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vii List of Illustrations viii Preface xi chapter one: Defeat and victory in the ohio valley 1 chapter two: Sword of the nation 20 chapter three: Sharpening the nation’s Sword 39 chapter four: Asserting national Sovereignty 57 chapter five: the Wars of indian Removal 78 chapter six Agent of Manifest Destiny 96 chapter seven: Constabularies in blue 118 chapter eight: frontier Regulars and the Collapse of the Union 143 chapter nine: Civil Wars in the borderlands 163 chapter ten: the Regulars Return 188 chapter eleven: testing the Peace Policy 216 chapter twelve: Conquest of a Continent 238 epilogue: the Long frontier 268 Abbreviations 277 Notes 279 Bibliography 317 Index 351 +conTenTs ∂ ...

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