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"A magnificent achievement."--Journal of Military History
"Watson, the author of several highly regarded articles and chapters on the antebellum army, clearly knows his subject. Indeed, his learnedness, his deep knowledge of the antebellum army's operations and characters, and his years of serious thought about the arm's place in the early American republic leap off every page."--Journal of Southern History
"Impressive in scope and mastery of primary and secondary sources, Peacekeepers and Conquerors is an essential read for scholars of American expansion, Native American relations, military history, and the Jacksonian era."--Journal of American History
"Watson has done an excellent job in throwing light on this period, giving us a look at many notable officers now largely forgotten, and of the shaping of the army in which many men who later would win fame in Mexico and the civil War first saw military service."--:New York Military Affairs Symposium Review
"Brilliant and path-breaking. . . . Essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of the military profession in the United States, civil-military relations, the general role of the federal government on the frontiers, and the army's long-neglected but vitally important constabulary and nation-building mission."--William B. Skelton, author of An American Profession of Arms: The Army Officer Corps, 1784-1861
"This study places Watson at the forefront of military historians of this time period. I highly recommend it."--Timothy D. Johnson, author of Winfield Scott: The Quest for Military Glory
"Destined to become a classic study of civil-military relations."--James C. Bradford, editor of A Companion to American Military History
"Watson's outstanding volume definitely and comprehensively captures the development of the American military profession during the critical period before the Civil War."--Gene Allen Smith, author of Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s-1820s
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