the strategic to tactical. It will examine the impact of nationalism and the rise of modern total war. The experience of warfare as well as the profound technological innovations of the conflict will also receive significant attention.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the European and African theaters of World War II from the 1930s to 1945. The class will examine the causes of the conflict and the course of its military campaigns. The course will devote attention to air, land, and naval combat. The class will ultimately place the events and consequences of the war in the context of the military, diplomatic, and political history of the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the Pacific theater of World War II from the 1930s to 1945. The class will examine the causes of the conflict and the course of its military campaigns. The course will devote attention to air, land, and naval combat. The class will ultimately place the events and consequences of the war in the context of the military, diplomatic, and political history of the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of resistance movements and their significance to Allied victory in World War II. In Europe and Asia, political and religious groups waged a war of resistance as partisans or guerillas against Nazi or Japanese military forces. Their patterns of resistance included irregular warfare, espionage, media, and sabotage.
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