Author: Alexander DiromPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A Narrative of the Campaign in India which Terminated the War with Tippoo Sultan, in 1792
Author: Alexander DiromPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A Narrative of the Campaign in India which Terminated the War with Tippoo Sultan, in 1792
Author: Alexander DiromPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A Narrative of the Campaign in India, which Terminated the War with Tippoo Sultan, in 1792, with Maps and Plans Illustrative of the Subject, and a View of Seringapatam
Author: Alexander DiromPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Wandering Army
Author: Huw J. DaviesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030026853X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe “Superb analysis.”—William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army’s military tactics were tired and outdated, stultified after three decades of peace. The army’s leadership was conservative, resistant to change, and unable to match new military techniques developing on the continent. Losses were cataclysmic and the force was in dire need of modernization—both in terms of strategy and in leadership and technology. In this wide-ranging and highly original account, Huw J. Davies traces the British Army’s accumulation of military knowledge across the following century. An essentially global force, British armies and soldiers continually gleaned and synthesized strategy from war zones the world over: from Europe to the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Davies records how the army and its officers put this globally acquired knowledge to use, exchanging information and developing into a remarkable vehicle of innovation—leading to the pinnacle of its military prowess in the nineteenth century.
The History of Nations
Author: Henry Cabot LodgeCornwallis
Author: Richard MiddletonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300265506
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years—the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland Charles, First Marquis of Cornwallis (1738–1805), was a leading figure in late eighteenth-century Britain. His career spanned the American War of Independence, Irish Union, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the building of the Second British Empire in India—and he has long been associated with the unacceptable face of Britain’s colonial past. In this vivid new biography, Richard Middleton shows that this portrait is far from accurate. Cornwallis emerges as a reformer who had deep empathy for those under his authority, and was clear about his obligation to govern justly. He sought to protect the population of Bengal with a constitution of written laws, insisted on Catholic emancipation in Ireland, and recognized the limitations of British power after the American war. Middleton reveals how Cornwallis’ rewarding of merit, search for economy, and elimination of corruption helped improve the machinery of British government into the nineteenth century.
Harlequin Empire
Author: David WorrallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317315480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment.
A Classified Catalogue of the Malta Garrison Library
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368734660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
A classified catalogue of the Malta garrison library. [With] Books received December 1840
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Author: Malta garrison librA Catalog of the Books Belonging to the Charleston Library Society
Author: Charleston Library Society (Charleston, S.C.)Publisher:
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Category : Proprietary libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description