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By the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 Britain was the undisputed master of the seas, owing...
In the mid-19th century India was the focus of Britain's international prestige and commercial...
The wars against the Barbary pirates not only signaled the determination of the United States to...
Drawing on many contemporary sources and eyewitness accounts, this book examines the lives of...
Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson's decisive victory over the combined fleets of France and Spain on 21...
Victorious in its previous campaigns in Africa against native armies, Britain now confronted an...
This volume covers Napoleon's gradual fall from power, beginning in the spring of 1813, when...
Napoleon's occupation of the Iberian peninsula embroiled him in a protracted and costly war...
Europe's great powers formed two powerful coalitions against France, yet force of numbers,...
Gravelotte-St-Privat was probably the hardest fought of all the battles of the Franco-Prussian...
From the days of its occupation by South African forces under the Mandate System, to its first...
From the earliest planning stages of the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, Hitler was...
Though for centuries fighting was considered primarily a man's job, the world wars of the 20th...
For over a hundred years British and Indian troops were engaged on the North-West Frontier of...
Of all the world's seaborne military organizations, the British Royal Navy is perhaps the most...
In the early 5th century BC, after the fall of the Lydian Empire, the Persian Wars began. It was...
In the Sudan in 1881 an obscure son of a carpenter pronounced himself the 'Mahdi' or 'Guided One...
On the 24 April 1855, Colonel Carmichael Smyth held a parade of the ninety skirmishers of the...
This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the armies that fought...
The Royal Green Jackets are widely acknowledged as innovators who developed much of the thinking...
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