Author: sir Henry Hallam Parr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The further training and employment of mounted infantry
Author: sir Henry Hallam Parr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution
Author: Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1077
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1077
Book Description
The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880–1913
Author: Andrew Winrow
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317039947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317039947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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.
Special Bibliographic Series
Author: US Army Military History Research Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution
Author: Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Alphabetical List of Additions Made to the War Department Library from [June, 1882], to June, 1891
Author: United States. War Department. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Alphabetical List of Additions Made to the War Department Library ...
Author: United States. War Dept. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
University Library Bulletin
Author: Cambridge University Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description