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Queen Victoria S Enemies 4
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Author : Ian Knight
language : en
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date : 1990-07-26
Queen Victoria S Enemies 4 written by Ian Knight and has been published by Osprey Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-07-26 with History categories.
Due to the spread of British strategic and commercial interests during the Victorian period, the British military was called upon to serve in theatres across the world. Some of the fighting was severe; it took nearly 30 years of intermittent warfare to suppress Maori opposition to settler expansion in New Zealand. In other areas it amounted to little more than skirmishing, as in Brooke's campaign against the pirates of Borneo and the Jamaican revolt of 1865. This book details these various 'small wars' and examines the qualities of the disparate peoples who opposed the spread of the British Empire.
Queen Victoria S Enemies 2
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Author : Ian Knight
language : en
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date : 1989-11-23
Queen Victoria S Enemies 2 written by Ian Knight and has been published by Osprey Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-11-23 with History categories.
The British Army in Queen Victoria's reign fought a series of regional campaigns against various African groups with complex military traditions well-suited to their environment. In many instances, the outcome of the ensuing fighting was by no means one-sided. This book focuses on the large-scale wars in northern Africa in which British regular troops were engaged throughout the 19th century, including those in Abyssinia, Asante, Egypt and the Sudan. Containing a number of rare contemporary photographs and eight colour plates, the book charts the history of these campaigns and describes the African groups against which they were waged.
Osprey Men At Arms
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Author : Martin Windrow
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-01-20
Osprey Men At Arms written by Martin Windrow and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-20 with History categories.
Osprey Men-at-Arms: A Celebration is a very special volume detailing some of the wonderful artwork that has graced Osprey's renowned Men-at-Arms series over the last forty years. Beautifully presented in luxurious cloth, embossed and foil blocked, with head and tails bands and a ribbon bookmark, the collection contains the most treasured illustrations from the vast archives of this respected series and is a classic, collectable item for all military history enthusiasts.
Queen Victoria S Enemies 1
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Author : Ian Knight
language : en
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date : 1989-07-27
Queen Victoria S Enemies 1 written by Ian Knight and has been published by Osprey Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-07-27 with History categories.
When Queen Victoria acceded to the British throne in 1837, British troops had recently concluded a war in southern Africa against the Xhosa people, and the seeds were already sown for a clash with the Boers. When she died in January 1901 Britain was fighting the Boers in one of the longest and costliest of the imperial colonial wars. This book details the history of Britain's numerous conflicts with the people of southern Africa, namely the Xhosa, Basotho, Tswana and Boers. Numerous illustrations, including rare photographs and colour plates, detail the dress, weaponry and organization of Victoria's enemies in the late 19th century.
The Men Who Would Be Kings
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Author : Daniel Mersey
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-09-22
The Men Who Would Be Kings written by Daniel Mersey and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-22 with Games & Activities categories.
The Men Who Would Be Kings is a set of rules designed for fighting historical or Hollywood colonial battles in the mid to late 19th Century, from the Indian Mutiny to the Boxer Rebellion. Large scale colonial clashes tended to be one-sided affairs, but there are countless reports of brief, frantic skirmishes in every colonial war, where either side could be victorious, and these are the battles that The Men Who Would Be Kings seeks to recreate. Although focusing on the British colonial wars against the Zulus, Maoris and others, these rules will also permit players to explore the empires of France, Germany, and other nations, as well as allowing for battles between rival native factions. Gameplay is very simple, and is driven by the quality of the officers leading your units, in the true spirit of Victorian derring-do and adventure, where larger than life characters such as the (real) Fred Burnaby and the (fictional) Harry Flashman led their troops to glory and medals or a horrible end at the point of a spear tip.
Infantry
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Infantry written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Infantry categories.
Life In Civil War America
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Author : Michael J. Varhola
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-01-31
Life In Civil War America written by Michael J. Varhola and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-31 with History categories.
The Civil War is a fascinating time period in American history. Life in Civil War America, 2nd Edition provides readers with fast facts and statistics about the 1860s from military life to civilian life in both the North and South. Topics covered include: • social and economic realities of daily life • common slang and idioms • diets of the era, including recipes, food preparation and the impact of shortages and inflation on rations • civilian dress, military dress, and technology of the time. The book focuses on the era, not just the events of the war. Period illustrations and photos further illuminate the era.
