EVELYN WOOD VC (ebook)

Otros libros del autor

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  BRITAIN AGAINST THE XHOSA AND ZULU PEOPLES

  STEPHEN MANNING

  Britain's war against the Zulu people of southern Africa in the late nineteenth century is one of the most famous clashes in the history of the British empire, but her earlier wars against the Xhosa, also in southern Africa, are far less well known. And, although the role Lord Chelmsford played in the Anglo-Zulu War has been recounted in exhaustive detail, his earlier experienc...

  $383.69

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  BRITAIN AGAINST THE XHOSA AND ZULU PEOPLES

  STEPHEN MANNING

  Britain's war against the Zulu people of southern Africa in the late nineteenth century is one of the most famous clashes in the history of the British empire, but her earlier wars against the Xhosa, also in southern Africa, are far less well known. And, although the role Lord Chelmsford played in the Anglo-Zulu War has been recounted in exhaustive detail, his earlier experienc...

  $383.69

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  BRITAIN AT WAR WITH THE ASANTE NATION, 1823–1900

  STEPHEN MANNING

  This authoritative military history chronicles the significant but overlooked colonial wars between the British and the Asante of West Africa. Throughout the nineteenth century, Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa. Like the Zulus, the Asante were a warrior nation who offered a tough adversary for the British regulars. And y...

  $299.00

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  BAYONET TO BARRAGE

  STEPHEN MANNING

  How advances in weapons technology transformed the British soldier's experience of war during the nineteenth century. How did technical advances in weaponry alter the battlefield during the reign of Queen Victoria? In 1845, in the first Anglo-Sikh War, the outcome was decided by the bayonet; just over fifty years later, in the second Boer War, the combatants were many miles apa...

  $229.00

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  EVELYN WOOD VC

  STEPHEN MANNING

  Given the increasing interest in the Victorian era an authoritative biography of Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood VC is long overdue. By any standards his career was remarkable and began with him in the Royal Navy in the Crimea before he transferred to the cavalry to see more action. ...

  $119.00

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  SIR GARNET WOLSELEY

  STEPHEN MANNING

  Field Marshal Lord Wolseley was an eminent Victorian, one of a handful of late nineteenth-century military men whose reputation transcends his age. He served the British empire in Burma, India, China, the Crimea, Canada, Asante, Egypt, South Africa and the Sudan. He excelled as a regimental soldier, staff officer, army commander and reformer and eventually commander-in-chief. Y...

  $383.99