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Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: Byron Farwell
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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From 1837 to 1901, in Asia, China, Canada, Africa, and elsewhere, military expedition were constantly being undertaken to protect resident Britons or British in
Mr. Kipling's Army
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Byron Farwell
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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This is an upstairs-downstairs view of the Victorian-Edwardian army, one of the world's most peculiar fighting forces. The battles it fought are household words
Eminent Victorian Soldiers
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Byron Farwell
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Farwell provides profiles of eight Victorian military officers--men who helped create the British Empire and whose lives reflect the age. Photos.
Victoria's Wars
Language: en
Pages: 465
Authors: Saul David
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-04 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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In the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the British Empire almost quintupled in size. It was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had
Queen Victoria's Commanders
Language: en
Pages: 68
Authors: Michael Barthorp
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-05-25 - Publisher: Osprey Publishing

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Michael Barthorp's entertaining and authoritative study includes key commanders such as (India 1837-56) Charles Napier, Hugh Gough, Harry Smith; (Crimean War) L