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Book A List of the Officers of the Army and Marines

Download or read book A List of the Officers of the Army and Marines written by Great Britain. War Office and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A List of the Officers of the Army and Marines  with an Index

Download or read book A List of the Officers of the Army and Marines with an Index written by Great Britain. War Office and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines

Download or read book A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines written by Great Britain. War Office and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Britannia   s Palette

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas Tracy
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2007-02-09
  • ISBN : 0773575855
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Britannia s Palette written by Nicholas Tracy and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-02-09 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815. This band of brothers, through their artistic and entrepreneurial efforts, established the images of the war at sea that were central to the understanding their contemporaries had of events - images that endure to this day. In this unprecedented book, Nicholas Tracy reveals the importance of the self-employed artist to the study of a nation at war. He includes lively accounts of serving officers, retired sailors, and academy-trained artists who, often under the threat of debtor's prison, struggled to balance the standards of art with the public desire for heroic, reassuring images. Containing over eighty illustrations, Britannia's Palette explores a varied and exciting collection of paintings that reveal the poignancy of the human experience of war.

Book Lexis and Texts in Early English

Download or read book Lexis and Texts in Early English written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers reflect the long and distinguished career of Professor Jane Roberts in the field of medieval English studies, and especially her pioneering work on A Thesaurus of Old English, which provides novel source material for several of the contributions to the volume. Many of the papers deal with aspects of early lexicology and lexicography, while others focus on linguistic and literary features of Old and Middle English texts and their interpretation. They will thus be of interest to researchers in many areas of early English. A special introductory article describes the interlinked development of A Thesaurus of Old English, The Historical Thesaurus of English, and the proposed Thesaurus of Middle English. Contributors include: Rosamund Allen, Janet M. Bately, Carole P. Biggam, Michelle Brown, Julie Coleman, Janet Cowen, Jodi-Ann George, Joyce Hill, Rosemary Huisman, Giovanni Iarmartino, George Kane, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Michiko Ogura, Peter Orton, Jeremy J. Smith, E.G. Stanley, Paul Szarmach, Ronald Waldron.

Book A List of the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on Full and Half pay

Download or read book A List of the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on Full and Half pay written by Great Britain. Army and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old and New World Highland Bagpiping

Download or read book Old and New World Highland Bagpiping written by John Graham Gibson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton.The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fitted unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources. Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world Gaelic lore-bearers, John Gibson shows that traditional community piping in both the old and new world Gàihealtachlan was, and for a long time remained, the same, exposing the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping. Following up the argument in his previous book, Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, Gibson traces the shift from tradition to modernism in the old world through detailed genealogies, focusing on how the social function of the Scottish piper changed and step-dance piping progressively disappeared. Old and New World Highland Bagpiping will stir controversy and debate in the piping world while providing reminders of the value of oral history and the importance of describing cultural phenomena with great care and detail.

Book A List of All the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on Full and Half pay

Download or read book A List of All the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on Full and Half pay written by and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of All the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on Full and Half Pay  with an Index  and a Succession of Colonels

Download or read book List of All the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on Full and Half Pay with an Index and a Succession of Colonels written by Great Britain. War Office and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier  Sallee  Mogodore  Santa Cruz  Tarudant

Download or read book A Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier Sallee Mogodore Santa Cruz Tarudant written by William Lempriere and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier

Download or read book A Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier written by William Lempriere and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sotheran s Price Current of Literature

Download or read book Sotheran s Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book King George s Army   British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793 1815

Download or read book King George s Army British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793 1815 written by Steve Brown and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King George’s Army: British Regiments and the Men who Led Them 1793–1815 will contain five volumes, with coverage given to cavalry regiments (Volume 1), infantry regiments (Volumes 2–4), and Ordnance and other regiments (Volume 5). It is the natural extension to the web series of the same name by the same author which existed one Napoleon Series from 2009 until 2019, but greatly expanded to include substantially more biographical information including biographies of leading political gures concerned with the administration of the army as well as commanders in chief of all major commands. Volume 1 covers in great detail the cavalry regiments that comprised the army of King George III for the period of the Great War with France, and the men who commanded them. Regimental data provided includes shortform regimental lineages, service locations and dispositions for the era, battle honors won, tables of authorized establishments, demographics of the field officer cohorts and of the men. But the book is essentially concerned with the field officers, the lieutenant colonels and majors who commanded the regiments, and Volume 1 alone contains over 1,000 mini-biographies of men who commanded the regiments, including their dates of birth and death, parentage, education, career (including political), awards and honors, and places of residence. Volumes 2 to 5 will extend the coverage to ultimately record over 4,500 biographies across more than 200 regiments. These biographies will show the regimental system in action, officers routinely transferring between regiments for advancement or opportunity, captains who were also (brevet) colonels, many who retired early, some who stayed the distance to become major generals and beyond. Where it has been possible to accurately ascertain, advancement by purchase, exchange or promotion has also been noted. Readers with military ancestors will no doubt find much of interest within, and the author hopes that the work will allow readers to break down a few ‘brick walls’; either through connecting to the officers recorded, or through an understanding of the movements of the regiments around the world, or from the volunteering patterns of the militia regiments into the regular army. Encyclopedic in scope, and aimed to be a lasting source of reference material for the British army that fought the French Revolution and Napoleon between 1793 and 1815, King George’s Army: British Regiments and the Men who Led Them will be a necessary addition to every military and family history library for years to come.

Book A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution  The general library

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution The general library written by London Institution. Library and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book By Fire and Bayonet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Brown
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2018-04-05
  • ISBN : 1912866943
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book By Fire and Bayonet written by Steve Brown and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been few books about Grey's glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey's expeditionary force went on to command divisions in Wellington's Peninsula army; another two commanded the Iron Duke's Royal Artillery; and one (Richard Fletcher) - famously - the Royal Engineers. The tactics used by Sir Charles Grey were as far removed as can be imagined from the traditional image of the two-deep British line delivering massed volleys at pointblank range. The invasions of Martinique, St Lucia and Guadeloupe were raids undertaken by Special Forces, who were instructed to operate in open order, in silence and at bayonet-point; all attacks went in with unloaded muskets. Most of the heavy-duty fighting was undertaken by converged flank battalions, grenadiers and light infantrymen - assembled under hand-picked field officers and used as stormtroopers in every major assault; here were French revolutionary war tactics that are largely unexplored and largely undocumented (at least in modern times). Sir Charles Grey was one of the most aggressive British generals of the era - something his gentlemanly appearance and demeanor did not immediately indicate. Ever cheerful and optimistic - and humane and loyal to his friends - his ability to deliver needle-sharp assaults and then harry a defeated enemy (the latter being something at which British generals of the Napoleonic era were distinctly mediocre) makes him one of the more interesting personalities of the early portion of the 'Great War with France'. If he was not ultimately unsuccessful, it was not his fault: he was robbed of the resources he needed at the outset; then given virtually no reinforcements by Horse Guards. The great killer on this campaign was not the French... it was disease: principally, Yellow Fever. Of the 6,200 men who landed with Grey on Martinique in February 1794, some 4,100 were dead by Christmas - such then is By Fire and Bayonet an account of a very dramatic period for the British Army in the West Indies. It took many years to learn the lessons presented by the campaign, but for the young officers who survived, it provided some invaluable lessons that were put to good use 15 or 20 years later in the British Army of a later era.