Author: Cleaveland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845740412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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An unusual official manual setting out the history and duties of the Royal Regiment of Artillery from its formation down to 1757. The book provides a wealth of information on the orders, ordnance, duties and requirements of those who served in the Regiment from its earliest days. It is difficult to think of another source where such details - down to, for example, the exact payment made to a master gunner on the Earl of Romney s expedition to the West Indies in 1694 (Five shillings a day).

Author: Cleaveland (Colonel.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Frederick Darby Cleaveland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Author: Richard Francis Cleaveland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Author: Arthur S. White
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 178150539X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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This is one of the most valuable books in the armoury of the serious student of British Military history. It is a new and revised edition of Arthur White's much sought-after bibliography of regimental, battalion and other histories of all regiments and Corps that have ever existed in the British Army. This new edition includes an enlarged addendum to that given in the 1988 reprint. It is, quite simply, indispensible.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artillery
Languages : en
Pages : 760

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Author: Philip Jobson
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750980079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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Since its creation in 1716, the Royal Artillery has been a cornerstone of the British Armed Forces, as their motto Ubique, 'Everywhere' implies. In this book Philip Jobson has collated the enormous and complex artillery lexicon which has accumulated since that day, as dynamic as its subject to keep pace with technical and tactical innovation. The development of indirect fire, counter battery, anti-tank and anti-aircraft fire all required a novel vocabulary, as did advances in survey and locating. Changes in communication from shouts, to flags, to line, to radio, to compressed data transmission all left their mark on the language. Epic in scope and detail, even the most expert Gunner would be likely to fail an unseen test based on this work. It will therefore be a pleasure to those who think themselves expert to browse this volume, and will serve as an invaluable reference for historians and researchers to ensure that they use the correct term and understand its true meaning.

Author: Anthony Bruce
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111660214
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: Francis Duncan
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: Major Francis Duncan
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1781491755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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This two-volume history of the Royal Artillery is one of the earliest published on that subject, and covers the period from its formation in 1716 to Waterloo, a hundred years of history. This volume takes the history of the Regiment to Waterloo and the defeat of Napoleon, and in connection with performance of the Artillery in that battle the author devotes an Appendix to a letter from Wellington to Lord Mulgrave, then Master-General of the Ordnance, in which he wrote: "To tell you the truth, I was not very well pleased with the Artillery in the Battle of Waterloo" and when the French cavalry charged "they ran off the field entirely, taking with them limbers, ammunition and everything." Major Duncan angrily refutes, in detail, the accuracy of such a statement, based as it was on false reports, implying the Iron Duke was talking through his cocked hat. This makes a lively conclusion to a most entertaining account of a further thirty-two years in the history of the Gunners. Operations described include the ill-fated expedition against the French in Flanders, led by the Duke of York, but the main focus is on the Napoleonic Wars - the campaign in S America, the Walcheren campaign, a malaria-infested island where battle casualties amounted to a little over 200 while thousands died of sickness, and the Peninsular War culminating in the Battle of Waterloo. Descriptions include detailed order of battle of artillery units involved with strengths and names of all the officers in each unit. But just as impressive is the wealth of information on the continuing development of the Regiment, beginning with the raising of the Royal Horse Artillery in January 1793. We read all about equipment, dress, pay, in fact there is a statement of the Artillery Forces of Great Britain in the year 1810, according to the establishment laid down in the King's Warrant, listing every unit, with numbers in each rank and daily pay of each rank. To finish, the author provides a tabular statement showing date of formation and former designation of every battery now (1879) in the Service. There is a good index. These two volumes, telling the story of the first hundred years of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, are an invaluable source of information and essential reading for any historian, student or enthusiast.