How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815 (Black Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815 (Black Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815 (Black Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

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Between 1760 and 1815, British troops campaigned from Manila to Montreal, Cape Town to Copenhagen, Washington to Waterloo. The naval dimension of Britain's expansion has been superbly covered by a number of excellent studies, but there has not been a single volume that does the same for the army and, in particular, looks at how and why it became a world-operating force, one capable of beating the Marathas as well as the French. This book will both offer a new perspective, one that concentrates on the global role of the army and its central part in imperial expansion and preservation, and as such will be a major book for military history and world history. There will be a focus on what the army brought to power equations and how this made it a world-level force.The multipurpose character of the army emerges as the key point, one seen in particular in the career of Wellington:

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