Download or read book A History of the British Army Vol 12 written by J. W. Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the British Army Vol 10 written by John William Fortescue and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the British Army, Vol. 10: 1814-1815 The Staff Corps The ofiicers of the Army The men of the Army Discipline: the lash Medals and decorations of honour Drill and equipment the cavalry The infantry The Office of Ordnance The Artillery the corps of drivers The Artillery's quarrel with Wellington The Engineers their grievances Their merits and demerits Character of Wellington. 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.
Download or read book A History of the British Army Vol 12 written by John William Fortescue and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the British Army, Vol. 12: 1839-1852 It purports to contain transcripts Of all the documents which came before the governor-general in Council at each meeting, and it is, on the whole, the most disorderly and chaotic assembly of papers that I have encountered in more than thirty years of research. In the first place the volumes are so gigantic, heavy and unwieldy, that it is difficult to read them com fortably in any attitude. In the second, many of the documents before the Council (as is plain from internal evidence) have not been transcribed at all, while others have been copied two or three times over. In the third the transcripts have not been checked, and contain many corrupt passages which cost me much trouble to emend. In the fourth, many of the clerks wrote vile hands, and occasionally one of the idler among them has filled up his exhausted ink-pot with water instead of ink, and has left writing so faint that it can only be read with much suffering to the eyes. In the fifth, there is no index, and, though the volumes are numbered, the pages are not, so that it is impossible to give an accurate reference to them. In the sixth. 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.
Download or read book A History of the British Army To the close of the seven years war written by Sir John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the British Army written by Sir John Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the British Army written by Sir John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History Of The British Army Vol III 1763 1793 written by Hon. Sir John William Fortescue and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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”, According to Professor 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 third volume covers the period from 1763-1793, the European Powersfought each other via proxy but great vigour in North America and India. The British Army would have great success in India under military leaders of the calibre of Abercromby, Cornwallis and Warren Hastings. however the loss of the American Revolutionary War, gained for the Americans their Independence and the British troops, hamstrung by political foolishness, a humbling defeat. TIMES.—"Whatever Mr. Fortescue may do in the future, he has already, in his first three volumes, produced one of the most important military works in the English language. It is sincerely to be hoped that they will be read as widely as they deserve to be." ARMY AND NAVY GAZETTE.—"The Hon. J. W. Fortescue is greatly to be congratulated upon the third volume of his very important History of the British Army....With the publication of this book the British Army is gaining a complete history really worthy of the name." A MUST READ for any military enthusiast.
Download or read book A History of the British Army written by Sir John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the British Army written by John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book FORTESCUE S HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY written by The Hon. J. W. Fortescue and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1839-52. This volume is concerned with India and operations in Afghanistan and on the Khyber Pass. There is a section dealing with the revolt in Australia and operations in New Zealand and a description of the Kaffir War and the Boer revolt.
Download or read book A History of the British Army Vol 2 written by J. W. Fortescue and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the British Army Vol. 2 is one of the great works of Sir J. W. Fortescue about the british army.
Download or read book Fortescue s History of the British Army written by J. W. Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. XI - 1815-1838. Fortescue looks at the British Army in 1815, and particularly the recruit in England. Every detail of his life is included, and the picture is an important one for all who are interested in this period of military and social history. The War with Nepal, the Pindari War, the War in Ceylon and the War with Burma all occupy the subsequent pages followed by the Ashanti campaign and the Kaffir War of 1834-35. This volume also includes details of Home Affairs and Foreign Policy.
Download or read book A History of the British Army Vol II 1714 1763 written by Sir John William Fortescue and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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 second volume covers the period from 1713 to 1763, including the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, the wars of Austrian Succession, and British expansion into America and India and the enduring struggle with France for Imperial power. 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 – xxii and 606 pages. Illustrations — Numerous maps and plans
Download or read book A History of the British Army written by Sir John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the British Army written by J.W Fortescue and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: A History of the British Army by J.W Fortescue
Download or read book A History of the British Army Vol II written by J. W. Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the British Army Vol 2 of 2 written by J. W. Fortescue and published by MACMILLAN AND CO. This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of disbanding the Army began some months before the final conclusion of the Peace of Utrecht. By Christmas 1712 thirteen regiments of dragoons, twenty-two of foot, and several companies of invalids who had been called up to do duty owing to the depletion of the regular garrisons, had been actually broken. The Treaty was no sooner signed than several more were disbanded, making thirty-three thousand men discharged in all. More could not be reduced until the eight thousand men who were left in garrison in Flanders could be withdrawn, but even so the total force on the British Establishment, including all colonial garrisons, had sunk in 1714 to less than thirty thousand men. The soldiers received as usual a small bounty on discharge; and great inducements were offered to persuade them to take service in the colonies, or, in other words, to go into perpetual exile. But this disbandment was by no means so commonplace and artless an affair as might at first sight appear. One of the first measures taken in hand by Bolingbroke and by his creature Ormonde was the remodelling of the Army, by which term was signified the elimination of officers and of whole corps that favoured the Protestant succession, to make way for those attached to the Jacobite interest. Prompted by such motives, and wholly careless of the feelings of the troops, they violated the old rule that the youngest regiments should always be the first to be disbanded, and laid violent hands on several veteran corps. The Seventh and Eighth Dragoons, the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-third, Thirty-second, Thirtieth, Twenty-ninth, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-second, and Fourteenth Foot were ruthlessly sacrificed; nay, even the Sixth, one of the sacred six old regiments, and distinguished above all others in the Spanish War, was handed over for dissolution like a regiment of yesterday. There were bitter words and stormy scenes among regimental officers over such shameless, unjust, and insulting procedure. All these designs, however, were suddenly shattered by the death of Queen Anne. The accession of the Elector of Hanover to the throne was accomplished with a tranquillity which must have amazed even those who desired it most. Before the new King could arrive the country was gladdened by the return of the greatest of living Englishmen. Landing at Dover on the very day of the Queen's death, Marlborough was received with salutes of artillery and shouts of delight from a joyful crowd. Proceeding towards London next day he was met by the news that his name was excluded from the list of Lords-Justices to whom the government of the country was committed pending the King's arrival. Deeply chagrined, but preserving always his invincible serenity, he pushed on to the capital, intending to enter it with the same privacy that he had courted during his banishment in the Low Countries. But the people had decided that his entry must be one of triumph; and a tumultuous welcome from all classes showed that the country could and would make amends for the shameful treatment meted out to him two years before. On the 18th of September King George landed at Greenwich, and shortly afterwards the new ministry was nominated. Stanhope, the brilliant soldier of the Peninsular War, became second Secretary-of-State; William Pulteney, afterwards Earl of Bath, Secretary-at-War; Robert Walpole, Paymaster of the Forces; while Marlborough with some reluctance resumed his old appointments of Captain-General, Master-General of the Ordnance, and Colonel of the First Guards. He soon found, however, that though he held the titles, he did not hold the authority of the offices, and that the true control of the Army was transferred to the Secretary-at-War. To be continue in this ebook...
