For Love of Regiment
A History of British Infantry, Volume One, 1660-1914
Published on 13. September 1993
272 pages
978-1-78383-506-5 (ISBN)
Description
The author explains how the tradition of loyalty to the regiment has served the British Army so well over the past 350 years and, in his vivid description of some of the major campaigns in which it has fought, shows what it was like at various times to have been an officer or a soldier in the British Army.
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE 'In Good King Charles's Golden Days' 1660-1688
- CHAPTER TWO Marlborough's Men 1689-1713
- CHAPTER THREE The Numbering of the Regiments 1714-1752
- CHAPTER FOUR 'Over the Hills and Far Away' 1752-1772
- CHAPTER FIVE The Loss of America 1773-1788
- CHAPTER SIX Once More to War 1789-1802
- CHAPTER SEVEN The Spectre of Boney 1803-1809
- CHAPTER EIGHT Wellington's Men 1809-1814
- CHAPTER NINE The Year of Waterloo 1814-1815
- CHAPTER TEN Stagnation? 1816-1853
- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Crimea and Indian Mutiny 1854-1859
- CHAPTER TWELVE Enter Cardwell 1860-1881
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Guardians of the Empire 1882-1898
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Into the 20th Century 1899-1914
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Old Contemptibles 1914
- APPENDIX Regiment of Foot Guards and Line, August 1914
- GENERAL INDEX
- REGIMENTAL INDEX
