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Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperors' Horse Guard
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Michael P Speidel
A history of the Imperial Horse Guards, one of the most feared regiments of the Roman army under the Caesars. Speidel, a professor of history at the University of Hawaii, provides an insight into both the political and military campaigns that were part of the Guards' history from Caesar to Constantine.
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Gray Riders: Stories from the Confederate Cavalry
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Lee Jacobs
What was it like to ride with Stuart, Forrest, or Mosby? Here are stories from the Confederate cavalry, expressing the experiences and emotions of those who served as the "eyes and ears" of the army. Some tales are humorous; others portray comradeship, pride, and patriotism. Unlike the large-scale artillery and infantry battles, most cavalry ...
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Bridle Bits of the American Military, 1776-1945
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Kenneth L McPheeters
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Confederate Wizards of the Saddle
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Bennett H Young
No image symbolizes the valiantly fought lost cause of the Old South so well as that of the Confederate warrior on horseback.
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Citizen Soldiers: 107th Cavalry Regiment, Ohio National Guard
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George N Vourlojianis
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A History of Cavalry from the Earliest Times: With Lessons for the Future
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George T Denison
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
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The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads: And the Civil War's Last Campaign
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Eric J Wittenberg
The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, fought March 10, 1865, was one of most important but least known engagements of William T. Sherman's Carolinas Campaign. Confederate cavalry, led by Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton and Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, launched a savage surprise attack on the sleeping camp of Maj. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, Sherman's cavalry chief. ...
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Chivalry and Command: 500 Years of Horse Guards
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Brian Harwood
Tens of thousands of tourists visit Whitehall each year and gaze at the Horse Guards sentries, but the history behind Horse Guards, and the sentries in front of it are known to virtually no-one. This is the first book to tell the absorbing story of a site which has been used for martial activity continuously since the mid-16th century. From ...
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M2/M3 Bradley at War
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Michael Green, James D Brown
In a full-scale, fully detailed look at the M2/M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle System, Michael Green and James Brown conduct readers through the nuts and bolts, production history, and wartime work of the stalwart Bradley since its production in 1982. Designed to transport infantry, provide fire cover, and suppress enemy armor that Bradley has proved ...
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Horse Soldier 1776-1943: The Last of the Indian Wars the Spanish American War the ...
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Randy Steffen
This is the third volume of a four-volume work. . . In this volume the author addresses the period of the cavalry's decisive conquest of the Indians and the securing of the western frontier, the Spanish-American War and the glory of "Teddy Roosevelt's boys, " and the years when the thunder of the Great War in Europe was echoing ominously across ...
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Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899-1917
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Garna L Christian
In Jim Crow Texas, black Regular Army units returning victoriously from Cuba and the Philippines collided head-on with local segregation and bigotry. As the soldiers' expectations of dignity and respect met with racial restrictions and indignities from civilian communities, a series of violent episodes erupted. This little-known story, never ...
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The Raiders of 1862
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James D Brewer
During 1862, a pivotal year in the war between the American states, three cavalry leaders led cavalry raids that had both immediate and long-term effects. This book examines the tactics that made each raid more or less successful as well as how the different leadership styles impacted the missions.
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The Roman Cavalry
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Pat Southern, Karen R Dixon, R Dixon Karen
The cavalry was a vital part of the army of Rome and it played a significant role in the expansion and success of the Roman Empire. This text describes the origins of the mounted units of the Roman army and trace their development from temporary allied troops to the regular "alae" and cohorts. It draws together evidence from a wide variety of ...
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Lee's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of Northern Virginia
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Edward G Longacre
A companion to his previous work, Lincoln's Cavalrymen, this volume focuses on the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia -- its leadership, the military life of its officers and men as revealed in their diaries and letters, the development of its tactics as the war evolved, and the influence of government policies on its operational abilities. ...
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Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg
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Eric J Wittenberg, J David Petruzzi
June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours. Harness jingles and hoofs pound as Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart leads his three brigades of veteran troopers on a ride that triggers one of the Civil War's most bitter and enduring controversies. Instead of finding glory and victory-two objectives with which he ...
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Mounted Warriors: From Alexander the Great and Cromwell to Stuart, Sheridan, and Custer
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Gene Smith
Acclaimed historian Gene Smith brings the romance and drama of the cavalry to life in this vivid and impeccably researched account of mounted warfare through the centuries. Filled with colorful characters, pageantry, and dramatic confrontations such as the great Civil War cavalry clash between Jeb Stuart and Philip Sheridan, "Mounted Warriors" is ...
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Personal Recollection
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Time-Life Books, James Harvey Kidd
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One Hundred Years with the Second Cavalry
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Joseph Idus Lambert
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Sabres in the Shenandoah: The 21st New York Cavalry, 1863-1866
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John C Bonnell Jr
The 21st New York was in the thick of the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley from January 1864 to the end of the war. The regiment fought against Confederate generals, guerrillas, and partisan rangers such as John Singleton Mosby. It fought in the Battle of New Market, accompanied David Hunter on his raid to Lynchburg, opposed Jubal Early in his ...
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The Lost Battalion: Controversy and Casualties in the Battle of Hue
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Charles A Krohn, F Clifton Berry (Foreword by)
In 1968 in South Vietnam, a US infantry battalion was ordered to charge a fortified North Vietnamese Army force 200 yards away, over an open field without artillery or air support. When the Lost Battalion finally escaped encirclement, after nine hours, fighting against an enemy that outnumbered them three to one, the tragic episode disappeared ...
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Story of Us Cavalry
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Outlet, John K Herr
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The cavalry of World War II
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Janusz Piekalkiewicz, Janusz Piekakiewicz
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Bugles Banners and War Bonnets
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Ernest Lisle Reedstrom
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Memoirs of the late Major General Le Marchant
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Denis Le Marchant
Described by his headmaster as a great dunce, John Gaspard Le Marchant went on to revolutionise British Army Officer training with the founding of Sandhurst. His son set out his memoirs that are the subject of this facsimile edition of the 1841 original.
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Massacre on the Lordsburg Road: A Tragedy of the Apache Wars
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Marc Simmons
In the spring of 1883 Apache raiders massacred Judge H.C. McComas and his wife Juniata and kidnapped their six-year-old son Charley as the family traveled on a desolate road in southwestern New Mexico Territory. At the time, the circumstances leading to this tragic incident were not fully understood. In Massacre on the Lordsburg Road, historian ...
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