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Book The British Pattern 1796 Cavalry Sword and Other Derivatives

Download or read book The British Pattern 1796 Cavalry Sword and Other Derivatives written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Cavalry Sword From 1600

Download or read book The British Cavalry Sword From 1600 written by Charles Martyn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book British Military Swords 1786 1912

Download or read book British Military Swords 1786 1912 written by Harvey J. Withers and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRINTED ON DEMAND BY AMAZON CREATESPACE FULLY UPDATED AND REVISED If you collect British military swords you will need this book Containing over 1500 unpublished full colour photographs and illustrations, it is the first full colour price guide for collectors of British regulation military swords. The book contains detailed photographs of all the British regulation sword patterns from 1786 - 1912. Includes: Fully Updated Price Guide Infantry Swords Cavalry Swords Scottish Swords General Officers' Swords Naval Swords Departmental Swords British Sword Maker/Retailer Index Close-up shots of Blade & Hilt Sword Markings Wilkinson Sword Serial Number Index Sword Knots Wilkinson Sword serial number date index The book also contains a short history of the Wilkinson Company, including a detailed examination of how a Wilkinson Sword was manufactured. The Wilkinson Sword serial number date index from 1854 has also been reproduced to enable collectors to accurately date their Wilkinson swords. In addition, there are illustrated excerpts from the 1796 Sword Exercise for Cavalry by Napoleonic British cavalry officer, Gaspard Le Marchant, as well as comprehensive sections on collecting antique swords today, the care and preservation of antique swords and a comprehensive bibliography. The Foreword is written by the renowned edged weapons author, Frederick Wilkinson. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND BY AMAZON VIA CREATESPACE AND NOT THE PUBLISHER.

Book The british cavalry sword 1788 1912   some new perspectives

Download or read book The british cavalry sword 1788 1912 some new perspectives written by Richard Dellar and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book BRITISH CAVALRY SWORD 1788   1912

Download or read book BRITISH CAVALRY SWORD 1788 1912 written by RICHARD. DELLAR and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Popular Antiques Yearbook

Download or read book The Popular Antiques Yearbook written by Huon Mallalieu and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CATALOGUED AS SERIAL, SEE BRN 356661.

Book The Waterloo Roll Call

Download or read book The Waterloo Roll Call written by Charles Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Continental System

Download or read book The Continental System written by Eli Filip Heckscher and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boys  Book of Famous Rulers

Download or read book The Boys Book of Famous Rulers written by Lydia Hoyt Farmer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

Book Soldiers as Workers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Mansfield (Historian)
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 1781382786
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Soldiers as Workers written by Nick Mansfield (Historian) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book outlines how class is single most important factor in understanding the British army in the period of industrialisation. It challenges the 'ruffians officered by gentlemen' theory of most military histories and demonstrates how service in the ranks was not confined to 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of 'respectable' working class men. Common soldiers represent a huge unstudied occupational group. They worked as artisans, servants and dealers, displaying pre-enlistment working class attitudes and evidencing low level class conflict in numerous ways. Soldiers continued as members of the working class after discharge, with military service forming one phase of their careers and overall life experience. After training, most common soldiers had time on their hands and were allowed to work at a wide variety of jobs, analysed here for the first time. Many serving soldiers continued to work as regimental tradesmen, or skilled artificers. Others worked as officers' servants or were allowed to run small businesses, providing goods and services to their comrades. Some, especially the Non Commissioned Officers who actually ran the army, forged extraordinary careers which surpassed any opportunities in civilian life. All the soldiers studied retained much of their working class way of life. This was evidenced in a contract culture similar to that of the civilian trade unions. Within disciplined boundaries, army life resulted in all sorts of low level class conflict. The book explores these by covering drinking, desertion, feigned illness, self harm, strikes and go-slows. It further describes mutinies, back chat, looting, fraternisation, foreign service, suicide and even the shooting of unpopular officers.

Book Witnesses to History

Download or read book Witnesses to History written by Lyndel V. Prott and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Compendium gives an outline of the historical, philosophical and ethical aspects of the return of cultural objects (e.g. cultural objects displaced during war or in colonial contexts), cites past and present cases (Maya Temple Facade, Nigerian Bronzes, United States of America v. Schultz, Parthenon Marbles and many more) and analyses legal issues (bona fide, relevant UNESCO and UNIDROIT Conventions, Supreme Court Decisions, procedure for requests etc.). It is a landmark publication that bears testament to the ways in which peoples have lost their entire cultural heritage and analyses the issue of its return and restitution by providing a wide range of perspectives on this subject. Essential reading for students, specialists, scholars and decision-makers as well as those interested in these topics.

Book    The    French Revolution

Download or read book The French Revolution written by Hippolyte Taine and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Angelo s Bayonet Exercise

Download or read book Angelo s Bayonet Exercise written by Henry Charles Angelo and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross Huntingdonshire  1796 to 1816

Download or read book The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross Huntingdonshire 1796 to 1816 written by Thomas James Walker and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Japanese Sword

Download or read book The Japanese Sword written by Kanzan Satō and published by Kodansha International. This book was released on 1983 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the foremost experts on the Japanese sword describes their history andppreciations in this book, with photographs and illustrations.

Book Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture

Download or read book Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture written by Jane Fenoulhet and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.

Book A Military History of the Ottomans

Download or read book A Military History of the Ottomans written by Mesut Uyar Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ottoman Army had a significant effect on the history of the modern world and particularly on that of the Middle East and Europe. This study, written by a Turkish and an American scholar, is a revision and corrective to western accounts because it is based on Turkish interpretations, rather than European interpretations, of events. As the world's dominant military machine from 1300 to the mid-1700's, the Ottoman Army led the way in military institutions, organizational structures, technology, and tactics. In decline thereafter, it nevertheless remained a considerable force to be counted in the balance of power through 1918. From its nomadic origins, it underwent revolutions in military affairs as well as several transformations which enabled it to compete on favorable terms with the best of armies of the day. This study tracks the growth of the Ottoman Army as a professional institution from the perspective of the Ottomans themselves, by using previously untapped Ottoman source materials. Additionally, the impact of important commanders and the role of politics, as these affected the army, are examined. The study concludes with the Ottoman legacy and its effect on the Republic and modern Turkish Army. This is a study survey that combines an introductory view of this subject with fresh and original reference-level information. Divided into distinct periods, Uyar and Erickson open with a brief overview of the establishment of the Ottoman Empire and the military systems that shaped the early military patterns. The Ottoman army emerged forcefully in 1453 during the siege of Constantinople and became a dominant social and political force for nearly two hundred years following Mehmed's capture of the city. When the army began to show signs of decay during the mid-seventeenth century, successive Sultans actively sought to transform the institution that protected their power. The reforms and transformations that began frist in 1606successfully preserved the army until the outbreak of the Ottoman-Russian War in 1876. Though the war was brief, its impact was enormous as nationalistic and republican strains placed increasing pressure on the Sultan and his army until, finally, in 1918, those strains proved too great to overcome. By 1923, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk emerged as the leader of a unified national state ruled by a new National Parliament. As Uyar and Erickson demonstrate, the old army of the Sultan had become the army of the Republic, symbolizing the transformation of a dying empire to the new Turkish state make clear that throughout much of its existence, the Ottoman Army was an effective fighting force with professional military institutions and organizational structures.