Robert Major
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Claude était éminemment habile à converser. Car il écoutait. Il écoutait attentivement et pesamment. Il jaugeait les paroles qu'il entendait, et réfléchissait longuement avant de hasarder une réponse. Si longuement que le narrateur en est perplexe, au début. De toute évidence, il n'était pas de ces gens qui, selon La Bruyère, « parlent un moment avant que d'avoir pensé ».
Il y a donc un paradoxe : un livre de conversations avec quelqu'un...
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Le Témiscamingue québécois a créé un type humain particulier, fier, vaillant, d'une certaine verdeur dans ses propos, d'une bonhomie assez abrupte à l'occasion. Caractéristiques qui ne s'estompent pas quand ces gens changent de région, si ce n'est que pour traverser vers l'autre rive du lac Témiscamingue. Monsieur Terrien était du type. Situation classique : un vieux qui est bien prêt à raconter, un jeune assez astucieux qui veut bien...
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Que signifie prendre racine, s'insérer dans un espace, le faire ntre, le transformer à notre image et, en retour, devenir autre sous son influence? En somme, que signifie devenir « abitant»?
Le terme a longtemps été péjoratif chez nous: quasi-synonyme de personne inculte, rustre, ours mal dégrossi , le péquenaud des Français. À tort. C'est toute une aventure que celle de devenir habitant, aventure que nos aïeux ont menée à bien,...
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Vivre en français dans le moyen Nord ontarien : quelle course à obstacles ! Un livre qui décrit avec une authenticité remarquable ce que cela veut dire d'être Franco-Ontarien. Les remarques sur l'Université d'Ottawa, défenderesse d'une éducation universitaire franco-ontarienne, sont d'une grande pertinence et une salutaire leçon d'histoire. Comme quoi une vie, même « d'une étoffe ordinaire » dirait Montaigne, peut aussi être représentative...
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After his death, a public figure leaves behind an astonishing manuscript—an embarrassment to his godson, the executor of his estate. What should be done with these disconcerting essays, which touch on disparate topics, jumping from the iconoclastic to the ironic, from the moving to the provocative, from the highbrow to the eccentric, at times preposterous and ridiculous, but all fundamentally contradictory?
It is a difficult question to answer,...
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Que signifie prendre racine, habiter, un espace, le faire ntre, le transformer à notre image et, en retour, devenir autre sous son influence ? En somme, que signifie devenir « habitant » ?
Le terme a longtemps été péjoratif chez nous : quasi-synonyme de personne inculte, rustre, ours mal dégrossi ; le péquenaud des Français. À tort. C'est toute une aventure que celle de devenir habitant, aventure que nos aïeux ont menée à bien, de façon...
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Un vieux, un jeune ; un conteur, un auditeur ; des heures d'un travail routinier, propice aux histoires et aux réflexions. La table est mise pour ces courts essais anecdotiques.
Que peut bien raconter le concierge d'un évêché, dans le Témiscamingue ontarien des années soixante ?
Pas mal de choses, en vérité, quand il est un observateur sagace de la réalité qui l'entoure, quand il est amateur d'histoire régionale, quand il a un passé...
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Marse Robert' is one of the endearing nicknames by which General Robert E. Lee was called by his men. This book is the account of Robert Stiles' experience as a soldier during the Civil War. He traces his own story, giving personal significance to the battles fought and the time he spent under General Lee's command. Robert Stiles tells firsthand what a Confederate soldier experienced as he marched on and fought through great struggles and deprivation....
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One of the critical variables in the successful completion of a military campaign is the functioning of an army's command and control system. In the American Civil War, a commander's primary command and control tool was his staff. Large Civil War armies like the Army of Tennessee required significant numbers of staff personnel. Staffs existed at each level of command from regiment through the army level. Staff officers had responsibility in three...
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This study investigates the role that Engineer Operations played in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. A background study and description is made of the structure, composition, capability, and employment of engineer officers and units during the American Civil War. The Vicksburg Campaign is analyzed in detail to determine the contributions that Engineer Operations made to the Campaign's success. The Campaign is broken down into four...
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This study concerns an analysis of the Confederate defense of Vicksburg with respect to one of the nine principles of war, the principle of the offensive. The loss of Vicksburg in the American Civil War was a mortal blow to the Confederacy in that it split the south in two and resulted in the opening of the Mississippi River to the Union forces. During the Campaign for Vicksburg General Grant, leading a Union army engaged General Pemberton, commanding...
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This thesis is an analysis of General Van Cleve and his division to determine the proximate causes for their failure to withstand the brutal test of combat throughout the two-day battle. The thesis begins with a discussion of the importance of the study of war in order to draw out lessons which are still pertinent to today's officer. The thesis then briefly describes the weapons, tactics, organization, and staff available to a division commander during...
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This study examines insights into the state of morale of the Army of the Cumberland during the period of the Tullahoma and Chickamauga campaigns. The thesis covers the period from June through September 1863. The thesis focused on the organization and leadership of the Army of the Cumberland. It then examined morale as the whole of diverse factors, including national and individual factors. National factors were generally out of control of the army...
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The French Army corps during the Napoleonic era was a combined arms organization, designed as a self-sustaining combat unit which could operate independently from the rest of the army. One corps was designated as the advanced guard to the French army's main body and acted as the unit which would make first contact with the enemy's army. This corps developed the situation while other corps would attempt to maneuver to the rear of the enemy force and...
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Illustrated with 23 maps and plans of the campaign and engagements at Chickamauga. Probably the most unpredictable variable in the "Fog of War" next to leadership, is the command and control process, comprised of three components: organizations, process, and facilities. Organizations include the formulation of staffs by the commander to accomplish the mission. Incorporated in the organization of the staffs are the roles, responsibilities, and functions....
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This study is a historical analysis of the effectiveness of Union cavalry during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. In a campaign noted for the highly skilled maneuver conducted by General William Tecumseh Sherman, the effective employment of the cavalry was essential. The Union cavalry had the missions of providing security to the flanks of the army and protecting the supply lines by guarding the railroad and by striking against the...
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History is replete with examples of lost opportunities to decisively defeat an enemy's army on the field of battle. All too often, tactical success has not been followed by actions to ensure operational success. This failure may be attributable to a misunderstanding of the dynamics of operational encirclement. Two case studies highlight these dynamics. The Battles of the Falaise Gap in 1944 and the Ruhr Pocket in 1945 both illustrate the difficulties...
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Includes 6 maps and over 20 other illustrations The German attack on Poland precipitated World War II, making the Polish campaign one of particular significance to the student of the 1939-45 conflict. The lessons learned by the German Army in its operations in Poland were put to use in the later campaigns against the western Allies, the Balkan states, and the Soviet Union. Poland also formed the testing ground for new theories on the use of armored...
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The thesis is a historical analysis of Colonel John T. Wilder's infantry brigade in the Tullahoma and Chickamauga campaigns of the American Civil War. In 1863 General Rosecrans, commander of the Army of the Cumberland, authorized Wilder to mount the brigade on horseback and rearm it with Spencer repeating rifles, giving the brigade unsurpassed mobility and firepower. The thesis examines the mounting and rearming of the brigade, then examines the role...
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This monograph analyzes the leadership characteristics that suggest a rapid acceptance of changing conditions in warfare among senior leaders, and which leadership characteristics tend to suggest a more conservative approach. This conservative approach fails to recognize and adapt to the new emerging conditions. This research studied two World War I British leaders, General Sir Ivor Maxse and General Sir Hubert Gough, and compared and contrasted their...
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