Author: Neil C. Smith
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Bethune's Mounted Infantry
Author: Neil C. Smith
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880–1913
Author: Andrew Winrow
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317039947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horseback in the traditional manner of cavalry, they used horses primarily to move swiftly about the battlefield, where they would then dismount and fight on foot, thus anticipating the development of mechanised infantry tactics during the twentieth century. Yet despite this apparent foresight, the mounted infantry concept was abandoned by the British Army in 1913, just at the point when it may have made the transition from a colonial to a continental force as part of the British Expeditionary Force. Exploring the historical background to the Mounted Infantry, this book untangles the debates that raged in the army, Parliament and the press between its advocates and the supporters of the established cavalry. With its origins in the extemporised mounted detachments raised during times of crisis from infantry battalions on overseas imperial garrison duties, Dr Winrow reveals how the Mounted Infantry model, unique among European armies, evolved into a formalised and apparently highly successful organisation of non-cavalry mounted troops. He then analyses why the Mounted Infantry concept fell out of favour just eleven years after its apogee during the South African Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. As such the book will be of interest not only to historians of the nineteenth-century British army, but also those tracing the development of modern military doctrine and tactics, to which the Mounted Infantry provided successful - if short lived - inspiration.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317039947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horseback in the traditional manner of cavalry, they used horses primarily to move swiftly about the battlefield, where they would then dismount and fight on foot, thus anticipating the development of mechanised infantry tactics during the twentieth century. Yet despite this apparent foresight, the mounted infantry concept was abandoned by the British Army in 1913, just at the point when it may have made the transition from a colonial to a continental force as part of the British Expeditionary Force. Exploring the historical background to the Mounted Infantry, this book untangles the debates that raged in the army, Parliament and the press between its advocates and the supporters of the established cavalry. With its origins in the extemporised mounted detachments raised during times of crisis from infantry battalions on overseas imperial garrison duties, Dr Winrow reveals how the Mounted Infantry model, unique among European armies, evolved into a formalised and apparently highly successful organisation of non-cavalry mounted troops. He then analyses why the Mounted Infantry concept fell out of favour just eleven years after its apogee during the South African Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. As such the book will be of interest not only to historians of the nineteenth-century British army, but also those tracing the development of modern military doctrine and tactics, to which the Mounted Infantry provided successful - if short lived - inspiration.
Achievements of Cavalry
Author: Sir Evelyn Wood
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Category : Cavalry
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Cavalry
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Field Service Manual
Author: Great Britain. War Office
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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South Africa
Author: Great Britain. War Office
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Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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South Africa and the Transvaal War
Author: Louis Creswicke
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Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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The Genealogical Magazine
Proclamations Issued in South Africa
Author: Frederick Sleigh Roberts Robert (1st earl.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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