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Queen Victoria's Commanders Michael Barthorp

Queen Victoria's Commanders By Michael Barthorp

Queen Victoria's Commanders by Michael Barthorp


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Michael Barthorp's study of the key commanders that served Victoria.

Queen Victoria's Commanders Summary

Queen Victoria's Commanders by Michael Barthorp

Michael Barthorp's entertaining and authoritative study includes key commanders such as (India 1837-56) Charles Napier, Hugh Gough, Harry Smith; (Crimean War) Lord Raglan, James Scarlett, George Cathcart, John Pennefather; (Indian Mutiny) John Nicholson, Henry Havelock, Hope Grant, Colin Campbell; (India 1860-98) Frederick Roberts; (Africa) Robert Napier, Garnet Wolseley, Herbert Stewart, Evelyn Wood, Redvers Buller, Hector Macdonald and Herbert Kitchener among others.

About Michael Barthorp

Michael Barthorp was educated at Wellington College and was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1946. Demobilised in 1948, he served as a Territorial with The Royal Hampshire Regiment before rejoining the Regular Army in The Northamptonshire Regiment to continue a family tradition, ending his career with the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1968. He went on to write numerous books on the British Army history and costume, including nine titles for the Men-at-Arms series. He lived in Jersey, Channel Islands. DOUGLAS N. ANDERSON volunteered straight from school in 1945 and was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry; he served mainly in the Middle East. He graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1952, and freelanced for many years as a fashion artist and illustrator while retaining his military interests. He now specialises in military, historic and Highland dress. He has illustrated a number of books including several in collaboration with Michael Barthorp, his most recent for Osprey being MAA 268, The British Troops in the Indian Mutiny. A widower with two daughters, Douglas Anderson lives and works in Scotland.

Table of Contents

The British Army in the reign of Queen Victoria; organization and rank structure; the commanders; India, 1837 to the mutiny; the Crimean War; the Indian mutiny; India, from the mutiny to 1900; Africa, 1850-1900.

Additional information

GOR006003524
9781841760544
1841760544
Queen Victoria's Commanders by Michael Barthorp
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2000-09-25
64
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