The British Regular Mounted Infantry 1880 - 1913 Cavalry of Poverty Or Victorian Paradigm? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Regular Mounted Infantry 1880 - 1913 Cavalry of Poverty Or Victorian Paradigm? write by Andrew Philip Winrow. This book was released on 2014. The British Regular Mounted Infantry 1880 - 1913 Cavalry of Poverty Or Victorian Paradigm? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880–1913
The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880–1913 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880–1913 write by Andrew Winrow. This book was released on 2016-11-03. The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880–1913 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horseback in the traditional manner of cavalry, they used horses primarily to move swiftly about the battlefield, where they would then dismount and fight on foot, thus anticipating the development of mechanised infantry tactics during the twentieth century. Yet despite this apparent foresight, the mounted infantry concept was abandoned by the British Army in 1913, just at the point when it may have made the transition from a colonial to a continental force as part of the British Expeditionary Force. Exploring the historical background to the Mounted Infantry, this book untangles the debates that raged in the army, Parliament and the press between its advocates and the supporters of the established cavalry. With its origins in the extemporised mounted detachments raised during times of crisis from infantry battalions on overseas imperial garrison duties, Dr Winrow reveals how the Mounted Infantry model, unique among European armies, evolved into a formalised and apparently highly successful organisation of non-cavalry mounted troops. He then analyses why the Mounted Infantry concept fell out of favour just eleven years after its apogee during the South African Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. As such the book will be of interest not only to historians of the nineteenth-century British army, but also those tracing the development of modern military doctrine and tactics, to which the Mounted Infantry provided successful - if short lived - inspiration.
Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare
Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare write by Daniel Whittingham. This book was released on 2020-01-16. Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents the first full-length study of one of Britain's most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E. Callwell.
A British Profession of Arms
A British Profession of Arms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A British Profession of Arms write by Ian F. W. Beckett. This book was released on 2018-10-25. A British Profession of Arms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “You offer yourself to be slain,” General Sir John Hackett once observed, remarking on the military profession. “This is the essence of being a soldier.” For this reason as much as any other, the British army has invariably been seen as standing apart from other professions—and sometimes from society as a whole. A British Profession of Arms effectively counters this view. In this definitive study of the late Victorian army, distinguished scholar Ian F. W. Beckett finds that the British soldier, like any other professional, was motivated by considerations of material reward and career advancement. Within the context of debates about both the evolution of Victorian professions and the nature of military professionalism, Beckett considers the late Victorian officer corps as a case study for weighing distinctions between the British soldier and his civilian counterparts. Beckett examines the role of personality, politics, and patronage in the selection and promotion of officers. He looks, too, at the internal and external influences that extended from the press and public opinion to the rivalry of the so-called rings of adherents of major figures such as Garnet Wolseley and Frederick Roberts. In particular, he considers these processes at play in high command in the Second Afghan War (1878–81), the Anglo-Zulu War (1879), and the South African War (1899–1902). Based on more than thirty years of research into surviving official, semiofficial, and private correspondence, Beckett’s work offers an intimate and occasionally amusing picture of what might affect an officer’s career: wealth, wives, and family status; promotion boards and strategic preferences; performance in the field and diplomatic outcomes. It is a remarkable depiction of the British profession of arms, unparalleled in breadth, depth, and detail.
Sport, War and the British
Sport, War and the British - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sport, War and the British write by Peter Donaldson. This book was released on 2020-03-10. Sport, War and the British available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanning the colonial campaigns of the Victorian age to the War on Terror after 9/11, this study explores the role sport was perceived to have played in the lives and work of military personnel, and examines how sporting language and imagery were deployed to shape and reconfigure civilian society’s understanding of conflict. From 1850 onwards war reportage – complemented and reinforced by a glut of campaign histories, memoirs, novels and films – helped create an imagined community in which sporting attributes and qualities were employed to give meaning and order to the chaos and misery of warfare. This work explores the evolution of the Victorian notion that playing-field and battlefield were connected and then moves on to investigate the challenges this belief faced in the twentieth century, as combat became, initially, industrialised in the age of total warfare and, subsequently, professionalised in the post-nuclear world. Such a longitudinal study allows, for the first time, new light to be shed on the continuities and shifts in the way the ‘reality’ of war was captured in the British popular imagination. Drawing together the disparate fields of sport and warfare, this book serves as a vital point of reference for anyone with an interest in the cultural, social or military history of modern Britain.
