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Author : Ira D. Gruber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 1469622157
Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution
Author : David G. Chandler,Ian Frederick William Beckett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192853332
From longbow, pike, and musket to Challenger tanks, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Gulf Campaign, from the Duke of Marlborough to Field Marshal Montgomery, this stimulating and informative book recounts the history of the British army from its medieval antecedents to the present day. Commanders, campaigns, battles, organization, and weaponry are all covered in detail within the wider context of the social, economic, and political environment in which armies exist and fight, making this the definitive one-volume history of the British army for specialists and non-specialists alike. Book jacket.
Author : J.W Fortescue
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752353396
Reproduction of the original: A History of the British Army by J.W Fortescue
Author : J. W. Fortescue
Publisher : MACMILLAN AND CO
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The history of the British Army is commonly supposed to begin with the year 1661, and from the day, the 14th of February, whereon King Charles the Second took over Monk's Regiment of Foot from the Commonwealth's service to his own, and named it the Coldstream Guards. The assumption is unfortunately more convenient than accurate. The British standing army dates not from 1661 but from 1645, not from Monk's regiment but from the famous New Model, which was established by Act of the Long Parliament and maintained, in substance, until the Restoration. The continuity of the Coldstream regiment's existence was practically unbroken by the ceremony of Saint Valentine's day, and this famous corps therefore forms the link that binds the New Model to the Army of Queen Victoria. But we are not therefore justified in opening the history of the army with the birth of the New Model. The very name indicates the existence of an earlier model, and throws us back to the outbreak of the Civil War. There then confronts us the difficulty of conceiving how an organised body of trained fighting men could have been formed without the superintendence of experienced officers. We are forced to ask whence came those officers, and where did they learn their profession. The answer leads us to the Thirty Years' War and the long struggle for Dutch Independence, to the English and Scots, numbered by tens, nay, hundreds of thousands, who fought under Gustavus Adolphus and Maurice of Nassau. Two noble regiments still abide with us as representatives of these two schools, a standing record of our army's 'prentice years. But though we go back two generations before the Civil War to find the foundation of the New Model Army, it is impossible to pause there. In the early years of Queen Elizabeth's reign we are brought face to face with an important period in our military history, with a break in old traditions, an unwilling conformity with foreign standards, in a word, with the renascence in England of the art of war. For there were memories to which the English clung with pathetic tenacity, not in Elizabeth's day only but even to the midst of the Civil War, the memories of King Harry the Fifth, of the Black Prince, of Edward the Third, and of the unconquerable infantry that had won the day at Agincourt, Poitiers, and Creçy. The passion of English sentiment over the change is mirrored to us for all time in the pages of Shakespeare; for no nation loves military reform so little as our own, and we shrink from the thought that if military glory is not to pass from a possession into a legend, it must be eternally renewed with strange weapons and by unfamiliar methods. This was the trouble which afflicted England under the Tudors, and she comforted herself with the immortal prejudice that is still her mainstay in all times of doubt, "I tell thee herald, I thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen." The origin of the new departures in warfare must therefore be briefly traced through the Spaniards, the Landsknechts, and the Swiss, and the old English practice must be followed to its source. Creçy gives us no resting-place, for Edward the Third's also was a time of military reform; the next steps are to the Battle of Falkirk, the Statute of Winchester, and the Assize of Arms; and still the English traditions recede before us, till at last at the Conquest we can seize a great English principle which forced itself upon the conquering Normans, and ultimately upon all Europe. To be continue in this ebook...
Author : Sir John William Fortescue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015006994928
Author : Sir John William Fortescue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PSU:000064040578
Author : Joachim Hayward Stocqueler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : BNC:1001931184
Author : Sir John Fortescue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCLA:31158011667747
Author : John William Fortescue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337461972
Author : Sir John William Fortescue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B3493429
Author : Sir John William Fortescue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PSU:000064040639
Author : Sir John William Fortescue
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908902825
Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life’s work “The History of the British Army”, issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large and diverse subject in its entirety; but Sir John did so with aplomb, leading to a readable and comprehensive study. According to Professor Emeritus of Military History at King’s College, Brian Bond, the work was “the product of indefatigable research in original documents, a determination to present a clear, accurate, and readable narrative of military operations, and a close personal knowledge of the battlefields, which enabled him to elucidate his account with excellent maps. Most important, however, was his motivation: namely, a lifelong affection for the old, long-service, pre-Cardwell army, the spirit of the regiments of which it largely consisted, and the value of its traditions to the nation. An important part of his task was to distil and inculcate these soldierly virtues which, in his conservative view, contrasted sharply with the unedifying character of politicians who habitually meddled in military matters.” ODNB. This first volume covers the period from the battle of Hastings in 1066 to the end of the Seven Year’s War in 1713. It includes the battles at Bannockburn, Crecy, Agincourt, Flodden, the battles of the English Civil War, Dunkirk Dunes, Tangiers, and the battles during Marlborough’s campaigns. The volume also traces the development of European Armies, infantry, cavalry and artillery, and the specific changes in Britain during the period. A MUST READ for any military enthusiast. Author — Fortescue, J. W. Sir, 1859-1933. Text taken, whole and complete, from the second edition published in 1910, London, by Macmillan and Co. Original Page Count – XXXV and 593 pages. Illustrations — Numerous.
Author : J.W Fortescue
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752406993
Reproduction of the original: A History of the British Army by J.W Fortescue
Author : Stephen Conway
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526711427
Much has been written about the British army’s campaigns during the many wars it fought in the eighteenth century, but for over 150 years no one has attempted to produce a history of the army as an institution during this period. That is why Stephen Conway’s perceptive and detailed study is so timely and important. Taking into account the latest scholarship, he considers the army’s legal status, political control and administration, its system of recruitment, the relationships between officers and men, and the social and economic as well as constitutional interactions of the army with British and other societies. Throughout the book a key theme is order and control. How did a small number of officers exercise authority over large numbers of common soldiers? Traditionally the answer has focused on the role of a draconian system of corporal and capital punishment – by extensive use of the lash and the rope. Yet no institution can function through fear alone and he shows that the obedience of its common soldiers had to be negotiated by their officers who were very aware of their men’s sense of their entitlements, and their conception of military service as contractual. By uncovering the mental world of both officers and common soldiers, Stephen Conway offers a very different view of how the British army operated between the Hanoverian succession and the end of the War of American Independence. His work will be fascinating reading for all students of British military history.
Author : Hon. Sir John William Fortescue
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782891376
Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life’s work “The History of the British Army”, issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large and diverse subject in its entirety; but Sir John did so and with aplomb, leading to a readable and comprehensive study. This tenth volume covers the period from 1814-1815, as the British Army along with its Portuguese and Spanish Allies finally pushed into France in 1814 they still met with fierce and determined resistance from the French troops under the veteran Marshal Soult. After a number of skilful, and some less skilful actions along the river lines the victories of the British troops added further evidence to the hopeless situation for Napoleon who abdicated in 1814. The British government immediately sent a large part of the victorious Peninsular army on a foolish and unsuccessful attack of New Orleans, all the more futile as peace had already been signed between the United States and Great Britain. Napoleon did not rest long in his new home on the Isle of Elba, returning to France in 1815 reuniting his enemies against him and fighting the era defining battle of Waterloo, one of the finest hours of the British Army. TIMES.—"We have in these volumes the worthy continuation of a history which is worthy of its subject. Mr. Fortescue will not ask for higher praise." A MUST READ for any military enthusiast.