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Author : Philip J. Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Borgo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809575268
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victorian Colonial Wars written by Philip J. Haythornthwaite and published by Borgo Press. This book was released on 1989-04-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Frederick Featherstone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781874849544
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victorian Colonial Warfare - Africa written by Donald Frederick Featherstone and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Featherstone
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victorian Colonial Warfare written by Donald Featherstone and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'small war' was a particularly Victorian concern. Its course was followed with avid interest by the general public. Every setback and victory, every act of courage and cowardice was recorded and illustrated in the popular press.Nowhere was this more true than in Africa, where small wars came in three distinct types: campaigns of conquest or annexation, such as the 1879 campaign against Cetshwayo's Zulu Impis; campaigns for the suppression of an insurrection, such as those in East and West Africa, where many campaigns began as simple expeditions and ended by bringing vast territories under British rule; and campaigns to avenge an insult, designed to impose control without annexing territory, the Abyssinian Expedition of 1868 being a typical example.Only the Boer Wars of 1881 and 1897-1902 did not fit into one of these three patterns. Fought against an enemy armed with comparable weapons, the campaign of 1881 was the only war lost by British troops during the Victorian period.Donald Featherstone, an acknowledged expert on colonial warfare, has written a vivid and accurate account of the small wars in Africa, drawing heavily on the letters and first-hand reports of those who were there. His Victoria's Enemies was described by the Journal of the Royal Artillery as 'wide ranging ... well researched and excellent value ...'This book is published as part of the work of The History of Wargaming Project to document key works of Donald Featherstone.
Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393302356
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Queen Victoria's Little Wars written by Byron Farwell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1837 to 1901, in Asia, China, Canada, Africa, and elsewhere, military expedition were constantly being undertaken to protect resident Britons or British interests, to extend a frontier, to repel an attack, avenge an insult, or suppress a mutiny or rebellion. Continuous warfare became an accepted way of life in the Victorian era, and in the process the size of the British Empire quadrupled.But engrossing as these small wars are--and they bristle with bizarre, tragic, and often humorous incident--it is the officers and men who fought them that dominate this book. With their courage, foolhardiness, and eccentricities, they are an unforgettable lot.
Author : Donald Frederick Featherstone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781874849544
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victorian Colonial Warfare - Africa written by Donald Frederick Featherstone and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Featherstone
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victorian Colonial Warfare written by Donald Featherstone and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich and exotic sub-continent of India - the jewel in Britain's Imperial Crown - fascinated Victorian England. A handful of the nineteenth century's greatest adventurers made their names and fortunes there, while thousands at home avidly read the first-hand accounts reproduced in the pages of this book, describing the battles and gruelling campaigns which secured Britain's busy but relatively short tenure of the continent.From the conquest of Sind in 1843, when Sir Charles Napier defeated the Baluchi army and annexed the kingdom, to the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58 that outraged world opinion, Donald Featherstone has constructed a revealing account of the British Empire's most complex and fascinating period.The text is illustrated with 100 engravings, taken from magazines and news-papers of the time, and with its many contemporary quotations Victorian Colonial Warfare - India endows the reader with a real feel for the age.Donald Featherstone was an acknowledged expert on colonial warfare and wrote this book as a source book for wargaming.
Author : Stephen M. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108490123
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Queen Victoria's Wars written by Stephen M. Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a revised and updated history of thirteen of the most significant British conflicts during the Victorian period.
Author : Sean Willcock
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 13 : 9781913107246
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victorian Visions of War and Peace written by Sean Willcock and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian period In an era that saw the birth of photography (c. 1839) and the rise of the illustrated press (c. 1842), the British experience of their empire became increasingly defined by the processes and products of image-making. Examining moments of military and diplomatic crisis, this book considers how artists and photographers operating "in the field" helped to define British visions of war and peace. The Victorians increasingly turned to visual spectacle to help them compose imperial sovereignty. The British Empire was thus rendered into a spectacle of "peace," from world's fairs to staged diplomatic rituals. Yet this occurred against a backdrop of incessant colonial war--campaigns which, far from being ignored, were in fact unprecedentedly visible within the cultural forms of Victorian society. Visual media thus shaped the contours of imperial statecraft and established many of the aesthetic and ethical frames within which the colonial violence was confronted.
Author : Edward Spiers
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795463
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Victorian soldier in Africa written by Edward Spiers and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The Victorian soldier in Africa re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period, 1874–1902 – the zenith of the Victorian imperial expansion – and does so from the perspective of the regimental soldier. The book utilises an unprecedented number of letters and diaries, written by regimental officers and other ranks, to allow soldiers to speak for themselves about their experience of colonial warfare. The sources demonstrate the adaptability of the British army in fighting in different climates, over demanding terrain and against a diverse array of enemies. They also uncover soldiers’ responses to army reforms of the era as well as the response to the introduction of new technologies of war. Moreover, the book provides commentary on soldiers’ views of commanding officers and politicians alongside assessment of war correspondents, colonial auxiliaries and African natives in their roles as bearers, allies and enemies. This book reveals new insights on imperial and racial attitudes within the army, on relations between soldiers and the media and the production of information and knowledge from frontline to homefront. It will make fascinating reading for students, academics and enthusiasts in imperial history, Victorian studies, military history and colonial warfare.
Author : Harold E. Raugh Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576079260
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Victorians at War, 1815-1914 written by Harold E. Raugh Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-10-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the strength of the British Army from 1815 to 1914, this groundbreaking reference presents the most recent research on the most significant wars, campaigns, battles, and leaders. The Victorians at War*, 1815–1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History surveys the major wars, campaigns, battles, and expeditions of the British Army as well as its weaponry, tactics, and all other aspects of its operations from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the dawn of World War I. Containing numerous maps depicting various theaters of war, this all-encompassing volume explains why the numerous military operations took place and what the results were. Biographies reveal fascinating facts about British and Indian Army officers and other ranks, while other entries deal with recruitment, training, education and literacy, uniforms, equipment, pay and conditions, social backgrounds of the soldiers, diseases and wounds they fell victim to, and much more. This volume is indispensable to those wanting to gain information about the British Army during this remarkable imperial era.
