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HST 315: Military History of the United States

Early Colonial Period

Politics & Society

Origins of the Colonists' Fear of a Standing Army:

Absolute Monarchy

Parliament: House of Commons & House of Lords

Taxation

  • "The Power of the Purse"
  • "Control of the Purse Strings"

Royal Governors

Colonial Legislatures

  • Governor's Council
  • Assembly

English Civil War, 1640s

  • Oliver Cromwell
  • New Model Army
  • The Commonwealth

Stuart Restoration

  • Glorious Revolution, 1688
  • Constitutional Monarchy
  • Declaration of Rights

 

Technology

Matchlock musket

Pike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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