{"id":1810,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1810"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"porch, douglas, 1944-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"PORCH, DOUGLAS, 1944-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor.  Born&#8211;  December 29, 1944, Tallahassee, Fla.  Parents&#8211;   Douglas and Jean (Lance) Porch.  Grew up in Anniston.  Married&#8211;  Francoise Lamoureux, July 27, 1978.  Children&#8211;  One.  Education&#8211;  University of the South, B.A., 1967; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, Ph.D., 1971; Ecole Normale Superieure, 1971-1972.  Served in the U.S. Army Reserve, 1967-1974.  Taught at University College of Wales in Aberystwyth; the Citadel in South Carolina, Mark Clark Professor of History. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors, Vol. 107, and the jacket to the Conquest of the Sahara.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Army and Revolution;  France, 1815-1848.  London;  Routledge &#038;                      Kegan Paul, 1974. <\/p>\n<p>     The Conquest of Morocco.  New York;  Knopf, 1983. <\/p>\n<p>     The Conquest of the Sahara.  New York;  Knopf, 1984. <\/p>\n<p>     The French Foreign Legion;  a Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force.       New York;  Harper\/Collins, 1991. <\/p>\n<p>     The March to the Marne;  the French Army, 1871-1914.  New York;  Cambridge      University Press, 1981. <\/p>\n<p>     The Portuguese Armed Forces and the Revolution.  Stanford, Calif.;  Hoover      Institution Press, 1977. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor. Born&#8211; December 29, 1944, Tallahassee, Fla. Parents&#8211; Douglas and Jean (Lance) Porch. Grew up in Anniston. Married&#8211; Francoise Lamoureux, July 27, 1978. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; University of the South, B.A., 1967; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, Ph.D., 1971; Ecole Normale Superieure, 1971-1972. Served in the U.S. Army Reserve, 1967-1974. Taught at University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}