Victoria S Secret Service Russian Roulette 1
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Author : CW Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Bluewater Productions
Release Date : 2017-01-25
Victoria S Secret Service Russian Roulette 1 written by CW Cooke and has been published by Bluewater Productions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-25 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Come meet the gang. New faces have joined the Service and you can get the info drop here! Back in the 19th Century, a secret group of ladies in waiting were created to protect Queen Victoria at all costs. These highly trained operatives became Victoria's Secret Service. Also, in this, the first issue of a new 4 issue mini-series from the hit VSS, one of their own is kidnapped behind enemy lines and the girls have to go undercover to save her!
Some Did It For Civilisation Some Did It For Their Country
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Author : Jane E. Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Release Date : 2002
Some Did It For Civilisation Some Did It For Their Country written by Jane E. Elliott and has been published by Chinese University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art categories.
This book marks a total departure from previous studies of the Boxer War. It evaluates the way the war was perceived and portrayed at the time by the mass media. As such the book offers insights to a wider audience than that of sinologists or Chinese historians. The important distinction made by the author is between image makers and eyewitnesses. Whole categories of powerful image makers, both Chinese and foreign, never saw anything of the Boxer War but were responsible for disseminating images of that war to millions of people in China and throughout the world.
Filipino Martial Art Anthology
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Author : Michael DeMarco, MA., et al.
language : en
Publisher: Via Media Publishing
Release Date : 2017-02-13
Filipino Martial Art Anthology written by Michael DeMarco, MA., et al. and has been published by Via Media Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-13 with Sports & Recreation categories.
There has been a lack of reliable academic studies regarding Filipino martial arts (FMA) that have uniquely developed in the Philippine archipelago. This anthology assembles pioneering scholarly materials valuable for any interested in the Filipino combatives, as well as chapters specifically on the practice. Mark Wiley stands out as a leading scholar/practitioner of the Filipino arts. This book contains three chapters by him. In the first, he conducted linguistic and historical research to present the developmental background of the ancient Filipino kali and European fencing systems, thus illuminating the evolution of classical eskrima. In chapter two, Wiley attempts to classify Filipino martial arts and explore the ethos of Filipino martial culture by deriving information directly from the contemporary grandmasters who have maintained an oral transmission of information concerning the evolution and development of their respective martial systems. Part of Wiley’s research also led him to seek out special repositories of artifacts. Museums collections rarely include much on Southeast Asian weapons. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has nearly 1,000 martial artifacts in storerooms from the Philippines, including swords, knives, spears, shields, helmets, and armor discussed in Wiley’s third chapter. On a practical side, Steven Dowd presents the art of Carlita Lañada who studied martial arts as passed down within his own family in the Philippines. He calls his rendition Kuntaw Lima-Lima, an art whose techniques are reminiscent of Okinawan karate styles, with hints of Chinese gongfu. Presented are the underlying principles, and a sayawan (form) with applications. Majia Soderholm’s chapter is about Visayan Corto Kadena Eskrima and some of its concepts and training methods with regard to free-sparring with swords. It is a Filipino martial system encompassing empty-hand and non-bladed and bladed weapons. Peter Hobart presents a wonderful tribute to Remy Presas, the founder of Modern Arnis. This retrospective is comprised of the stories and memories of many of those who knew him. Topics include Presas’ theory and practice of arnis, such as importance of flow, and memories of his last seminar. The chapter by Ruel Macaraeg dives into the topic of piracy in the Philippines. His study reconstructs the pirates’ martial practices through comparative historical analysis of their weapons, costume, and organization in order to draw conclusions about their relationship to martial cultures in the Philippines and across the region. In the final chapter, Ken Smith discusses a few of his favorite techniques from Modern Arnis. His insights—as well as the information found in the previous chapters—contribute to the academic understanding of Filipino martial traditions as well as the actual practice of kali, escrima, and arnis. We hope you’ll enjoy the reading.