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Battles of the British Army Being a Continuous History of Its Services its Defects and its Victories from the Earliest Times

1901

on the one hand and the confines of the Persian Empire on the other and from the Nile and Ethiopia on the south to the frozen banks of the Baltic on the north. [...] (1703-1709.) The Campaign of 1705 in the Bow Countries—Forcing of the French Lines between Namur and Antwerp—The Campaign of 17o6—Battle of Ramillies—Submission of Brabanl and Surreed* of the chief Cities of Flanders—The Campaign of 17o8—Battle of Oudcnarde—Results of the Battle—Siege of Lisle.and Action at Wynendale—The Campaign of 17o9—Siege of Tournay—Battle of Malplaquct—End of Ste War 53 nl1 [...] (1813.) Retirement of the French Army across the Bidassoa into France—Failure at Tarragona—First Siege of San Sebastian—Sanguinary Repulse of the British—Battles of the Pyrenees between the 25th July and the and August—Second Siege and Capture of San Sebastian—The Actions of San Marcial and Vera—The British cross the Bidassoa—Battle of the Nivelle—Battles of the Nive CHAPTER XVIJ. [...] Battle of the Alma—The Flank March to Balaclava—Siege of men Sebastopol—Battle of Balaclava—Memorable Charge of the Light Cavalry Brigade—Battle of Inkerman—Progress of the Siege—The Attack on the Quarries—Repulse at the Redan on the 18th June—Second Repulse on the 8th September—Evacuation of Sebastopol—Conclusion of the War. 420 CHAPTER XXIIL THE INDIAN MUTINY. [...] The spoliators of Henry VIII.'s time rspected the grave of the immortal hero and it escaped the fury of the fIlhatical Puritans in the days of Cromwell and the cro-bars and sledg/hammers of Blue Dick and his crew who destroyed nearly everything they could reach within the walls of the venerable cathedral.
education
Pages
534
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142390
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Frontmatter
i-16 Charles Low view
Chapter I. The Early French Wars. 1066—1513
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Chapter II. English Continental Expeditions. 1513—1704
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Chapter III. This Duke of Marlborougil’s Campaigns. 1702—1704
53-69 unknown view
Chapter IV. The Duke of Marlborough’s Campaigns. 1705—1709
70-95 unknown view
Chapter V. Campaigns of the Eighteenth Centural. 1704—1783
96-113 unknown view
Chapter VI. The British Army in America. 1755—1783
114-140 unknown view
Chapter VII. The Founding of Our Indian Empire. 1755—1767
141-159 unknown view
Chapter VIII. The Struggle with Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sultan. 1767—1799
160-179 unknown view
Chapter IX. The Mahratta Wars. 1803—1806
180-194 unknown view
Chapter X. The Revolutionary War. 1793—1809
195-213 unknown view
Chapter XI. The Revolutionary War. 1801—1814
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Chapter XII. The Peninsular War. 1808—1809
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Chapter XIII. The Peninsular War 1809—1811
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Chapter XIV. The Peninsular War. 1811—1812
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Chapter XV. The Pbninsiilar War. 1812—1813
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Chapter XVI. The Peninsular War. 1813
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Chapter XVII. The Peninsular War. 1814
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Chapter XVIII. The Waterloo Campaign. 1815
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Chapter XIX. The Nepaul Mahratta and Burmese Wars. 1810—1826
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Chapter XX. The Afghan Scinde and Gwalior Campaigns 1838—1814
384-395 unknown view
Chapter XXI. The Sikh Second Burmese and Persian Wars. 1845—1856
396-419 unknown view
Chapter XXII. The Crimean War. 1854—1856
420-432 unknown view
Chapter XXIII. The Indian Mutiny 1857—1859
433-459 unknown view
Chapter XXIV. Our Colonial and “Little” Wars. 1840—1874
460-477 unknown view
Chapter XXV. The Zulu Boer and Afghan Wars. 1877—1880
478-508 unknown view
Chapter XXVI. The Egyptian Soudan and Burmese Campaigns. 1882—1890
509-528 unknown view

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