An Apprenticeship in Arms

Zusatztext A valuable study of the days of the formation of a Standing Army. Klappentext This book explores the ways in which the diverse military experiences at home and abroad of the British and Irish people during the seventeenth century introduced modern military theory and practice into the Three Kingdoms of the British Isles and shaped the embryonic British army that emerged during the reign of the soldier-king William III. Zusammenfassung Based upon a wide range of historical and literary sources, An Apprenticeship in Arms is a scholarly study of the military experiences of peers and gentlemen from the British Isles who volunteered to fight in the religious and dynastic wars of mainland Europe, as well as the ordinary men who were impressed to serve in the ranks from the time of the English intervention in the Dutch war of independence in 1585 to the death of the soldier-king William III in 1702. This apprenticeship in arms exposed these men to the technological innovations of the military revolution, laid the foundations for a fledgling professional officer class based upon merit and established a fund of military expertise. This remilitarization of aristocratic culture and society was completed by 1640, and provided numerous experienced military officers for the various armies of the civil wars and, subsequently, for the embryonic British army after William III invaded and conquered the British Isles and committed the Three Kingdoms to the armed struggle against Louis XIV during the Nine Years War.Conflicts between amateur aristocrats and so-called 'soldiers of fortune' led to continuing debates about the relative merits of standing armies and a select militia; the individual pursuit of honour and glory by such amateurs also obscured the more rational military and political objectives of the modern state, subverted military discipline, and delayed the process of the professionalization of the officer corps of the British army. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. A Military Apprenticeship 1585-1640 1: The Irish Wars 2: The Low Countries Wars 3: British Manpower and the States' Army 4: Recruiting in the British Isles for Mainland European Armies 5: Military and Naval Expeditions of the 1620s 6: The campus martius: The Domestic School of War II. The Experience of Civil War 1640-1660 7: Mercenaries and Gentlemen 8: Raising and Organizing Standing Armies 9: Atrocity, Plunder, and Discipline 10: The Civil Wars in Ireland and Scotland III. The Decay of a Military Tradition 1660-1688 11: Standing Armies in the Three Kingdoms 12: The Decay of the Militia 13: English, Irish, and Scots in Mainland European Armies IV. The Recovery of a Military Tradition 1688-1702 14: The Descent on England 15: The Williamite Conquest of Scotland and Ireland 16: The Nine Years War 17: Conclusion: Military Professionalism Select Bibliography Index ...

A valuable study of the days of the formation of a Standing Army.

Klappentext
This book explores the ways in which the diverse military experiences at home and abroad of the British and Irish people during the seventeenth century introduced modern military theory and practice into the Three Kingdoms of the British Isles and shaped the embryonic British army that emerged during the reign of the soldier-king William III.


Zusammenfassung
Based upon a wide range of historical and literary sources, An Apprenticeship in Arms is a scholarly study of the military experiences of peers and gentlemen from the British Isles who volunteered to fight in the religious and dynastic wars of mainland Europe, as well as the ordinary men who were impressed to serve in the ranks from the time of the English intervention in the Dutch war of independence in 1585 to the death of the soldier-king William III in 1702. This apprenticeship in arms exposed these men to the technological innovations of the military revolution, laid the foundations for a fledgling professional officer class based upon merit and established a fund of military expertise. This remilitarization of aristocratic culture and society was completed by 1640, and provided numerous experienced military officers for the various armies of the civil wars and, subsequently, for the embryonic British army after William III invaded and conquered the British Isles and committed the Three Kingdoms to the armed struggle against Louis XIV during the Nine Years War. Conflicts between amateur aristocrats and so-called 'soldiers of fortune' led to continuing debates about the relative merits of standing armies and a select militia; the individual pursuit of honour and glory by such amateurs also obscured the more rational military and political objectives of the modern state, subverted military discipline, and delayed the process of the professionalization of the officer corps of the British army.

Inhalt
I. A Military Apprenticeship 1585-1640
1: The Irish Wars
2: The Low Countries Wars
3: British Manpower and the States' Army
4: Recruiting in the British Isles for Mainland European Armies
5: Military and Naval Expeditions of the 1620s
6: The campus martius: The Domestic School of War
II. The Experience of Civil War 1640-1660
7: Mercenaries and Gentlemen
8: Raising and Organizing Standing Armies
9: Atrocity, Plunder, and Discipline
10: The Civil Wars in Ireland and Scotland
III. The Decay of a Military Tradition 1660-1688
11: Standing Armies in the Three Kingdoms
12: The Decay of the Militia
13: English, Irish, and Scots in Mainland European Armies
IV. The Recovery of a Military Tradition 1688-1702
14: The Descent on England
15: The Williamite Conquest of Scotland and Ireland
16: The Nine Years War
17: Conclusion: Military Professionalism
Select Bibliography
Index

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