Author: Edward Barrington DE FONBLANQUEPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Political and Military Episodes in the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century. Derived from the Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. John Burgoyne ... With Portrait, Illustrations and Maps
Author: Edward Barrington DE FONBLANQUEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Political and Military Episodes in the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Edward Barrington De FonblanquePublisher:
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Category : Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Edwards's Military Catalogue
Author: Francis Edwards (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The Dramatic Works of General John Burgoyne
Author: Hans GrafThe British Quarterly Review
Author: The British Quarterly Review
Author: Henry AllonPublisher:
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
“The” Athenaeum
Author: Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Journal At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army’s military tactics were tired and outdated, stultified after three decades of peace.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.
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