Queen Victoria's Wars - 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 Queen Victoria's Wars write by Stephen M. Miller. This book was released on 2021-06-17. Queen Victoria's Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a revised and updated history of thirteen of the most significant British conflicts during the Victorian period.
Queen Victoria's Little Wars
Queen Victoria's Little Wars - 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 Queen Victoria's Little Wars write by Byron Farwell. This book was released on 1985. Queen Victoria's Little Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Victoria's Wars
Victoria's Wars - 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 Victoria's Wars write by Saul David. This book was released on 2006. Victoria's Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the period known as the 'Dual Monarchy', from Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 to the death of her husband Albert in 1861, the British Empire almost quintupled in size. Its cities, canals, railways and telegraphs were changing the face of continents. It was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen.This is the story of that extraordinary quarter century of imperial conquest and the people who made it happen: the politicians, colonial administrators, businessmen, generals and ordinary soldiers.In a fast-moving narrative that ranges from the ministries and royal residences of London to the harsh terrain of India, Russia and the Far East, Saul David shows how Britain ruthlessly exploited her position as the world's only superpower to expand her empire. Yet little of this territorial acquisition was planned or sanctioned by the home government. Instead it was largely the work of the men on the ground, and to those at home it really did seem that the empire was acquired in a 'fit of absence of mind'.Using a wealth of archival material, Saul David creates a vivid portrait of life on the violent fringes of empire, and of the seemingly endless, brutal and often unnecessary wars that were fought in the name of trade, civilization and the balance of power.
Victoria's Wars
Victoria's Wars - 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 Victoria's Wars write by Ian Frederick William Beckett. This book was released on 1974. Victoria's Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Imperial Echoes
Imperial Echoes - 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 Imperial Echoes write by Robert Giddings. This book was released on 1994-04-25. Imperial Echoes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The years between the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 are sometimes described as 'The Long Peace', the there were in fact British Soldiers fighting somewhere in the world throughout the whole of that period, usually in an effort to restore order in some far-flung parts of the Empire 'upon which the sun never set.' Although these campaigns have been well documented by numerous historians, Robbert Giddings, well known as author, journalist and writer for radio and television, here adopts an entirely new approach and relies largely on first-hand accounts to show not mealy what happened but what it was actually like to be there. His sources are many and varied and not confined the the soldier's own records. Nothing, for instance, could surpass in vividness Florentia Sale's brilliant account of the terrible retreat from Kabulin 1842. Due respect is also paid to the courage of the opposition. As Lieutenant Charles Townshend wrote after Omdurman in 1898, 'The Valour of these poor half-starved Dervishes...would be graced by Thermopylae.' The book continues eye-witness accounts from the following campaigns and minor wars: Maratha, Gurkha, Burmese, Ashanti, opium, Afghan, Maori, Sikh, Kaffir, Persian, Abyssinian, Zulu, Boer, Egyptian, Sudanese and Matabele. The list alone shows how busy the British Soldier was throughout the nineteenth century. The text itself brilliantly recapture the nature of soldiering in that era.
