‘America in the Hands of a Professional Military’

Published April 20th, 2011 by Peter Kinder

Few of the Minute Men at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, had ever been regular soldiers. A number had served as militiamen along side British professionals in the…

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‘The Capital Levy’: Syme on Financiers & the Roman Revolution

Published November 24th, 2010 by Peter Kinder

[On Caesar Augustus’s overthrow of the Roman Republic and creation of the Principate:] The class of knights [the equestrians] … is the cardinal factor in the whole social, military and…

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