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The Second China War 1856 1860 Edited By D Bonner Smith And E W R Lumby With Maps
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Author : David Bonner SMITH (and LUMBY (Esmond Walter Rawson))
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
The Second China War 1856 1860 Edited By D Bonner Smith And E W R Lumby With Maps written by David Bonner SMITH (and LUMBY (Esmond Walter Rawson)) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with categories.
The Second China War 1856 1860 Edited By D Bonner Smith And E W R Lumby
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The Second China War 1856 1860 Ed By D Bonner Smith And E W R Lumby
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The Second China War 1856 1860
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Author : D. Bonner-Smith
language : en
Publisher: [London] : Printed for the Navy Records Society
Release Date : 1954
The Second China War 1856 1860 written by D. Bonner-Smith and has been published by [London] : Printed for the Navy Records Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with China categories.
The Second China War 1856 60
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Author : E. W. R. Lumby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
The Second China War 1856 60 written by E. W. R. Lumby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with categories.
The Second China War 1858 1860
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Author : D. Bonner-Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
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The Mediterranean Fleet 1919 1929
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Author : Paul Halpern
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Mediterranean Fleet 1919 1929 written by Paul Halpern and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with History categories.
Following the end of the First World War the Mediterranean Fleet found itself heavily involved in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and to a lesser extent, the Adriatic. Naval commanders were faced with complex problems in a situation of neither war nor peace. The collapse of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg empires created a vacuum of power in which different factions struggled for control or influence. In the Black Sea this involved the Royal Navy in intervention in 1919 and 1920 on the side of those Russians fighting the Bolsheviks. By 1920 the Allies were also faced with the challenge of the Turkish nationalists, culminating in the Chanak crisis of 1922. The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne enabled the Mediterranean Fleet finally to return to a peacetime routine, although there was renewed threat of war over Mosul in 1925-1926. These events are the subject of the majority of the documents contained in this volume. Those that comprise the final section of the book show the Mediterranean Fleet back to preparation for a major war, applying the lessons of World War One and studying how to make use of new weapons, aircraft carriers and aircraft.
The Opium Wars
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Author : W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2004-02-01
The Opium Wars written by W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D. and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-01 with History categories.
A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium Wars In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts. Britain was also a nation addicted—to tea, grown in China, and paid for with profits made from the opium trade. When China tried to ban the use of the drug and bar its Western smugglers from it gates, England decided to fight to keep open China's ports for its importation. England, the superpower of its time, managed to do so in two wars, resulting in a drug-induced devastation of the Chinese people that would last 150 years. In this page-turning, dramatic and colorful history, The Opium Wars responds to past, biased Western accounts by representing the neglected Chinese version of the story and showing how the wars stand as one of the monumental clashes between the cultures of East and West. "A fine popular account."—Publishers Weekly "Their account of the causes, military campaigns and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing, frequently macabre and deeply unsettling."—Booklist
A Guide To The Sources Of British Military History
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Author : Robin HIgham
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-05
A Guide To The Sources Of British Military History written by Robin HIgham and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with History categories.
Designed to fill an overlooked gap, this book, originally published in 1972, provides a single unified introduction to bibliographical sources of British military history. Moreover it includes guidance in a number of fields in which no similar source is available at all, giving information on how to obtain acess to special collections and private archives, and links military history, especially during peacetime, with the development of science and technology.
The Durham Papers
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Author : Hilary L. Rubinstein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-13
The Durham Papers written by Hilary L. Rubinstein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-13 with History categories.
Admiral Sir Philip Durham (1763–1845) was one of the most distinguished and colourful officers of the late Georgian Navy. His lucky and sometimes controversial career included surviving the sinking of HMS Royal George in 1782, making the first conquest of the tricolour flag in 1793 and the last in 1815, and having two enemy ships surrender to him at Trafalgar. A Scot distantly related to Lord Barham, Durham entered the Navy in 1777, serving initially on the American and West Indies stations. He was Kempenfelt's signal officer on HMS Victory during the second battle of Ushant in 1781 and on the Royal George. Making his reputation initially as the daring young master and commander of HMS Spitfire early in the French Revolutionary War, he became a crack frigate captain with a fortune in prize money, and commanded HMS Defiance at Trafalgar, where he was wounded. He ended his war service as Commander-in-Chief, Leeward Islands. En voyage he artfully captured two brand-new French frigates which were subsequently taken into the service of Britain, and during his tenure he won the heartfelt gratitude of local merchants by ridding the surrounding seas of American privateers preying on British trading vessels. True to form, he clashed with the judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court on Antigua and with the general with whom he led a combined naval and military assault on Martinique and Guadeloupe following Napoleon's escape from Elba. He later served as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth having resigned his parliamentary seat to do so. Married first to the sister of the Earl of Elgin, of 'Marbles' fame, and secondly to a cousin of 'sea wolf' Lord Cochrane, he was well-known to George III, who as a result of Durham's amusing yet improbable anecdotes, dubbed any tall tale he heard 'a Durham'. This collection of his papers consists mainly of letters and despatches relating to his service in the Channel Fleet, the Mediterranean, and the Leeward Islands. Correspondence with his parents during 1789–1790 reflects his anxieties relating to employment and prospects for promotion when he was a young lieutenant with an illegitimate child to support. The collection, featuring items from and to him, comprises a fascinating and informative set of documents.