Britain carried out many amphibious operations during the long-eighteenth century, ranging from raids to the landing of whole armies. British Amphibious Warfare 1739-1815 provides case-studies of some of these operations, and explores why their outco...Loe edasi...
William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the Peninsula, to Waterloo, and, after 1815, to Canada. William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the la...Loe edasi...
Containing chapters from some of the leading specialists in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, this volume covers a diverse range of topics that examine in detail aspects of the armies that fought for and against France from 1792-1815.Containing...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jul-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806168944)
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 effect...Loe edasi...
Napoleon is supposed to have said, ‘glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever’, but this collection of essays both revisits some of the most glorious episodes of the Napoleonic Wars and rescues from obscurity some fascinating but overlooked episode...Loe edasi...
The 2019 From Reason to Revolution conference took as its theme the experiences of the ordinary British soldier in the era 1721-1815, from enlistment, through service at home, to life on campaign and the experience of battle. This book presents the p...Loe edasi...
When Charles Edward Stuart launched the last, and perhaps most famous, of the Jacobite Risings in the late summer of 1745, the British Army found itself ill-placed to respond. Its most effective troops were on the continent; regular units at home wer...Loe edasi...
The inaugural ‘From Reason to Revolution Conference’ took as its theme ‘Command and Leadership’, which was explored in a variety of different ways by eight speakers whose papers took in the armies of France, Austria, Portugal, and Britain (and touche...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the French military contribution to the Jacobite Rising of 1745, including the first detachment of troops to sail with Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who were caught up in an intense naval battle, instead of landing in Scotlan...Loe edasi...
William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the Peninsula, to Waterloo, and, after 1815, to Canada. Graduating from the Royal Military College at Marlow, of which he begins hi...Loe edasi...
Sir Thomas Graham’s Netherlands Campaign of 1813–1814 has produced a surprisingly rich crop of memoirs and letters. This compelling new book brings together six of the shorter accounts, several of them never before seen in print, to help shed new lig...Loe edasi...
New history of a famous British cavalry regiment in the Napoleonic Wars. Based on a wealth of original material from the regimental archives and provides Insight into the development of cavalry tactics in the light of wartime experience....Loe edasi...
New account of a forgotten yet vital British campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. Based on previously unused archival documents, the correspondence of the commanders and eyewitness accounts....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806143439)
This study of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars demonstrates the effect of daily life details, such as illness and noncombat deaths of men and horses, on the outcomes of military campaigns. Bamford, an independent military historian, weighs...Loe edasi...
