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Book Synopsis Bengal Cavalry Regiments 1857–1914 by : Ronald Harris
Download or read book Bengal Cavalry Regiments 1857–1914 written by Ronald Harris and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1979-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British connection with India dates from the formation of the Honourable East India Company in the 17th century, when a military force was needed to protect Britain's valuable trading interests. By 1914, there were over 40 regiments of Indian cavalry, all of which were commanded by British officers. This book provides an overview of the component cavalry regiments in the years between the Great Mutiny of 1857 and the outbreak of World War I. Numerous contemporary photographs and eight colour plates offer a rare glimpse into the distinctive uniforms of the cavalry.
Book Synopsis Hodson's Horse, 1857-1922 by : Francis Gordon Cardew
Download or read book Hodson's Horse, 1857-1922 written by Francis Gordon Cardew and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Sketch of the Services of the Bengal Native Army to the Year 1895 by : Francis Gordon Cardew
Download or read book A Sketch of the Services of the Bengal Native Army to the Year 1895 written by Francis Gordon Cardew and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Victorians at War, 1815-1914 by : Harold E. Raugh Jr.
Download or read book The Victorians at War, 1815-1914 written by Harold E. Raugh Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-10-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the strength of the British Army from 1815 to 1914, this groundbreaking reference presents the most recent research on the most significant wars, campaigns, battles, and leaders. The Victorians at War*, 1815–1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History surveys the major wars, campaigns, battles, and expeditions of the British Army as well as its weaponry, tactics, and all other aspects of its operations from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the dawn of World War I. Containing numerous maps depicting various theaters of war, this all-encompassing volume explains why the numerous military operations took place and what the results were. Biographies reveal fascinating facts about British and Indian Army officers and other ranks, while other entries deal with recruitment, training, education and literacy, uniforms, equipment, pay and conditions, social backgrounds of the soldiers, diseases and wounds they fell victim to, and much more. This volume is indispensable to those wanting to gain information about the British Army during this remarkable imperial era.
Book Synopsis Osprey Men-At-Arms by : Martin Windrow
Download or read book Osprey Men-At-Arms written by Martin Windrow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osprey Men-at-Arms: A Celebration is a very special volume detailing some of the wonderful artwork that has graced Osprey's renowned Men-at-Arms series over the last forty years. Beautifully presented in luxurious cloth, embossed and foil blocked, with head and tails bands and a ribbon bookmark, the collection contains the most treasured illustrations from the vast archives of this respected series and is a classic, collectable item for all military history enthusiasts.
Book Synopsis World Military History Bibliography by : Barton Hacker
Download or read book World Military History Bibliography written by Barton Hacker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preclassical and indigenous nonwestern military institutions and methods of warfare are the chief subjects of this annotated bibliography of work published 1967–1997. Classical antiquity, post-Roman Europe, and the westernized armed forces of the 20th century, although covered, receive less systematic attention. Emphasis is on historical studies of military organization and the relationships between military and other social institutions, rather than wars and battles. Especially rich in references to the periodical literature, the bibliography is divided into eight parts: (1) general and comparative topics; (2) the ancient world; (3) Eurasia since antiquity; (4) sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania; (5) pre-Columbian America; (6) postcontact America; (7) the contemporary nonwestern world; and (8) philosophical, social scientific, natural scientific, and other works not primarily historical.
Book Synopsis The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 by : Sharon Murphy
Download or read book The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 written by Sharon Murphy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 considers the history of the libraries that the East India Company and Regular Army respectively established for soldiers during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon a wide range of material, including archival sources, official reports, and soldiers’ memoirs and letters, this book explores the motivations of those who were responsible for the setting up and/or operation of the libraries, and examines what they reveal about attitudes to military readers in particular and, more broadly, to working-class readers – and leisure – at this period. Murphy’s study also considers the contents of the libraries, identifying what kinds of works were provided for soldiers and where and how they read them. In so doing, The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 affords another way of thinking about some of the key debates that mark book history today, and illuminates areas of interest to the general reader as well as to literary critics and military and cultural historians.
