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Book A practical guide for the light infantry officer

Download or read book A practical guide for the light infantry officer written by Thomas Henry Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A practical guide for the light infantry officer

Download or read book A practical guide for the light infantry officer written by Thomas Henry Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Practical Guide for the Light Infantry Officer

Download or read book A Practical Guide for the Light Infantry Officer written by Thomas Hammont Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Practical Guide for the Light Infantry Officer

Download or read book A Practical Guide for the Light Infantry Officer written by Thomas Hammont Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Listening to the Fur Trade

Download or read book Listening to the Fur Trade written by Daniel Robert Laxer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and – very occasionally – bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a word, noisy. Daniel Laxer unearths traces of music, performance, and other intangible cultural phenomena long since silenced, allowing us to hear the fur trade for the first time. Listening to the Fur Trade uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. The trading post was a noisy nexus, populated by a polyglot crowd of highly mobile people from different national, linguistic, religious, cultural, and class backgrounds. They found ways to interact every time they met, and facilitating material interests and survival went beyond the simple exchange of goods. Trust and good relations often entailed gift-giving: reciprocity was performed with dances, songs, and firearm salutes. Indigenous protocols of ceremony and treaty-making were widely adopted by fur traders, who supplied materials and technologies that sometimes changed how these ceremonies sounded. Within trading companies, masters and servants were on opposite ends of the social ladder but shared songs in the canoes and lively dances during the long winters at the trading posts. While the fur trade was propelled by economic and political interests, Listening to the Fur Trade uncovers the songs and ceremonies of First Nations people, the paddling songs of the voyageurs, and the fiddle music and step-dancing at the trading posts that provided its pulse.

Book Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon

Download or read book Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon written by Rory Muir and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study of Napoleonic battles and tactics examines firsthand accounts from soldiers’ memoirs, diaries, and letters: “A major work” (David Seymour, Military Illustrated). In this illuminating volume, historian Rory Muir explores what actually happened in battle during the Napoleonic Wars, putting special focus on how the participants’ feelings and reactions influenced the outcome. Looking at the immediate dynamics of combat, Muir sheds new light on how Napoleon’s tactics worked. This analysis is enhanced with vivid accounts of those who were there—the frightened foot soldier, the general in command, the young cavalry officer whose boils made it impossible to ride, and the smartly dressed aide-de-camp, tripped up by his voluminous pantaloons. Muir considers the interaction of artillery, infantry, and cavalry; the role of the general, subordinate commanders, staff officers, and aides; morale, esprit de corps, soldiers’ attitudes toward death and feelings about the enemy; the plight of the wounded; the difficulty of surrendering; and the way victories were finally decided. He discusses the mechanics of musketry, artillery, and cavalry charges and shows how they influenced the morale, discipline, and resolution of the opposing armies. "Muir has filled an important gap in the study of the Napoleonic era."—Library Journal

Book With Trumpet  Drum and Fife

Download or read book With Trumpet Drum and Fife written by Mike Hall and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Trumpet, Drum and Fife' is described as a 'short treatise covering the rise and fall of military musical instruments on the battlefield'. Despite there being a plethora of books about military music, 'With Trumpet, Drum and Fife' stands out from the crowd in that it explores new areas of the world of military musical instruments. It is easy to read format and conciseness unwraps a depth and breadth of detail contained within. The chapters of the book guide you from the Ancient World through to the Restoration and up to the modern day giving examples of the origins and developments of the instruments employed. The author gives unique and well-researched accounts of the role of drummers within the military environment. The text explores the historical context of land battles and the importance of signaling instruments used in times of conflict. The status and pecking order of musicians within the military and the unique development of Drummers' uniforms are also detailed with the images contained within the book highlighting specific areas of interest. Mike Hall's personal knowledge and experiences of being a Senior Drum Major in the Coldstream Guards add polish and credulity to the content. Reading through the book you will uncover a mine of interesting information about the evolution of Drum and Fife duty and the historical roles of the Drum Major General and the Trumpet Major. The role of the Boy Drummer is discussed in relation to his importance on the battlefield and in the application of military discipline. 'With Trumpet Drum and Fife' is unique in its approach, is long overdue and fills a niche in military history.

Book Narratives of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Download or read book Narratives of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars written by C. Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland, drawing on an extensive range of personal testimonies by soldiers, sailors and civilians to shed new light on the social and cultural history of the period and the history of warfare more broadly.

Book A Soldier of the Seventy First

Download or read book A Soldier of the Seventy First written by Joseph Sinclair and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors sharp eye for the illuminating detail and the oddities of human behavior enabled him to present a picture of army life as graphic and revealing as any drawn by a private soldier during the Napoleonic Wars - Christopher HibbertThis remarkable memoir was first published in Edinburgh in 1819 and has withstood the test of time. One cannot improve on Sir Charles Omans description of the book as: the work of a man of superior education, who had enlisted in a moment of pique and humiliation to avoid facing at home the consequences of his own conceit and folly. The author wrote from the ranks, yet was so different in education and mental equipment from his comrades that he does not take their vices and habits for granted. The reader receives the narrative of an intelligent observer, describing the behavior of his regiment as it traveled the globe. His account covers Whitelocks disastrous South American adventure in 1806, the Peninsular War, the Walcheren Expedition and the Battle of Waterloo. For the first time, Joseph Sinclair has been unmasked as the author of the memoir, thanks to new research work by Stuart Reid.

Book The Eclectic Review

Download or read book The Eclectic Review written by Samuel Greatheed and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eclectic review  vol  1 New  8th

Download or read book The Eclectic review vol 1 New 8th written by and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing

Download or read book Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing written by Neil Ramsey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the genesis and development of modern war writing in relation to Romanticism, biopolitics and disciplinary theory.

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Critic

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Download or read book British Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Critic  Quarterly Theological Review  and Ecclesiastical Record

Download or read book British Critic Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Critic  and Quarterly Theological Review

Download or read book The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: