Download or read book The History of Coast Artillery in the British Army written by Colonel K. W. Maurice-Jones and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book History of Coast Artillery in the British Army written by K. W. Maurice-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The History of Coast Artillery in the British Army Etc With Maps and a Bibliography written by Kenneth Wyn Maurice Jones and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Coast Artillery in the British Army Seventeen Maps written by Kenneth Wyn Maurice JONES and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coast Artillery Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coast Artillery Journal Volume 57 written by Coast Artillery Training Center (U S ) and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coast Artillery Journal is a fascinating glimpse into the history of the United States Army's coastal defense system. This publication covers a wide range of topics related to coastal artillery, including tactics and training, equipment, and historical accounts of battles. Anyone interested in military history or the history of the United States will find this publication both informative and engaging. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Coast Artillery Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Royal Artillery from the Indian Mutiny to the Great War written by Sir John Emerson Wharton Headlam and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coastal Defences of the British Empire in the Revolutionary Napoleonic Eras written by Daniel S. MacCannell and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far more than an architecture book, Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775–1815 is a sweeping reinterpretation of the Martello towers, Grand Redoubts, Royal Military Canal and other new defence infrastructure of the Napoleonic War. Lavishly illustrated with period maps, views, portraits, cartoons and newly commissioned color photographs, it includes not only these structures’ forerunners, and plans that were never executed, but also the grand strategy that informed them. At its best, this saw Britain’s position as a vast land battle, with the deadly threat of the French-held Antwerp navy yards on its own ‘left wing’, and Lisbon as the enemy’s ‘weak left’ to be ‘turned’. The book also takes in the astonishingly inventive, bold and bloody small-boat wars that raged from the Baltic and Channel coast to Chesapeake Bay and Lake Ontario, and provides vivid pen-sketches of the now-obscure and sometimes deeply flawed strategic visionaries, engineers, inventors, and fighting men who held the line as – even after Trafalgar – the forces of an ever more powerful French empire circled like sharks. Along the way, it traces a fundamental change in the nature of war and society: from a ponderous game of fortresses and colonies played by rulers, to murderous ‘foot by foot’ defence of the whole territory of the nation by ‘both sexes and every social type’.
Download or read book Pictorial History Eighty Fifth Coast Artillery AA Semi mobile United States Army 1942 written by United States. Army. 85th Coast Artillery (AA) and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Royal Artillery from the Indian Mutiny to the Great War Volume II 1899 1914 written by John Sir Headlam and published by . This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues the theme of the development of the Royal Artillery during the run-up to the Great War, fifteen years compared with the forty of VoL I, fifteen years devoted to definite preparation in which the developments in Organization, Armament and Training discussed in Vol I were co-ordinated to a common aim. On the other hand the breach between branches was widened by the separation between mounted and dismounted, and the general trend towards spacialization. So, in this volume a different method has been adopted in which the developments of each branch are recorded separately in three parts - The Field Army Artillery, The Siege Artillery and the Coast Artillery. Part V has a couple of chapters on the Auxiliary Artillery which included the Militia, Volunteers, the Special Reserve and the Territorial Force. The final Part VI deals with Regimental Institutions such as the Remount Department, the Riding Establishment, the RA Institution, the Artillery College, Gunnery courses, the RMA, the RA Mess and the Bands. One of the appendices provides a chart showing the distribution of units as on 1 Aug 1914. There is a very comprehensive index
Download or read book The Coast Artillery Journal Volume 64 Number 1 January 1926 written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of The Coast Artillery Journal contains the following articles: "Sea Power: Maritime War," by Captain T.C. Hart, U.S. Navy; "An R.O.T.C. Target Practice," by Captain C.D.Y. Ostrom, C.A.C.; "Antiaircraft Ordnance -- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," by Major G.M. Barnes, Ordnance Department; "An Interesting Chapter in the Development of Small Arms," by Lieutenant Colonel S.G. Shartle, 10th C.A.; "General Spotting Requirements: Coast Artillery Board Project No. 416"; "Annual Report of the Chief of Coast Artillery"; and "British Coast Defense." The remainder of the issue contains the following features: editorials on Warlike America, Great Artillerymen, and What are the Causes of War?; Professional notes on chemical warfare, Training Camp for the 601st Coast Artillery (Railway), More Dope about Spotting, Our Navy and Navy Day, Doctoring the Searchlight Controller, "War or Peace"--The Forum (October 1925), Washington's Crossing of the Delaware, The Origin of Insignia of Rank, and Antiaircraft Artillery; Military notes on field equipment weight reduction in the British Army, French medical evacuation service in Morocco, and combined Army and Air Service maneuvers in Italy; Coast Artillery Board Notes; listing of books recently cataloged at the Coast Artillery School Library; and book reviews.
Download or read book The Service of Coast Artillery Classic Reprint written by Frank T. Hines and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Service of Coast Artillery Few words are needed to'state the purpose of this work. It represents an earnest attempt to furnish an informative book for the use of coast artillerists With special reference to militia duty in coast defense. The organization of the United States Coast Artillery presents a need which the National Government is not Wholly able to supply. The Coast Artillery Corps of the United States Army at its present strength cannot provide at the utmost for more than, one-half Of one manning detail for the armament of our far-reaching coast fortifications. To supply this deficiency in personnel Congress has authorized the development of a Coast Artillery Reserve to which various coastwise states have transferred specially qualified regiments of infantry from their militia organizations. In these regiments, and in other organizations not so transferred Whose services will be required as Coast Artillery Supports and Coast Guard, are many officers and men desirous of fitting themselves for the technical service Of coast defense. A complete programme Of instruction has been issued by the War Department, and it is to supplement this, ' as well as to furnish a suitable reference book for the Regular personnel, that the present work was prepared. 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 Ubique written by Richard Doherty and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Richard Doherty's latest book he looks at the wide-ranging role of the Royal Artillery (RA) during the Second World War, examining its state of preparedness in 1939, the many developments that were introduced during the War, including aerial observation and self-propelled artillery, the growth of the regiment and its effectiveness in its many roles. It is illustrated with stories of the actions of individuals from members of gun detachments to general officers. During the Second World War the Germans assessed the Royal Artillery as the most professional arm of the British Army. British gunners were accurate, effective and efficient and provided fire support for their armoured and infantry colleagues that was better than that in any other army. It is often claimed that British artillery came into its own after the Battle of El Alamein in late 1942. In the opening bombardment of Operation Lightfoot, the massed artillery of the Eighth Army hammered Axis positions and severely damaged the enemy artillery's ability to react. But this was not the first occasion on which the Eighth Army had massed its artillery: it had done so with 200 guns along the Alamein Line in July, and the effectiveness had long been recognised. In fact, the power of a concentrated shoot had been shown by one gunner regiment during the May 1940 Dunkirk campaign. However, the RA provided much more than field and medium artillery battlefield support. Gunner regiments manned anti-tank guns on the frontline and light anti-aircraft guns in divisional regiments to defend against air attack at home and abroad. The RA also helped to protect convoys that brought essential supplies to Britain, and AA gunners had their finest hour when they destroyed the majority of the V-1 flying bombs launched against Britain from June 1944.
Download or read book Regimental History written by United States. Army. Coast Artillery Regiment, 64th and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King of Battle written by Boyd L. Dastrup and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maneuver and Firepower written by John B. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
