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Harry M. WardPublication Details
BookSouthern Illinois University Press2006Availability
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George Washington’s Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army examines how justice was left to the overlapping duties of special army personnel and how an improvised police force imposed rules and regulations on the common soldier. He includes the roles of life guards, camp guards, quarter guards, picket men, and safe guards, whose responsibilities ranged from escorting the commander in chief, intercepting spies and stragglers, and protecting farmers from marauding soldiers to searching for deserters, rounding up unauthorized personnel, and looking for delinquents in local towns and taverns. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Washington, George, — 1732-1799 — Military leadership
- United States. — Continental Army — Military police — History
- United States. — Continental Army — Military life
- Military discipline — United States — History — 18th century
- Soldiers — United States — Social conditions — 18th century
- United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Social aspects
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Contents
- Preconditions
- The Common Soldier
- Military Justice
- The Supervisors
- Washington’s Life-Guard
- Generals’ Guards
- Camp and Quarter Guards
- Picket Men and Safeguards
- Temporary Police Patrols
- On the March
- Officer of Police
- Provost Marshal
- The Marechaussee Corps
- Corporal Punishment
- Drummers and Fifers
- The Executioners
ISBN
- 0809326884
- 9780809326884
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