Journal Of The Society For Army Historical Research Vol 27

Author : W. Y. Baldry
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0282823018

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Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. 27 by W. Y. Baldry Pdf

Excerpt from Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. 27: Autumn 1949 May zud. There was another Brigade at exercise. Orders were given to the Army to hold themselves in readiness to march at seven tomorrow morning, but the hour of marching was afterwards changed to two afternoon. 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.

Author : Society for Army Historical Research (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCLA:L0106121734

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Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research by Society for Army Historical Research (London, England) Pdf

Author : Society for Army Historical Research (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0853683794

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Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. by Society for Army Historical Research (London, England) Pdf

Author : Society for Army Historical Research (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:655996994

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Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research by Society for Army Historical Research (London, England) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE FRONTIER WAR HOURNAL OF MAJOR JOHN CREALOCK 1878 A Narrative of the Ninth Frontier War by the Assistant Military secretary to Lieutenant General Thesiger by Anonim Pdf

Author : Society for Army Historical Research (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : SRLF:AA0007468010

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Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research by Society for Army Historical Research (London, England) Pdf

Author : Roger Knight
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141977027

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Britain Against Napoleon by Roger Knight Pdf

From Roger Knight, established by his multi-award winning book The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it came to defeat. For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe, and the British population lived in fear of French invasion. How was it that despite multiple changes of government and the assassination of a Prime Minister, Britain survived and won a generation-long war against a regime which at its peak in 1807 commanded many times the resources and manpower? This book looks beyond the familiar exploits of the army and navy to the politicians and civil servants, and examines how they made it possible to continue the war at all. It shows the degree to which, as the demands of the war remorselessly grew, the whole British population had to play its part. The intelligence war was also central. Yet no participants were more important, Roger Knight argues, than the bankers and traders of the City of London, without whose financing the armies of Britain's allies could not have taken the field. The Duke of Wellington famously said that the battle which finally defeated Napoleon was 'the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life': this book shows how true that was for the Napoleonic War as a whole. Roger Knight was Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum until 2000, and now teaches at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich. In 2005 he published, with Allen Lane/Penguin, The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson, which won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military History, the Mountbatten Award and the Anderson Medal of the Society for Nautical Research. The present book is a culmination of his life-long interest in the workings of the late 18th-century British state.

Author : Guy Dempsey
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399066426

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Albuera Eyewitness by Guy Dempsey Pdf

On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War’s most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march of the French field marshal Soult, who was trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, twelve miles to the north. However, after suffering losses of up to 7,000 men during the fighting, Wellington declared that, ‘Another such battle will ruin us’. One British regiment, the 57th Foot, suffered casualties of more than 50 per cent. Similarly, the French fought with enormous tenacity, and sustained almost equally heavy losses. The stories from those who fought in the battle on both sides make for both chilling and inspiring reading. These contemporaneous accounts include letters, diaries, official correspondence, army records, maps, newspaper reports and memoirs totaling over 100 contemporary accounts of the battle. They range from the comprehensive after-action reports of the British, Portuguese, Spanish and French commanders to casualty and prisoner lists and to recollections of individual soldiers from all the combatant armies. The purpose of this book is to tell the story of the battle exclusively by way of these primary sources, with English translations for foreign language sources, along with, in each case, a commentary identifying the source and its context. The heart of the work will be a vast number of first-hand accounts providing astonishing details of the intense fighting including the heroism of the Spanish troops, the massacre of Colborne’s brigade by Polish lancers, Beresford’s near-fatal indecisiveness, and the heroic charge of the Fusilier brigade. This presentation allows readers avid for detailed historical information to draw their own conclusions about how the events of the battle unfolded.

Author : Andrew MacKillop
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788853927

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More Fruitful Than the Soil by Andrew MacKillop Pdf

This book analyses the origins, development and impact of British Army recruiting in the Scottish Highlands in the period from 1739 to 1815. It examines the interaction of government, landlords and tenantry. Recruiting is analysed within the context of rapid socio-economic change. The emphasis is on tenant reactions to recruiting, and the study concludes that this was a vital factor in bringing about change in the tenurial structure in the region. Both the decline of the tacksman and the emergence of crofting are linked to the process of regiment raising. Military recruiting involved a clear recognition on the part of the Highland landlords and tenantry that the Empire and the 'fiscal military state' offered alternative sources of revenue. Both groups 'colonised' various levels of the state's military machine. As a result of this close involvement, the government remained a vital influence in the area well after 1745, and a major player in the region's economy. Recruiting was not simply a residue of clanship, rather it was a form of commercial activity, analogous to kelping.

