German Influence on British Cavalry
Author : Erskine Childers
Publisher : London : Arnold
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Cavalry
ISBN :
Author : Erskine Childers
Publisher : London : Arnold
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Cavalry
ISBN :
Author : Erskine Childers
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : History
ISBN :
The author of this essay seeks to encourage innovative ideas for British military practices, particularly in the Cavalry force. They argue that the current system of relying on lances and swords is outdated and should be replaced with a new system based on rifles that is better suited for the country's needs. Additionally, the author advocates for breaking the habit of blindly following foreign models and instead creating a force that is specifically designed for the British people.
Author : Stephen Badsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351943189
A prevalent view among historians is that both horsed cavalry and the cavalry charge became obviously obsolete in the second half of the nineteenth century in the face of increased infantry and artillery firepower, and that officers of the cavalry clung to both for reasons of prestige and stupidity. It is this view, commonly held but rarely supported by sustained research, that this book challenges. It shows that the achievements of British and Empire cavalry in the First World War, although controversial, are sufficient to contradict the argument that belief in the cavalry was evidence of military incompetence. It offers a case study of how in reality a practical military doctrine for the cavalry was developed and modified over several decades, influenced by wider defence plans and spending, by the experience of combat, by Army politics, and by the rivalries of senior officers. Debate as to how the cavalry was to adjust its tactics in the face of increased infantry and artillery firepower began in the mid nineteenth century, when the increasing size of armies meant a greater need for mobile troops. The cavalry problem was how to deal with a gap in the evolution of warfare between the mass armies of the later nineteenth century and the motorised firepower of the mid twentieth century, an issue that is closely connected with the origins of the deadlock on the Western Front. Tracing this debate, this book shows how, despite serious attempts to ’learn from history’, both European-style wars and colonial wars produced ambiguous or disputed evidence as to the future of cavalry, and doctrine was largely a matter of what appeared practical at the time.
Author : Lord Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 18,56 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 : Jonathan Mallory House
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Armies
ISBN : 1428915834
Author : Erskine Childers
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 2018-09-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781726358941
German Influence On British Cavalry is a great book of military history.
Author : Erskine Childers
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781290847957
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Free Public Library of Jersey City
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
ISBN :
Author : Spencer Jones
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806189614
The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France in 1914, it prevailed against the German army because of its professionalism and tactical skill, strengths developed through hard lessons learned a dozen years earlier. In October 1899, the British went to war against the South African Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State, expecting little resistance. A string of early defeats in the Boer War shook the military’s confidence. Historian Spencer Jones focuses on this bitter combat experience in From Boer War to World War, showing how it crucially shaped the British Army’s tactical development in the years that followed. Before the British Army faced the Boer republics, an aura of complacency had settled over the military. The Victorian era had been marked by years of easy defeats of crudely armed foes. The Boer War, however, brought the British face to face with what would become modern warfare. The sweeping, open terrain and advent of smokeless powder meant soldiers were picked off before they knew where shots had been fired from. The infantry’s standard close-order formations spelled disaster against the well-armed, entrenched Boers. Although the British Army ultimately adapted its strategy and overcame the Boers in 1902, the duration and cost of the war led to public outcry and introspection within the military. Jones draws on previously underutilized sources as he explores the key tactical lessons derived from the war, such as maximizing firepower and using natural cover, and he shows how these new ideas were incorporated in training and used to effect a thorough overhaul of the British Army. The first book to address specific connections between the Boer War and the opening months of World War I, Jones’s fresh interpretation adds to the historiography of both wars by emphasizing the continuity between them.
Author : Major Andrew J. Risio
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1782898859
Impressed with the tactical lessons of the Boer War, the British Army reformed its doctrine and training from 1899 to 1914, deploying a combat ready force, the “Old Contemptibles” of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in 1914. Because of these changes, the BEF played a crucial role in Belgium and France in 1914. The lessons of the Boer War guided the British Army and its interwar reforms. The doctrine and training developed from 1902-1914 was a significant improvement over the pre-Boer War British colonial warfare tactics. With Haldane’s organizational reforms and Robert’s new doctrine, the British Army built the Old Contemptibles of the BEF. The battles of 1914 showed the BEF was the equal of any European contemporary in quality of its tactics and doctrine. The comparison of the BEF to the other combatants in 1914 does not stand in stark contrast. The BEF performed well but no better or worse than comparable German or French units did. What does stand in stark contrast is the BEF in 1914 when compared with the expedition to South Africa in 1899. The years of reform between these two expeditions were truly a crucible that built the Old Contemptibles.