Download or read book Saluki written by Brian Patrick Duggan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the oldest known breeds of domesticated dogs, the Saluki traveled throughout the Middle East with desert tribes, who valued the dogs for their ability to hunt gazelles. Famously painted on the walls of the Pharaohs' tombs, the Salukis' history intrigued English dog enthusiasts who were instrumental in popularizing the breed and importing it to Europe and the United States in the early 20th century. This book tells the story of those who brought the Saluki to the West, most notably Florence Amherst, who discovered the dogs while in Egypt and went on to breed 50 litters. Other world travelers who fell under the Salukis' spell included Lady Anne Blunt, Austen Layard and Gertrude Bell. Also covered are lesser-known Saluki aficionados, mainly military officers who hunted with their hounds in Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt and sought to replicate that experience at home.
Book Synopsis Hodson of Hodson's horse by : William Stephen Raikes Hodson
Download or read book Hodson of Hodson's horse written by William Stephen Raikes Hodson and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research by : Society for Army Historical Research (London, England)
Download or read book Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research written by Society for Army Historical Research (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Byzantine Armies 886–1118 by : Ian Heath
Download or read book Byzantine Armies 886–1118 written by Ian Heath and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1979-07-05 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantines had a remarkably sophisticated approach to politics and military strategy. Unlike most of their contemporaries, they learnt very early in their history that winning a battle did not necessarily win a war, and they frequently bought off their enemies with treaties and bribes rather than squander men and matériel in potentially fruitless campaigns. The Byzantine army of the 10th and early 11th centuries, at the height of its power and efficiency, was the best-organised, best-trained, best-equipped and highest-paid in the known world. This splendid book by Ian Heath examines the Byzantine Armies from 886-1118, including the lusty, hard-fighting, hard-drinking 'barbarian' Varangian guard.
Book Synopsis History of the 19th King George's Own Lancers, Formerly 18th King George's Own Lancers and 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse), Amalgamated in 1921 by : Sir Havelock Hudson
Download or read book History of the 19th King George's Own Lancers, Formerly 18th King George's Own Lancers and 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse), Amalgamated in 1921 written by Sir Havelock Hudson and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixty years covered by this wide-ranging unit history encompassed the high noon and final sunset of both the British Army's proud cavalry arm and the Indian army of which the 19th Lancers were such an ornament. The 19th Lancers were raised in India in 1858 in the aftermath of the Great Mutiny. In the 1870s it fought in the second Afghan war; was on garrison duty in India in the 1880s; served on the ever-restive North West Frontier in the 1890s. With the outbreak of the Great War, the regiment was rushed to France, where, after the formation of the trench lines, it fought as infantry - including the battle of the Somme in 1916. In 1917 it fought at Arras and Cambrai, and ended the war in Egypt and Palestine where it took part in the advance on Damascus. This is a valuable and rare official account of an Indian regiment in the Great War, and is laced with vivid vignettes of the Indian army's social life in peace and war. There are photos and maps and numerous appendices; awards; and Rolls of Honour.
Book Synopsis Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry 1880–1918 by : Stephen Badsey
Download or read book Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry 1880–1918 written by Stephen Badsey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Foreign Volunteers of the Wehrmacht 1941–45 by : Carlos Caballero Jurado
Download or read book Foreign Volunteers of the Wehrmacht 1941–45 written by Carlos Caballero Jurado and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1983-11-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the uniforms worn by the foreign volunteers integrated into the German forces during the Second World War, between the years of 1941 and 1945.
Book Synopsis A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919 by : Lord Anglesey
Download or read book A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919 written by Lord Anglesey and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1993-09-14 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth coverage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the numerous colonial campaigns of the period.
Book Synopsis Hinterland Warriors and Military Dress by : Thomas Abler
Download or read book Hinterland Warriors and Military Dress written by Thomas Abler and published by Oxford : Berg. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the exotic dress of the armies of Europe has its origins in the conditions of frontier wars fought by imperial armies and in the employment of "Hinterland warriors" by imperial governments. This study charts how perceptions of these marginalized peoples influenced and ultimately transformed the history of military dress. Discussion encompasses Hussars of the eastern frontier, North African Mameluks and Zouaves, and the North American frontier experience. Includes bandw historical illustrations and a few photos. Abler is affiliated with the University of Waterloo, Canada. c. Book News Inc.
Book Synopsis Full Dress Sabretaches of the British Army by : W. Y. Carman
Download or read book Full Dress Sabretaches of the British Army written by W. Y. Carman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