Author : Gavin Holman
Publisher : Gavin Holman
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Brass Bands of the British Isles 1800-2018 - a historical directory by Gavin Holman Pdf

Of the many brass bands that have flourished in Britain and Ireland over the last 200 years very few have documented records covering their history. This directory is an attempt to collect together information about such bands and make it available to all. Over 19,600 bands are recorded here, with some 10,600 additional cross references for alternative or previous names. This volume supersedes the earlier “British Brass Bands – a Historical Directory” (2016) and includes some 1,400 bands from the island of Ireland. A separate work is in preparation covering brass bands beyond the British Isles. A separate appendix lists the brass bands in each county

Author : Gavin Holman
Publisher : Gavin Holman
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Brass Band Bibliography by Gavin Holman Pdf

9th edition, 2019. A comprehensive list of books, articles, theses and other material covering the brass band movement, its history, instruments and musicology; together with other related topics (originally issued in book form in January 2009)

Author : James Davey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300217322

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In Nelson's Wake by James Davey Pdf

Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: An “impressive” account of how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon’s ultimate defeat (International Journal of Military History). Horatio Nelson’s celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy’s role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over. This groundbreaking book asserts that, contrary to the accepted notion that the Battle of Trafalgar essentially completed the Navy’s task, the war at sea actually intensified over the next decade, ceasing only with Napoleon’s final surrender. In this dramatic account of naval contributions between 1803 and 1815, James Davey offers original and exciting insights into the Napoleonic wars and Britain’s maritime history. Encompassing Trafalgar, the Peninsular War, the War of 1812, the final campaign against Napoleon, and many lesser known but likewise crucial moments, the book sheds light on the experiences of individuals high and low, from admiral and captain to sailor and cabin boy. The cast of characters also includes others from across Britain—dockyard workers, politicians, civilians—who made fundamental contributions to the war effort, and in so doing, both saved the nation and shaped Britain’s history.

Author : Milan Vego
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000196054

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Exercising Control of the Sea by Milan Vego Pdf

This book explains both the strategic and the operational aspects of exercising control of the sea. The struggle for sea control consists of three mutually related and overlapping phases: obtaining, maintaining and exercising sea control. It is in the phase of exercising sea control when one’s strategic or operational success is exploited; otherwise, the fruits of victories achieved would be wasted. This work describes the strategy of a stronger side in wartime after a desired degree of control has been obtained, which is followed by a discussion on the objectives and main methods used in exercising sea control. The remaining chapters explain and analyze in some detail each of the main methods of exercising sea control: defence and protection of one’s own and destruction/neutralization of the enemy’s military-economic potential at sea, capturing the enemy’s operationally important positions ashore, destroying/weakening the enemy’s military-economic potential ashore and supporting one’s ground forces in their offensive and defensive operations on the coast. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, sea power and naval history.

Author : Mark S. Thompson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473858428

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Wellington's Engineers by Mark S. Thompson Pdf

The role of the Royal Engineers in the Peninsular War has long been neglected and often misunderstood, and Mark Thompson's history is the first full account of their work and of the contribution they made throughout the conflict. He draws on his unrivalled collection of the engineers' letters and diaries in order to tell, in vivid detail, the story of the war as they experienced it. His narrative describes their role in all the major operations between 1808 and 1814, and it demonstrates the extraordinary range of tasks they undertook, from surveys and reconnaissance to the building of roads and bridges, siege works and field fortifications. His deeply researched study will be fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in the history of military engineering and a vital text for readers who are keen to broaden their understanding of the Peninsular War.

Author : H. C. B. Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317405078

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The British Army of the Eighteenth Century by H. C. B. Rogers Pdf

This book, originally published in 1977 examines in detail the organisation, training, and personnel of the British Army during the eighteenth century, and explains how the government policies of containing the enemy and colonial conquest were achieved. It also illustrates how the Army survived the constant nervousness of Parliament in reducing its strength after each emergency had passed. There are specific chapters devoted to the strategies of Marlborough, Amherst and Howe and to tactics as displayed at the battles of Ramillies, Fontenoy, Camden and Guildford Court House.