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SUSTAINING THE ARNG
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19. Office of the Secretary of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, Department of Defense Fact Sheet:
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MR We Recommend
The Canadian
Theater, 1814
Richard V. Barbuto, U.S. Army Center
for Military History, Washington,
D.C., 2014, 60 pages, $8.00
T
he year 1814 would test whether the United States had learned
enough from the disappointments of the past eighteen months to
defeat the wave of British veterans that was about to reach North
America. President Madison and his cabinet understood only too well that,
if the United States was to win its war, victory would have to come quickly
before the full might of Britain arrived on America’s borders. To achieve
this end, the Army would need to be stronger. Congress attempted to expand the size of the Army by raising the
enlistment bonus from $40 to $124 and by increasing the authorized strength to 62,500 men. It also augmented
the numbers of regimental officers and noncommissioned officers to give regimental commanders more recruiters.
Despite these measures, Army strength rose only to approximately forty thousand men by the time active campaigning began in 1814. This brochure covers a number of battle ̰