By Sir John William Fortescue
Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent position among British army historians, his enduring popularity and legacy resting often on his life’s paintings “The historical past of the British Army”, issued in 20 volumes, which took him a few 30 years to accomplish. In scope and breadth it's such that no smooth student has tried to hide this sort of huge and various topic in its entirety; yet Sir John did so with aplomb, resulting in a readable and accomplished study.
According to Professor Emeritus of army heritage at King’s collage, Brian Bond, the paintings was once “the manufactured from indefatigable learn in unique files, a choice to provide a transparent, exact, and readable narrative of army operations, and a detailed own wisdom of the battlefields, which enabled him to explain his account with very good maps. most crucial, even if, was once his motivation: specifically, a lifelong affection for the outdated, long-service, pre-Cardwell military, the spirit of the regiments of which it mostly consisted, and the worth of its traditions to the kingdom. a tremendous a part of his job was once to distil and inculcate those soldierly virtues which, in his conservative view, contrasted sharply with the unedifying personality of politicians who habitually meddled in army matters.” ODNB.
This first quantity covers the interval from the conflict of Hastings in 1066 to the tip of the Seven Year’s battle in 1713. It contains the battles at Bannockburn, Crecy, Agincourt, Flodden, the battles of the English Civil struggle, Dunkirk Dunes, Tangiers, and the battles in the course of Marlborough’s campaigns. the amount additionally lines the advance of eu Armies, infantry, cavalry and artillery, and the explicit alterations in Britain through the period.
A needs to learn for any army enthusiast.
Author — Fortescue, J. W. Sir, 1859-1933.
Text taken, entire and whole, from the second one variation released in 1910, London, via Macmillan and Co.
Original web page count number – XXXV and 593 pages.
Illustrations — a variety of.
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