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The Jacobite Campaigns
The military aspects of the Jacobite campaigns in eighteenth-century Britain are considered in this study. Taken from the viewpoint of those loyal to the Hanoverian Crown, the …
Warfare and Tracking in Africa, 1952–1990
During the decolonization wars in East and Southern Africa, tracking became increasingly valuable as a military tactic. Drawing on archival research and interviews, Stapleton …
The 1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion
The 1641 Depositions are among the most important documents relating to early modern Irish history. This essay collection is part of a major project run by Trinity College, Dublin, …
Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648
Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander from the British Isles to serve in the Thirty Years’ War. Though Leslie’s life provides the thread that runs …
War, Strategy and the Modern State, 1792–1914
This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the complex relationship between …
Militant Protestantism and British Identity, 1603–1642
Focusing on the impact of Continental religious warfare on the society, politics and culture of English, Scottish and Irish Protestantism, this study is concerned with the way in …
Arming the Royal Navy, 1793–1815
The Office of Ordnance has been ill-served by previous accounts of its role in arming the Royal Navy during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Cole offers an in-depth …
Worship, Civil War and Community, 1638–1660
This is the first study of the interaction between warfare and national religious practice during the British Civil Wars. Using hundreds of neglected local documents, this work …
Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire, 1837-1902
The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in …
Orde Wingate and the British Army, 1922-1944
Major General Orde Wingate (1903–1944) was the most controversial British military commander of the Second World War, and perhaps of the last hundred years. Anglim's biography …
Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia
Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 300 BC to the modern day.
Military Economics, Culture and Logistics in the Burma Campaign, 1942-1945
Following the fall of Burma to the Japanese in May 1942, reopening and expanding the link from India to China through Burma became the allied force's principal war aim in …