Three Main Military Questions Of The Day I A Home Reserve Army Ii The More Economic Military Tenure Of India Iii Cavalry As Affected By Breechloading Arms

Author : Henry M. Havelock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265576854
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Three Main Military Questions of the Day written by Henry M. Havelock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Three Main Military Questions of the Day: I. A Home Reserve Army; II. The More Economic Military Tenure of India; III. Cavalry as Affected by Breechloading Arms Holkar's Saddle is his Kingdom - Bolhar'a Reappearance - Hs makes for the Punj ab - Lake follows closely - Holkar Beaten at last - Complete ness of Lake's Success - Review of 1857 - 8-9 - Ws cannot keep Men in India - What made them necessary in 1868 P - Proved Neces sity? Or merely a single Opinion P - The Question is opportune now Another System might give Better Results - First Five Months of the Mutiny - The Reinforcements arriv e - Reconquest of Ouds and Rohil cund - Escape of the Rebels from Lucknow - Ought they to have escaped unhurt -our Splendid Cavalry and Horse Artillery - Why Continuous Pursuit was not Tried - Our present Tactical Organisation - Is not suited to cope with Speed in Flight - Why the Sepoys bafled us so long The Rebels escape from Bareilly - Why they got off unhurt - Their Speed everywhere saved them - The Tactics of Fhuope misapplied - Thus the War dragged on - Lost Opportunities do not return - The Mutiny died out, was not crushed out - Conciliation, not the Sword, did the Work The Outbreak at Meerut - The Rebels seize Delhi unhindered - Mounted Rifles would have saved the Place - The slet December, 1858 - A memo rable Night March - We think better of it How not to do it We somehow miss the N ans - Our Cavalry suddenly checked - We work through the wood - A little too late - The Rebels get off unhurt again - What caused this Failure - A great Opportunity lost for Ever Did we really require Men - The System alone made them ne cessary - Want of Speed our great Defect - How to do Better in Future How far our Railways will help na - Pursuit after Tantie Topee in l859 - What Railways cannot do Limited Power of Railways - The Rails secured by Mounted Rifles - Reduction of Coat with Increase of Power - Do we want Native Troops P - Have not such N umbers been proved unnecessary f - Climate alone calls for Native Troops - Why not do as the French do P - Keep Natives enough for Use, and no more Mounted Rifles the Key to India's Safety - Greater Mobility is our First Want - Gradual Stages of this Great Reform - Power of rapid Concen tration - India no longer a Weakness to na - tland strong and re spected Abroad - India more firmly held at much less Cost - A Common Sense View of a Great Question page 1154 m 0. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.