Mnemonic irrelevance: I remember finding Emory Upton's "The Armies of Europe and Asia" absolutely essential when I was compiling a dataset of 19th-century armies median term of service for enlisted personnel. (In case anyone interested, available in archive.org, https://archive.org/details/armiesofasiaeuro00uptouoft/page/n3/mode/2up ) .
“I considered making a joke about ‘Fort Mel Gibson’, but decided against it.”
You should have made it. Remember though, its Fort Mel Gibson and Madeline Stowe.
Gallica is a rabbit-hole I could get so lost. Maybe I'll run across some of those still-lost new Lts on the land nav course.
Mock not the lost looeys. I, myself, did so well on the land navigation test that I was asked to give an encore performance.
Thank you.
This is a wonderful list, great idea to post it.
Mnemonic irrelevance: I remember finding Emory Upton's "The Armies of Europe and Asia" absolutely essential when I was compiling a dataset of 19th-century armies median term of service for enlisted personnel. (In case anyone interested, available in archive.org, https://archive.org/details/armiesofasiaeuro00uptouoft/page/n3/mode/2up ) .