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Book The  ever victorious Army

Download or read book The ever victorious Army written by Andrew Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The  Ever Victorious Army

Download or read book The Ever Victorious Army written by Andrew Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1868 work recounts an early success of the future Gordon of Khartoum, in China in 1863-1864.

Book Mercenaries and Mandarins

Download or read book Mercenaries and Mandarins written by Richard Joseph Smith and published by Kto Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The  ever victorious Army   A History of the Chinese Campaign Under St   Col  C  G  Gordon and of the Suppression of the Tai Ping Rebellion

Download or read book The ever victorious Army A History of the Chinese Campaign Under St Col C G Gordon and of the Suppression of the Tai Ping Rebellion written by Andrew Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ever victorious Army a History of the Chinese Campaign Under Lt Col C  G  Gordon  CB  RE  and of the Suppression of the Tai Ping Rebellion by Andrew Wilson

Download or read book The Ever victorious Army a History of the Chinese Campaign Under Lt Col C G Gordon CB RE and of the Suppression of the Tai Ping Rebellion by Andrew Wilson written by Andrew Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of General Gordon

Download or read book The Story of General Gordon written by Jean Lang and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major General Charles George Gordon, also known as 'Chinese Gordon' or 'Gordon Pasha', was a British Army officer and administrator. He saw action in the Crimean War and made his military reputation in China, where he was placed in command of the "Ever Victorious Army", a force of Chinese soldiers led by European officers which was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion, regularly defeating much larger forces. This little illustrated book tell his story in a language comprehendible for children and youths.

Book Toward Combined Arms Warfare

Download or read book Toward Combined Arms Warfare written by Jonathan Mallory House and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Armies of the Nineteenth Century  China

Download or read book Armies of the Nineteenth Century China written by Ian Heath and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Heath has assembled 183 line drawings and 39 photographs to illustrate the huge array of costumes and uniforms worn during this period. Coverage includes the Taipeng and Boxer rebellions, Formosa, the Mongols and Gordon's Ever Victorious Army. Ian Heath's accompanying text is one of the most coherent accounts available of Chinese history during this turbulent period. Includes extensive bibliography. All the volumes in this series have a high quality traditional gold-embossed cloth cover and no dust jacket.

Book Nothing but Victory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven E. Woodworth
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2006-10-17
  • ISBN : 0375726608
  • Pages : 796 pages

Download or read book Nothing but Victory written by Steven E. Woodworth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed almost entirely of Midwesterners and molded into a lean, skilled fighting machine by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, the Army of the Tennessee marched directly into the heart of the Confederacy and won major victories at Shiloh and at the rebel strongholds of Vicksburg and Atlanta.Acclaimed historian Steven Woodworth has produced the first full consideration of this remarkable unit that has received less prestige than the famed Army of the Potomac but was responsible for the decisive victories that turned the tide of war toward the Union. The Army of the Tennessee also shaped the fortunes and futures of both Grant and Sherman, liberating them from civilian life and catapulting them onto the national stage as their triumphs grew. A thrilling account of how a cohesive fighting force is forged by the heat of battle and how a confidence born of repeated success could lead soldiers to expect “nothing but victory.”

Book Chinese Maps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Joseph Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Chinese Maps written by Richard Joseph Smith and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two thousand years the Chinese Emporer, self-proclaimed ruler of `All under Heaven', demanded the obedience not only of his subjects within China but also of peoples throughout the known world. Maps played a crucial role in the administration of this vast system of states. Charts of foreign lands and images of the `barbarians' that populated them presented the world as the Chinese wanted it to be seen: with the Middle Kingdom as lord and other states as vassals paying tribute to it. In this richly illustrated history, Richard J. Smithshows how the Chinese depicted foreign lands and peoples in maps and encyclopedias through the centuries. He discusses the debates surrounding the production of maps, as well as their technical aspects and political, military and administrative uses. Reproductions of many of the most beautiful and noteworthy maps of the Chinese world accompany the text. More than simple refelections of the lands and peoples they depict, these maps and illustrations are documents that reveal the evolving values of the grand and powerful society that produced them

Book Frederick Townsend Ward and the Ever Victorious Army

Download or read book Frederick Townsend Ward and the Ever Victorious Army written by Richard Joseph Smith and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fighting to the End

Download or read book Fighting to the End written by C. Christine Fair and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pakistan Army is poised for perpetual conflict with India which it cannot win militarily or politically. What explains Pakistan's persistent revisionism despite increasing costs and decreasing likelihood of success? This book argues that an understanding of the army's strategic culture explains its willingness to fight to the end

Book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

Download or read book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom written by Stephen R. Platt and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles--a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China. The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China's future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China's modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure. This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.

Book The Marne 15 July   6 August 1918

Download or read book The Marne 15 July 6 August 1918 written by Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson and published by . This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book River Gunboats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roger Branfill-Cook
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2016-08-30
  • ISBN : 1848323808
  • Pages : 1268 pages

Download or read book River Gunboats written by Roger Branfill-Cook and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, fully illustrated encyclopedia of river gunboats from the early 19th century to the present day. The first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when in 1824 the Honorable East India Company’s gunboat Diana went into action on the Irrawaddy in Burma. In the 150 years that followed, river gunboats played a significant part in over forty campaigns and individual actions around the world. This comprehensive reference book covers the development of riverboat warfare from the early 19th century to current riverine combat vessels in service today. River gunboats proved to be the decisive factor in a wide range of conflicts across the world—from the New Zealand Wars to the American Civil War, and from both World Wars to the conflicts in Indochina and Vietnam. This lavishly illustrated encyclopedia describes the river gunboats that saw action, plus those converted river steamers which took part in combat. This volume also includes maps of the river systems where they operated, together with narratives of the principal actions involving river gunboats.

Book Financial Breakthrough

Download or read book Financial Breakthrough written by Travis Moody and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travis Moody shares his personal story of how he went from being $100,000 in debt to debt free in just three years and the spiritual truths and biblical lessons he learned along the way. Intended to help those who may be trapped by their debt situation, Financial Breakthrough discusses why we get into debt, how debt affects our lives, what the Bible has to say about debt, specific steps you can take to get out of debt, and wealth-building tips for a life after debt.

Book Fortune tellers and Philosophers

Download or read book Fortune tellers and Philosophers written by Richard J Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an analysis of Chinese divination as a means of organizing and interpreting reality, Richard Smith examines a wide variety of mantic techniques - from the use of the hallowed Yjing to such popular practices as siting (geomancy), astrology, numerology, physiognomy, the analysis of written characters, meteorological divination, the use of mediums (including spirit-writing), and dream interpretation. As he explains the pervasiveness and tenacity of divination in China, the author explores not only the connections between various mantic techniques but also the relationship between divination and other facets of Chinese culture, including philosophy, science and medicine. He discusses the symbolism of divination, its aesthetics, its ritual aspects, and its psychological and social significance, pointing out that in traditional China divination helped to order the future, just as history helped to order the past, and rituals the present.