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  • Britain at Bay

    Defence Against Bonaparte, 1803-14

    Serier serie Historical Problems
    In the years 1803-5 Napoleon Bonaparte built 4 new harbours on his channel coast and assembled enough landing craft to put an army of over 165,000 men ashore on English beaches. Was this threat to Britain really serious and should we dismiss it as pure Bluff? Why was it never revived after Bonaparte's continental wars against the Russians, Austrians and Prussians? What did the English do about ... Læs mere

    343,22 kr.

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  • British Battles of the Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1806

    Redigeret af John Grehan, Martin Mace ...
    Serier Bog 1 - Despatches from the Front
    The Napoleonic Wars was truly a world-wide conflict and Britain found itself engaged in battles, sieges and amphibious operations around the globe. Following every battle the commanding officer submitted a report back to the Admiralty or the War Office. Presented here together for the first time are those original despatches from some forty generals, captains and admirals detailing more than ... Læs mere

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  • In Nelson's Wake

    The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

    af James Davey ...
    Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: An "impressive" account of how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon's ultimate defeat ( International Journal of Military History).Horatio Nelson's celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy's role in the struggle against Napoleonic France ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Invasion

    From The Armada to Hitler (1588-1945)

    af Frank McLynn ...
    Most people know that Britain was invaded by the Romans, by the Vikings and by the Normans. Many will know about the Spanish Armada, launched by Philip II in 1588 to bring Protestant England to submission. But fewer people know that Philip launched a second armada in 1596 or that invasion plans were drawn up by the French in 1692, 1708, 1743, 1756, 1759, 1796 and 1801, and by the French together ... Læs mere

    42,83 kr.

  • Culloden

    Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire

    af Trevor Royle ...
    The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French ... Læs mere

    149,27 kr.

  • How the Army Made Britain a Global Power, 1688–1815

    af Jeremy Black ...
    "A majestic study of the British Army's evolution" from the acclaimed historian, commentator, and author of Britain's Naval Route to Greatness (Stanley D.M. Carpenter, Emeritus Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College).Between 1760 and 1815, British troops campaigned from Manila to Montreal, Cape Town to Copenhagen, Washington to Waterloo. The naval dimension of Britain's expansion has been ... Læs mere

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  • Cromwell's War Machine

    The New Model Army, 1645–1660

    af Keith Roberts ...
    A historian of the English Civil Wars shares a fascinating study of the seventeenth century New Model Army, examining its formation, tactics, and significance.The New Model Army was one of the best-known and most effective armies ever raised in England. Oliver Cromwell was both its greatest battlefield commander and the political leader whose position depended on its support. In this meticulously ... Læs mere

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  • Walcheren 1809

    Scandalous Destruction of a British Army

    Napoleonic War scholar Martin R. Howard presents a revelatory history about a little known British military campaign in Walcheren 1809.In July 1809, with the Dutch coast a pistol held at the head of England, the largest British expeditionary force ever assembled, over 40,000 men and around 600 ships, weighed anchor off the Kent coast and sailed for the island of Walcheren in the Scheldt estuary. ... Læs mere

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  • All the King's Armies

    A Military History of the English Civil War 1642-1651

    af Stuart Reid ...
    On 23 September 1642 Prince Rupert's cavalry triumphed outside Worcester in the first major clash on the English Civil War. Almost precisely nine years later, on 3 September 1651, that war was won by Oliver Cromwell's famous Ironsides outside the same city and in part upon the same ground. Stuart Reid provides a detailed yet readable new military history – the first to be published for over twenty ... Læs mere

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  • Wellington in India

    af Jac Weller ...
    The author of Wellington in the Peninsula presents an in-depth study of the British military commander's early career in Colonial India.Before Arthur Wellesley, the future 1st Duke of Wellington, faced Napoleon's armies, he developed his skills as a military commander in the far reaches of the British Empire. In India, Wellesley led his men to victory against the Tipu Sultan at the Battle of ... Læs mere

    104,49 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Fire Over the Rock

    The Great Siege of Gibraltar, 1779–1783

    af James Falkner ...
    " This book does a wonderful job in describing a portion of [the Rock of Gibraltar's] history during the Napoleonic Wars" ( The Past in Review).The great siege of Gibraltar was the longest recorded in the annals of the British army. Between 1779 and 1783, a small British force defended the Rock against the Spanish and the French who were determined take this strategically vital point guarding the ... Læs mere

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  • Irish Brigades Abroad

    From the Wild Geese to the Napoleonic Wars

    Irish Brigades Abroad examines the complete history of the Irish regiments in France, Spain, Austria and beyond. Covering the period from King James II's reign of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1685, until the disbandment of the Irish Brigades in France and Spain, this book looks at the origins, formation, recruitment and the exploits of the Irish regiments, including their ... Læs mere

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