Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical CorpsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical CorpsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880–1913
Author: Andrew WinrowPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317039947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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 life and opinions of major-general Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor, quartermaster-general in India
Author: Charlotte MacgregorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Life and Opinions of Major-General Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor, K.C.B., C.S.I., C.I.E., Quartermaster-General in India
Author: Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Boer War
Author: Thomas PakenhamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781841880143
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Originally published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1979, an illustrated narrative of the Boer War, written by the author of SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
The Boer War
Author: John GoochPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135271747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This collections of essays by leading British and South African scholars, looking at the Boer War, focuses on three aspects: how the British Military functioned; the role of the Boers, Afrikaners and Zulus; and the media presentation of the war to the public.
The Spectator
Author: South Africa and the Transvaal War
Author: Louis CreswickePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Saving Nelson Mandela
Author: Kenneth S. BrounPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199921032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The question was: would he hang? In 1963, when South Africa's apartheid government charged Nelson Mandela with planning its overthrow, most observers feared that he would be sentenced to death. But the support he and his fellow activists in the African National Congress received during his trial not only saved his life, but also enabled him to save his country. In Saving Nelson Mandela, South African law expert Kenneth S. Broun recreates the trial, called the "Rivonia" Trial after the Johannesburg suburb where police seized Mandela. Based upon interviews with many of the case's primary figures and portions of the trial transcript, Broun situates readers inside the courtroom at the imposing Palace of Justice in Pretoria. Here, the trial unfolds through a dramatic narrative that captures the courage of the accused and their defense team, as well as the personal prejudices that colored the entire trial. The Rivonia trial had no jury and only a superficial aura of due process, combined with heavy security that symbolized the apartheid government's system of repression. Broun shows how outstanding advocacy, combined with widespread public support, in fact backfired on apartheid leaders, who sealed their own fate. Despite his 27-year incarceration, Mandela's ultimate release helped move his country from the racial tyranny of apartheid toward democracy. As documented in this inspirational book, the Rivonia trial was a critical milestone that helped chart the end of Apartheid and the future of a new South Africa.