The "ever-victorious Army,"
Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 1868
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 1868
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Richard Joseph Smith
Publisher : Kto Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108024076
This 1868 work recounts an early success of the future Gordon of Khartoum, in China in 1863-1864.
Author : Jean Lang
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3849663779
Major General Charles George Gordon, also known as 'Chinese Gordon' or 'Gordon Pasha', was a British Army officer and administrator. He saw action in the Crimean War and made his military reputation in China, where he was placed in command of the "Ever Victorious Army", a force of Chinese soldiers led by European officers which was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion, regularly defeating much larger forces. This little illustrated book tell his story in a language comprehendible for children and youths.
Author : Ian Heath
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Armies
ISBN : 9781901543025
Ian Heath has assembled 183 line drawings and 39 photographs to illustrate the huge array of costumes and uniforms worn during this period. Coverage includes the Taipeng and Boxer rebellions, Formosa, the Mongols and Gordon's Ever Victorious Army. Ian Heath's accompanying text is one of the most coherent accounts available of Chinese history during this turbulent period. Includes extensive bibliography. All the volumes in this series have a high quality traditional gold-embossed cloth cover and no dust jacket.
Author : Jonathan Mallory House
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Armies
ISBN : 1428915834
Author : Louise Tythacott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 135162489X
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays—especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château of Fontainebleau—tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself.
Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Chris Mackowski
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1954547056
“An important contribution to Civil War scholarship, offering an engrossing portrait of these important campaigns . . . this reviewer recommends it highly.” —NYMAS Review The fall of Vicksburg in July 1863 fundamentally changed the strategic picture of the American Civil War, though its outcome had been anything but certain. Union general Ulysses S. Grant tried for months to capture the Confederate Mississippi River bastion, to no avail. A bold running of the river batteries, followed by a daring river crossing and audacious overland campaign, finally allowed Grant to pen the Southern army inside the entrenched city. The long and gritty siege that followed led to the fall of the city, the opening of the Mississippi to Union traffic, and a severance of the Confederacy in two. In Tennessee, meanwhile, the Union Army of the Cumberland brilliantly recaptured thousands of square miles while sustaining fewer than six hundred casualties. Commander William Rosecrans worried the North would “overlook so great an event because it is not written in letters of blood”—and history proved him right. The Tullahoma campaign has stood nearly forgotten compared to events along the Mississippi and in south-central Pennsylvania, yet all three major Union armies scored significant victories that helped bring the war closer to an end. The public historians writing for the popular Emerging Civil War blog, speaking on its podcast, or delivering talks at its annual Emerging Civil War Symposium in Virginia always present their work in ways that engage and animate audiences. Their efforts entertain, challenge, and sometimes provoke with fresh perspectives and insights born from years of working at battlefields, guiding tours, and writing for the wider Civil War community. The Summer of ’63: Vicksburg and Tullahoma is a compilation of some of their favorites, anthologized, revised, and updated, together with several original pieces. Each entry includes helpful illustrations. This important study, when read with its companion volume The Summer of ’63: Gettysburg, contextualizes the major 1863 campaigns in what arguably was the Civil War’s turning-point summer.