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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Artillery
ISBN : NYPL:33433009351283
Author : William Macneile Dixon,William Wilson Hunter,Charles Sarolea
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1345376693
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Artillery
ISBN : NYPL:33433009351341
Author : Royal Artillery Institution (Woolwich, London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Artillery
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080691033
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Artillery
ISBN : UIUC:30112099277367
Author : Daniel Whittingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108480079
Presents the first full-length study of one of Britain's most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E. Callwell.
Author : Spencer Jones
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806189611
The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France in 1914, it prevailed against the German army because of its professionalism and tactical skill, strengths developed through hard lessons learned a dozen years earlier. In October 1899, the British went to war against the South African Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State, expecting little resistance. A string of early defeats in the Boer War shook the military’s confidence. Historian Spencer Jones focuses on this bitter combat experience in From Boer War to World War, showing how it crucially shaped the British Army’s tactical development in the years that followed. Before the British Army faced the Boer republics, an aura of complacency had settled over the military. The Victorian era had been marked by years of easy defeats of crudely armed foes. The Boer War, however, brought the British face to face with what would become modern warfare. The sweeping, open terrain and advent of smokeless powder meant soldiers were picked off before they knew where shots had been fired from. The infantry’s standard close-order formations spelled disaster against the well-armed, entrenched Boers. Although the British Army ultimately adapted its strategy and overcame the Boers in 1902, the duration and cost of the war led to public outcry and introspection within the military. Jones draws on previously underutilized sources as he explores the key tactical lessons derived from the war, such as maximizing firepower and using natural cover, and he shows how these new ideas were incorporated in training and used to effect a thorough overhaul of the British Army. The first book to address specific connections between the Boer War and the opening months of World War I, Jones’s fresh interpretation adds to the historiography of both wars by emphasizing the continuity between them.
Author : Colonel K. W. Maurice-Jones
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781491157
A concise history of Britain's coastal artillery defences from the death of Elizabeth I to the formal disbanding of the Coastal Artillery arm in 1956. The book, therefore, covers the rise and fall of the British Empire, and as such it is as much concerned with the protection of Britain's far-flung colonial outposts such as Gibraltar and Singapore, as it is with the guarding of the island itself. The author, himself a Royal Artillery man, insists that coast artillery is an offensive weapon, since: 'It was the coast defences that made it possible for the Navy to enact its offensive role by sustaining and securing that service in time of war'. With detailed descriptions and tables of personnel, artillery ordnance, and accounts of the actions fought by coastal artillery in the 17th-19th century wars with France and during the two World Wars, this is an interesting work of history as well as a useful addition to the library of the serious artillery specialist. Illustrated with 17 maps.
Author : Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCAL:B4231603
Author : Brenda J. Buchanan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351931908
Gunpowder studies are still in their infancy despite the long-standing civil and military importance of this explosive since its discovery in China in the mid-ninth century AD. In this second volume by contributors who meet regularly at symposia of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), the research is again rooted in the investigation of the technology of explosives manufacture, but the fact that the chapters range in scope from the Old World to the New, from sources of raw materials in south-east Asia to the complications of manufacture in the West, shows that the story is more than the simple one of how an intriguing product was made. This volume is the first to develop the implications of the subject, not just in the sense of relating it to changing military technologies, but in that of seeing the securing of gunpowder supplies as fundamental to the power of the state and imperial pretensions.The search for saltpetre, for example, an essential ingredient of gunpowder, became a powerful engine of sea-going European trade from the early seventeenth century. Smaller states like Venice were unable to form these distant connections, and so to sustain a gunpowder army. Stronger states like France and Britain were able to do so, and became even more powerful as the demand for improved explosives fostered national strengths - leading to a development of the sciences, especially chemistry, in the former case, and of manufacturing techniques in the latter.
Author : Alexis Easley,Andrew King,John Morton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317065494
Extending the work of The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers, this volume provides a critical introduction and case studies that illustrate cutting-edge approaches to periodicals research, as well as an overview of recent developments in the field. The twelve chapters model diverse approaches and methodologies for research on nineteenth-century periodicals. Each case study is contextualized within one of the following broad areas of research: single periodicals, individual journalists, gender issues, periodical networks, genre, the relationship between periodicals, transnational/transatlantic connections, technologies of printing and illustration, links within a single periodical, topical subjects, science and periodicals, and imperialism and periodicals. Contributors incorporate first-person accounts of how they conducted their research and provide specific examples of how they gained access to primary sources, as well as the methods they used to analyze the materials. The 2018 winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize. The Committee describes the focus of the book on methodology and case studies as “fresh and original,” and “useful for both experienced scholars and those new to the field.” "Overall. Case Studies suggests new ways of reading canonical authors, new unerstandings of the interprentation of the personal and the public, and an admirable energy in engaging with the structures of national and transnational periodical discourses that are clearly implicated in maintaining soft power within societies" -- Brian Maidment, Liverpool John Moores University
Author : Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015023453452
Author : Matthew Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134920457
This edited collection examines the British ‘way’ in counter-insurgency. It brings together and consolidates new scholarship on the counter-insurgency associated with the end of empire, foregrounding a dark and violent history of British imperial rule, one that stretched back to the nineteenth century and continued until the final collapse of the British Empire in the 1960s. The essays gathered in the collection cover the period from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s; they are both empirical and conceptual in tone. This edited collection pivots on the theme of the nature of the force used by Britain against colonial insurgents. It argues that the violence employed by British security forces in counter-insurgency to maintain imperial rule is best seen from a maximal perspective, contra traditional arguments that the British used minimum force to defeat colonial rebellions. Case studies are drawn from across the British Empire, covering a period of some hundred years, but they concentrate on the savage wars of decolonisation after 1945. The collection includes a historiographical essay and one on the ‘lost’ Hanslope archive by the scholar chosen by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to manage the release of the papers held. This book was published as a special issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies.
Author : Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UCAL:$B142446
Author : Joseph MacKay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009225793
Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to protecting populations and reconstructing legitimate political orders, it has appeared in other times and places in very different forms – and has taken on a range of politics in doing so. How did it arrive at its present form, and what generated these others, along the way? Spanning several centuries and four detailed case studies, The Counterinsurgent Imagination unpacks and explores this intellectual history through counterinsurgency manuals. These military theoretical and instructional texts, and the practitioners who produced them, made counterinsurgency possible in practice. By interrogating these processes, this book explains how counter-insurrectionary war eventually took on its late twentieth and early twenty-first century forms. It shows how and why counterinsurgent ideas persist, despite recurring failures.