Author: Stephen M. Miller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136322833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This study analyzes the readiness of the British military establishment for war in 1899 and its performance in the South African War (1899-1902). It focuses on the career of Field Marshal Paul Sanford, 3rd Baron Methuen, whose traditional military training, used so effectively in Queen Victoria's small wars, was put to the test by the modern challenges of the South African War. A subsidiary aim of this work is to correct and refine the historical consensus that Methuen's campaing in the South African War was plagued by practical errors and poor judgement. The South African War was a crucial transitional episode in the history of the British army. Unlike Great Britain's other expeditions, it required the concentrated resources of the entire empire. It was a modern war in the sense that it employed the technology, the weaponry, the communications, and the transportation of the second industrial revolution.
Lord Methuen and the British Army
Author: Stephen M. Miller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136322833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This study analyzes the readiness of the British military establishment for war in 1899 and its performance in the South African War (1899-1902). It focuses on the career of Field Marshal Paul Sanford, 3rd Baron Methuen, whose traditional military training, used so effectively in Queen Victoria's small wars, was put to the test by the modern challenges of the South African War. A subsidiary aim of this work is to correct and refine the historical consensus that Methuen's campaing in the South African War was plagued by practical errors and poor judgement. The South African War was a crucial transitional episode in the history of the British army. Unlike Great Britain's other expeditions, it required the concentrated resources of the entire empire. It was a modern war in the sense that it employed the technology, the weaponry, the communications, and the transportation of the second industrial revolution.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136322833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This study analyzes the readiness of the British military establishment for war in 1899 and its performance in the South African War (1899-1902). It focuses on the career of Field Marshal Paul Sanford, 3rd Baron Methuen, whose traditional military training, used so effectively in Queen Victoria's small wars, was put to the test by the modern challenges of the South African War. A subsidiary aim of this work is to correct and refine the historical consensus that Methuen's campaing in the South African War was plagued by practical errors and poor judgement. The South African War was a crucial transitional episode in the history of the British army. Unlike Great Britain's other expeditions, it required the concentrated resources of the entire empire. It was a modern war in the sense that it employed the technology, the weaponry, the communications, and the transportation of the second industrial revolution.
The Boer War
Author: John Gooch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135271747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This collections of essays by leading British and South African scholars, looking at the Boer War, focuses on three aspects: how the British Military functioned; the role of the Boers, Afrikaners and Zulus; and the media presentation of the war to the public.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135271747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This collections of essays by leading British and South African scholars, looking at the Boer War, focuses on three aspects: how the British Military functioned; the role of the Boers, Afrikaners and Zulus; and the media presentation of the war to the public.
Volunteers on the Veld
Author: Stephen M. Miller
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806138640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book spotlights Britain's “citizen army” to show who these volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trained—and how they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves committed not to the supposed glories of conventional battle but instead to a prolonged guerrilla war.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806138640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book spotlights Britain's “citizen army” to show who these volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trained—and how they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves committed not to the supposed glories of conventional battle but instead to a prolonged guerrilla war.
Northwestern Christian Advocate
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Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Languages : en
Pages : 860
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The Annual Register
Author: Edmund Burke
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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The Annual Register of World Events
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Annual Register
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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The Review of Reviews
Author: William Thomas Stead
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Military history journal
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Modern history
Author: Israel Smith Clare
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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