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This book describes the history of the British cavalry in detail, running up to World War I.
Author : Lord Anglesey
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 1993-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780436273216
This book describes the history of the British cavalry in detail, running up to World War I.
Author : The Marquess of Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1993-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1473815010
In the seventh, and second last, volume in t his historical work, Lord Anglesey shows how superior the Br itish cavalry was compared to those of the French and German s. He concentrates on the first five months of the War. '
Author : George Charles Henry Victor Paget Marquess of Anglesey
Publisher :
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : George Charles Henry Victor Paget Marquis of Anglesey
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Cavalry
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Author : Lord Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 1993-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0436273217
This book describes the history of the British cavalry in detail, running up to World War I.
Author : Lord Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 1993-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780436273216
Author : The Marquess of Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 1993-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1473814987
In-depth coverage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the numerous colonial campaigns of the period.
Author : Lord Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 1993-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1473814995
In-depth coverage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the numerous colonial campaigns of the period.
Author : Ian F. W. Beckett
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0806162015
“You offer yourself to be slain,” General Sir John Hackett once observed, remarking on the military profession. “This is the essence of being a soldier.” For this reason as much as any other, the British army has invariably been seen as standing apart from other professions—and sometimes from society as a whole. A British Profession of Arms effectively counters this view. In this definitive study of the late Victorian army, distinguished scholar Ian F. W. Beckett finds that the British soldier, like any other professional, was motivated by considerations of material reward and career advancement. Within the context of debates about both the evolution of Victorian professions and the nature of military professionalism, Beckett considers the late Victorian officer corps as a case study for weighing distinctions between the British soldier and his civilian counterparts. Beckett examines the role of personality, politics, and patronage in the selection and promotion of officers. He looks, too, at the internal and external influences that extended from the press and public opinion to the rivalry of the so-called rings of adherents of major figures such as Garnet Wolseley and Frederick Roberts. In particular, he considers these processes at play in high command in the Second Afghan War (1878–81), the Anglo-Zulu War (1879), and the South African War (1899–1902). Based on more than thirty years of research into surviving official, semiofficial, and private correspondence, Beckett’s work offers an intimate and occasionally amusing picture of what might affect an officer’s career: wealth, wives, and family status; promotion boards and strategic preferences; performance in the field and diplomatic outcomes. It is a remarkable depiction of the British profession of arms, unparalleled in breadth, depth, and detail.
Author : Ian Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 147281830X
Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880–81 and 1899–1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers' commandos. The nature of warfare across these campaigns was shaped by the realities of the terrain and by Boer fighting techniques. Independent and individualistic, the Boers were not professional soldiers but a civilian militia who were bound by the terms of the 'Commando system' to come together to protect their community against an outside threat. By contrast the British Army was a full-time professional body with an established military ethos, but its over-dependence on conventional infantry tactics led to a string of Boer victories. This fully illustrated study examines the evolving nature of Boer military techniques, and contrasts them with the British experience, charting the development of effective British mounted tactics from the first faltering steps of 1881 through to the final successes of 1902.