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On sea & Land: Small Wars, Minor Actions and Naval Brigades-A Military History of the Royal Navy Volume 2 1856-1881
William Laird Clowes (Author)
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Leonaur Ltd
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On sea & Land: Small Wars, Minor Actions and Naval Brigades-A Military History of the Royal Navy Volume 2 1856-1881 - William Laird Clowes
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Synopsis "On sea & Land: Small Wars, Minor Actions and Naval Brigades-A Military History of the Royal Navy Volume 2 1856-1881"
ISBN: 9781782827634 Géneros: Sinópsis: The second volume of a three volume history of the Royal Navy at war in the 19th centuryFor a century from the close of the Napoleonic Wars to the Battle of Jutland during the First World War the Royal Navy fought very few major battles Indeed as the 19th century progressed and the British Empire inexorably expanded its global holdings and influence the role of the British navy became defined by three principal activities The firstwhich is not the subject of these booksconcerned exploration and discovery the second focussed on international maritime policing particularly in the eradication of piracy and the slave trade and the third concerned the Royal Navys engagement in a plethora of small expeditions campaigns and wars which either involved short decisive actions afloat or employed naval brigades in shore actions with or without naval guns In this period there were of course some larger conflicts and these are included in these three volumes as the chronology unfolds The Royal Navys military activities are covered in these volumesedited from a multivolume history of the Royal Navyconcisely but thoroughly making them essential resources for all those with an interest in the subject All volumes include maps and illustrations original to these Leonaur editionsVolume two comprehensively covers the period 1856 to 1881 when the Royal Navy was in action during the Second Opium War the Indian Mutiny the Maori Wars of the 1860s the Abyssinian Expedition the conflict against Madagascar and the Zanzibar Pirates the Zulu War the First Boer War among others together with many minor expeditions and actionsLeonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket
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