Download Full eBooks in PDF
The British Cavalry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The British Cavalry book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : The Marquess of Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473814981
In-depth coverage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the numerous colonial campaigns of the period.
Author : Stephen Badsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351943185
A prevalent view among historians is that both horsed cavalry and the cavalry charge became obviously obsolete in the second half of the nineteenth century in the face of increased infantry and artillery firepower, and that officers of the cavalry clung to both for reasons of prestige and stupidity. It is this view, commonly held but rarely supported by sustained research, that this book challenges. It shows that the achievements of British and Empire cavalry in the First World War, although controversial, are sufficient to contradict the argument that belief in the cavalry was evidence of military incompetence. It offers a case study of how in reality a practical military doctrine for the cavalry was developed and modified over several decades, influenced by wider defence plans and spending, by the experience of combat, by Army politics, and by the rivalries of senior officers. Debate as to how the cavalry was to adjust its tactics in the face of increased infantry and artillery firepower began in the mid nineteenth century, when the increasing size of armies meant a greater need for mobile troops. The cavalry problem was how to deal with a gap in the evolution of warfare between the mass armies of the later nineteenth century and the motorised firepower of the mid twentieth century, an issue that is closely connected with the origins of the deadlock on the Western Front. Tracing this debate, this book shows how, despite serious attempts to ’learn from history’, both European-style wars and colonial wars produced ambiguous or disputed evidence as to the future of cavalry, and doctrine was largely a matter of what appeared practical at the time.
Author : George Charles Henry Victor Paget Marquis of Anglesey
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015036070640
This is the last volume of his monumental chronicle. The author examines the cavalry's role in trench warfare and shows how at the worst crisis moments, the cavalry's superior mobility saved the day.
Author : Anthony Leslie Dawson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473847088
Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to concentrate in depth, in graphic detail, on the experiences of the British cavalry during a century of warfare. That is why it is of such value. It is also compelling reading because it describes, using the words of the cavalrymen of the time, the organization, routines, training and social life of the cavalry as well as the fear and exhilaration of cavalry actions. Perhaps the most memorable passages record the drama and excitement of cavalry charges and the brutal, confused, often lethal experience of close-quarter combat in a mêlée of men and horses. Few books give such a direct inside view of what it was like to serve in the British cavalry during the nineteenth century.
Author : Lord Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780436273216
This book describes the history of the British cavalry in detail, running up to World War I.
Author : Valentine Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600026484
Author : Matthew Richardson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399051569
The opening months of the First World War were the golden sunset for the horsed regiments of the British army. Whether they were Lancers, Hussars or Dragoons, their names were redolent of glory and grandeur. Trained for shock tactics as well as scouting and reconnaissance, several times in 1914 they clashed dramatically with their German counterparts on the battlefields of France. Yet at the same time, the role of the cavalry was shifting inexorably away from these romantic charges, with trumpets, gleaming lances and swirling sabres. In the new warfare of the Twentieth Century, the true value of these regiments was as an intensively trained, highly mobile reserve. Despite their misgivings about the role, the Regular cavalry (latterly with Yeomanry alongside them) were also a highly effective force when fighting on foot. Able to arrive quickly at trouble spots, they were equally skilled with the rifle, and on more than one occasion in 1914 they were able to retrieve a critical situation.
Author : Lord Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780850523959
Volume V covers the last glory days of cavalry in World War I's Middle Eastern theater, as British, Indian, Australian and New Zealand cavalry conducted some of the most brilliant mounted operations of all time.
Author : Lord Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473815001
This volume covers the high noon of the British Empire, beginning with the Zulu War of 1879 and ending with Kitchener's River War of 1898. Between these came the 2nd Afghan War, the first Boer War, and Wolseley's Egyptian and Nile campaigns. Also described in some detail is the Cavalry's part in the campaigns against Osman Digna in the Eastern Sudan.
Author : Lord Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783835737
In this last volume of a monumental chronicl e, the author shows the part played by the British cavalry i n the First World War. Drawing on material from a number of sources he demonstrates how the cavalry''s superior mobility saved the day time and again. '
Author : Andrew Winrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317039938
The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horseback in the traditional manner of cavalry, they used horses primarily to move swiftly about the battlefield, where they would then dismount and fight on foot, thus anticipating the development of mechanised infantry tactics during the twentieth century. Yet despite this apparent foresight, the mounted infantry concept was abandoned by the British Army in 1913, just at the point when it may have made the transition from a colonial to a continental force as part of the British Expeditionary Force. Exploring the historical background to the Mounted Infantry, this book untangles the debates that raged in the army, Parliament and the press between its advocates and the supporters of the established cavalry. With its origins in the extemporised mounted detachments raised during times of crisis from infantry battalions on overseas imperial garrison duties, Dr Winrow reveals how the Mounted Infantry model, unique among European armies, evolved into a formalised and apparently highly successful organisation of non-cavalry mounted troops. He then analyses why the Mounted Infantry concept fell out of favour just eleven years after its apogee during the South African Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. As such the book will be of interest not only to historians of the nineteenth-century British army, but also those tracing the development of modern military doctrine and tactics, to which the Mounted Infantry provided successful - if short lived - inspiration.
Author : George Charles Henry Victor Paget Marquis of Anglesey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015290112
Author : Michael Barthorp
Publisher : Blandford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0713710438
Author : George Charles Henry Victor Paget Marquis of Anglesey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:73179716
Author : Charles Martyn
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473812772
A simplistic and informative guide to British Cavalry Swords that does not claim to be an academic treatise. The essential features are demonstrated by photographs and descriptions of swords from the author's own collection, supported by sketches of sword hilts that have not been generally publicised.