About this title: In 1815 the British army stood at a peak in its history: under Wellington it had taken part in the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Yet in 1854, when next engaged in war against a European enemy, its performance was at best mediocre and at worst disastrous. For the press at the time, as for historians since, the Crimean War revealed an incompetent, antiquated army, rusty after forty years of complacent neglect. From Waterloo to Balaclava shows such oversimplification to be false. In addition to absorbing the lessons of the Napoleonic Wars, the army had to contend with recurrent campaigns ...
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Edition: 1st ed
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780521304399ISBN:0521304393
Description: New in very good dust jacket. Tactics, Technology and the British Army 1815-1854. B/w illustrations. Wrapper spine lightly browned. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1985.
Date Published: 1985
Description: Dust Jacket Included. 23.5cm, first edition, xi, 188p., 27 illustrations, bibliography, index, blue cloth with gilt spine titles, a fine copy in very good to fine jacket (s7) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780521304399ISBN:0521304393
Description: Ex-Library Published by Cambridge University Press in 1985. Hardcover. Number of pages: 196. Ex. Library copy-usual stamps and marks. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. #8289747 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
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