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Author : Harriet Ward
Publisher : London : Richard Bentley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Recollections of an Old Soldier written by Harriet Ward and published by London : Richard Bentley. This book was released on 1849 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Thompson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399048473
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The British Cheer written by Paul Thompson and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a bold, painstakingly researched and wide-ranging assessment of the British Cheer in the Napoleonic era. Reference to the Cheer in accounts of the time is virtually ubiquitous and repeatedly the claim was made for cheering as an integral part of British offensive operations. However, more recent historians have tended to overlook this evidence. Based upon a vast range of contemporary sources, this book suggests that the Cheer wielded genuine power as a true 'weapon of war'. This book first surveys the history of acclamations in battle worldwide and British battle-cries from all periods, before addressing the question of what the British Cheer actually sounded like. Issues of acoustics, physics and the psychology of battlefield morale are considered, along with commentaries from significant military scholars throughout history. Examination of the Napoleonic-era Cheer then reveals the practically invincible 'recipe' of volley-cheer-charge that propelled the British Army to victory upon victory. Comparison is drawn with French and other national patterns of vocalizing, along with analysis of those occasions when the Cheer might be suppressed. Finally, the attitude of the Duke of Wellington towards cheering is reconsidered, with surprising results. This study encompasses a vast canvas of place and time in pursuit of the elusive yet galvanizing Cheer: from the Mahratta wars in India, through campaigns in Egypt, the Mediterranean, Flanders, the Caribbean and South America, as well as the war of 1812. The Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns feature prominently as the Cheer is heard thrillingly from Vimeiro to Talavera, Salamanca to Vitoria, Orthez to Toulouse and the shocking siege of Badajoz to the charge of the Scots Greys on the ridge of Mont Saint Jean. Anyone interested in the wars of Revolutionary France and Napoleon, the British army, the career of the Duke of Wellington, or indeed the wider questions of the psychological motivations of combat will find this book illuminating and thought-provoking.
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Total Pages : 1234 pages
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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Author : Andrew Bamford
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806189304
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword written by Andrew Bamford and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although an army’s success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword, military historian Andrew Bamford assesses the effectiveness of the British Army in sustained campaigning during the Napoleonic Wars. In the process, he offers a fresh and controversial look at Britain’s military system, showing that success or failure on campaign rested on the day-to-day experiences of regimental units rather than the army as a whole. Bamford draws his title from the words of Captain Moyle Sherer, who during the winter of 1816–1817 wrote an account of his service during the Peninsular War: “My regiment has never been very roughly handled in the field. . . But, alas! What between sickness, suffering, and the sword, few, very few of those men are now in existence.” Bamford argues that those daily scourges of such often-ignored factors as noncombat deaths and equine strength and losses determined outcomes on the battlefield. In the nineteenth century, the British Army was a collection of regiments rather than a single unified body, and the regimental system bore the responsibility of supplying manpower on that field. Between 1808 and 1815, when Britain was fighting a global conflict far greater than its military capabilities, the system nearly collapsed. Only a few advantages narrowly outweighed the army’s increasing inability to meet manpower requirements. This book examines those critical dynamics in Britain’s major early-nineteenth-century campaigns: the Peninsular War (1808–1814), the Walcheren Expedition (1809), the American War (1812–1815), and the growing commitments in northern Europe from 1813 on. Drawn from primary documents, Bamford’s statistical analysis compares the vast disparities between regiments and different theatres of war and complements recent studies of health and sickness in the British Army.
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Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal United Service Institution written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gareth Cornwell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231503814
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945 written by Gareth Cornwell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to Njabulo Ndebele's call to "rediscover the ordinary." The result has been a kaleidoscope of texts in which evolving cultural forms and modes of identity are rearticulated and explored. An invaluable guide for general readers as well as scholars of African literary history, this comprehensive text celebrates the multiple traditions and exciting future of the South African voice. Although the South African Constitution of 1994 recognizes no fewer than eleven official languages, English has remained the country's literary lingua franca. This book offers a narrative overview of South African literary production in English from 1945 to the postapartheid present. An introduction identifies the most interesting and noteworthy writing from the period. Alphabetical entries provide accurate and objective information on genres and writers. An appendix lists essential authors published before 1945.
Author : Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Library
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Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution, (to April 30th, 1889.) written by Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library company of Philadelphia
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Total Pages : 1150 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A catalogue of the books belonging to the Library company of Philadelphia written by Library company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1148 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Sciences and arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1152 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book Publishers' circular and booksellers' record written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sampson Low
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Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers' Circular written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : South Kensington Museum. Forster Collection
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Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Forster Collection written by South Kensington Museum. Forster Collection and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 528 pages
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Download or read book The Quarterly Review (London) written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 832 pages
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Download or read book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
