Author: Sir Henry Hallam ParrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr ...
Author: Sir Henry Hallam ParrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Bookman
Author: The Coronation of Edward the Seventh
Author: John Edward Courtenay BodleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coronations
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
By His Majesty's Gracious Command, the Coronation of Edward the Seventh
Author: John Edward Courtenay BodleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coronations
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Recollections and Correspondence
Author: Sir Henry Hallam ParrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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A Tidy Little War
Author: William WrightPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752475843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In 1882, the British invaded Egypt in an audacious war that gave them control of the country, and the Suez Canal, for more than seventy years. In 'A Tidy Little War', William Wright gives the first full account of that hard-fought and hitherto neglected campaign, which was not nearly as 'tidy' as the British commander would later claim. Using unpublished documents and forgotten books, including the discovery of General Sir Garnet Wolseley's diaries, Wright highlights how the Egyptian War, climaxing in the dawn battle of Tel-el-Kebir, was altogether a close-run thing. These documents offer an intriguing perspective of the General's handling of the war and his relationship with his war staff. The war was the major combined services operation of the late Victorian era, it saw the Royal Navy sail into battle for the last time in its old glory and the book has the first full account of the Bombardment of Alexandria.
The Contemporary Review
Author: The Late Victorian Army, 1868-1902
Author: Edward M. SpiersPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719026591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880–1913
Author: Andrew WinrowPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317039939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horseback in the traditional manner of cavalry, they used horses primarily to move swiftly about the battlefield, where they would then dismount and fight on foot, thus anticipating the development of mechanised infantry tactics during the twentieth century. Yet despite this apparent foresight, the mounted infantry concept was abandoned by the British Army in 1913, just at the point when it may have made the transition from a colonial to a continental force as part of the British Expeditionary Force. Exploring the historical background to the Mounted Infantry, this book untangles the debates that raged in the army, Parliament and the press between its advocates and the supporters of the established cavalry. With its origins in the extemporised mounted detachments raised during times of crisis from infantry battalions on overseas imperial garrison duties, Dr Winrow reveals how the Mounted Infantry model, unique among European armies, evolved into a formalised and apparently highly successful organisation of non-cavalry mounted troops. He then analyses why the Mounted Infantry concept fell out of favour just eleven years after its apogee during the South African Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. As such the book will be of interest not only to historians of the nineteenth-century British army, but also those tracing the development of modern military doctrine and tactics, to which the Mounted Infantry provided successful - if short lived - inspiration.
The Colonial Office List for ...
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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