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"The great host came steadily on, spreading out spreading out - spreading out till they seemed like a giant pair of nut-crackers opening round the little ...
In the early 1880s Muhammad Ahmed, the self-styled Mahdi, unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. The Egyptian military ...
A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe
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In three global conflicts and countless colonial campaigns, tens of thousands of black West Indian soldiers fought and died for Britain, first as slaves and ...
The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And ...
Britain's war against the Zulu people of southern Africa in the late nineteenth century is one of the most famous clashes in the history ...
The heroic and inspiring story of the fortunes of the Black Watch, whose soldiers have distinguished themselves in theatres of war across the world.
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The invasion in 1837 of the Zulu kingdom by Boers migrating from the British Cape Colony, and the massacres, battles and civil war that ensued ...
Revered naval theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, thought the Battle of Quiberon Bay (20 Nov 1759) was as significant as Nelson's victory in 1805, calling ...
During the first half of the twentieth century, the mountainous North West Frontier represented one of the British Empire's most strategically important borders. For ...
In the early 1880s, Britain intervened in independent Egypt and seized control of the Suez Canal. British forces were soon deployed to Egypt's southern ...
In The African Wars Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of ...
Dust of Glory sets out the multiple causes of the First Anglo-Afghan War; the initial British aims for honour and glory and its end in ...
Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa in the nineteenth century. Only the Sudanese and Zulu ...
The last of the nine Frontier Wars fought between 1799-1877 was in many ways a 'prequel' to the more famous Zulu War of 1879, featuring ...