Commanders In Chief The American Presidents And Their Armed Forces By Ian Uys Ebook

COMMANDERS IN CHIEF

The American Presidents and their Armed Forces

by Ian UysApprox 500 pages in ebook (pdf) format   First published 30 November 2016 -Just in time for Christmas

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In the United States the elected presidents are the commanders in chief of all the armed forces. Some of them had been generals, yet most had limited military experience. We read of George Washington who survived an Indian massacre, then years later of being in the sites of a gallant British officer's musket - who regarded it as unsporting to shoot him in the back.
  After Madison fled the White House, which the British then burnt, they bombarded Fort McHenry but failed to force its surrender. An observer, Francis Scott Henry celebrated the glorious spectacle with a song 'The Star Spangled Banner' the later national anthem.

During the Spanish-American War Teddy Roosevelt led the charge of the Rough Riders near San Juan, for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour - 100 years later. His eldest son also won the medal posthumously - for D Day's Omaha Beach.

George Bush was the youngest fighter pilot in the Pacific and narrowly escaped being captured and executed by the Japanese. Jack Kennedy towed a wounded sailor to safety through those waters by clenching the man's lifejacket strap in his mouth. In the same theatre Lyndon Johnson earned the Silver Star during a bombing mission.

We learn about their military exploits, and those of their relatives, and the decisions they had to make to win or avert wars despite numerous chronicled assassination attempts.

In more recent times the role of the president in combating terrorism, piracy and numerous acts of kidnapping and mayhem is recorded. The relationship between the president and the armed forces is shown to be a tenuous one at times.

The glossary enlivens, informs and shows what the commanders in chief had in common through the years. From another perspective the book deals with much of the military history of the United States.

The Author
Ian is a descendant of Knysna's first settler of 1770. He attended Muir College in Uitenhage and then served in the Air Force Gymnasium. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a B Comm and also captained its boxing team. He was Selected as South Africa's first Commerce exchange student where he worked and studied in the USA then returned to qualify as a chartered accountant.

He lives with his family in Knysna. Ebook will be sent by email. It is available in PDF (Adobe) MOBI, (Kindle), and EPUB (generic ebook reader) format.

  
TABLE OF CONTENTS
{Acknowledgements}
{Preface}
The Presidents
1 {George Washington} 1789-1797
2 {John Adams} 1797-1801
3 {Thomas Jefferson} 1801-1809
4 {James Madison} 1809-1817
5 {James Monroe} 1817-1825
6 {John Quincy Adams} 1825-1829
7 {Andrew Jackson} 1829-1837
8 {Martin van Buren} 1837-1841
9 {William Henry Harrison} 1841-1841 *
10 {John Tyler} 1841-1845
11 {James R Polk} 1845-1849
12 {Zachary Taylor} 1849-1850 *
13 {Millard Fillmore} 1850-1853
14 {Franklin Pierce} 1853-1857
15 {James Buchanan} 1857-1861
16 {Abraham Lincoln} 1861-1865 +
16a {Jefferson Davis} 1861-1865
17 {Andrew Johnson} 1865-1869
18 {Ulysses S Grant} 1869-1877
19 {Rutherford B Hayes} 1877-1881
20 {James A Garfield} 1881-1881 +
21 {Chester A Arthur} 1881-1885
22 {Grover Cleveland} 1885-1889
23 {Benjamin Harrison} 1889-1893
24 {Grover Cleveland} 1893-1897
25 {William McKinley} 1897-1901 +
26 {Theodore Roosevelt} 1901-1909
27 {William Howard Taft} 1909-1913
28 {Woodrow Wilson} 1913-1921
29 {Warren G Harding} 1921-1923 +
30 {Calvin Coolidge} 1923-1929 *
31 {Herbert Hoover} 1929-1933
32 {Franklin D Roosevelt} 1933-1945 *
33 {Harry