Commanders and Personalities

C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, D. H. Parry and Others
Marengo, Copenhagen, Egypt, Janissary Rebellion, Laswaree & Assaye, Pulo Aor, Austerlitz, Trafalgar, Jena, Maida, Walcheren and Albuera
Forty-four battles of the Napoleonic era in words and pictures Napoleon was one of the most significant figures in world history; a military and administrative genius, statesman and despot, he set ..

Arthur Griffiths, D. H. Parry, Archibald Forbes and Others
San Sebastian, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Bergen op Zoom, the Gurkha War, Lundy’s Lane, Toulouse, Ligny, New Orleans and Waterloo
Forty-four battles of the Napoleonic era in words and pictures Napoleon was one of the most significant figures in world history; a military and administrative genius, statesman and despot, he set ..

D. H. Parry, Arthur Griffiths, Herbert Russell and Others
Badajoz, Canadians in the War of 1812, Ciudad Rodrigo, Retreat from Moscow, Queenston Heights, Salamanca, Leipzig, Fight Between the Chesapeake & Shannon, Chrystler’s Farm, Dresden and Lutzen
Forty-four battles of the Napoleonic era in words and pictures Napoleon was one of the most significant figures in world history; a military and administrative genius, statesman and despot, he set ..

Arthur Griffiths, D. H. Parry, Archibald Forbes and Others
Buenos Ayres, Eylau & Friedland, Baylen, Finland, Vimiera, Aspern-Essling, Corunna, Passage of the Douro, Talavera, Tyrol-Innsbruck and Barrosa
Forty-four battles of the Napoleonic era in words and pictures Napoleon was one of the most significant figures in world history; a military and administrative genius, statesman and despot, he set ..

Mary Combermere, W. W. Knollys & Alexander Innes Shand
The Early Life and Military Career of Stapleton Cotton, Wellington’s Commander of Cavalry by The Right Hon. Mary, Viscountess Combermere and W. W. Knollys & With a Short Biography of Stapleton Cotton by Alexander Innes Shand
Wellington’s intelligent and flamboyant cavalry commander Despite a long career filled with victories, many modern readers think of the Duke of Wellington in terms of his greatest military success,..

Frederick Courteney Selous & D. Tyrie Laing
Tribal Conflict in East Africa 1895-1896—Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia by Frederick Courteney Selous & The Matabele Rebellion, 1896 by D. Tyrie Laing
The struggles for Africa There can be few more interesting and evocative periods of British imperial history than the struggles for south-eastern Africa. The empire had found itself colliding with ..

R. S. S. Baden-Powell
The Downfall of Prempeh, a Diary of Life With the Native Levy in Ashanti, 1895-6 & The Matabele Campaign 1896
The early campaigns of a famous British soldier and Chief Scout Robert Baden-Powell is internationally famous as the founder of the worldwide Boy Scout movement, but he first came to the attention ..

William Robertson
The Autobiography of the First British Private Soldier to Rise to the Highest Rank
Scarlet coat to red-tabs It is a common aspect of uncommon men that their lives are so exceptional that they cannot be adequately described in a few words. So much the better then that the author o..

Stephen Lakeman
Experiences With ‘the Waterkloof Rangers’ During the Xhosa Wars in Cape Colony
A complex and controversial Victorian’s account of war It is fatal to project the attitudes of the modern (or any) age onto those of another time or to view historical events from any perspectives ..

George C. Eggleston
Red Sticks, White Sticks and the war in Alabama The Creek Indian War, also known as the Red Stick War, took place between 1813-1814 and has been considered by many historians as part of the War of ..

Peter S. Lumsden
The Life and Campaigns of the Founder of the Corps of Guides—An Elite Regiment of the Indian Army
The life of the founder of the famous frontier force British India gave rise to a number of notable regiments and among them were few which could compare with the individualism, élan, fame and prow..

George A. Custer
Custer’s Memoir of His Campaigns Against the Indian Tribes of the Western Plains
The memoirs of the most famous American cavalryman Those who pursue fame are occasionally fated to acquire it for reasons other than those of their ambitions. So it is with George Armstrong Custer ..

Elizabeth B. Custer
The Experiences of General Custer’s Wife With the U. S. 7th Cavalry
The wife of a famous soldier on campaign on the Western Plains of America Despite a successful career during the Civil War and a meteoritic elevation in rank as the 'Boy General,’ it is the later c..

Florentia Sale
An Indomitable Victorian Lady’s Account of the Retreat from Kabul During the First Afghan War
The hard road back to India There are few books that can truly be said to be unique, but this is one. Afghanistan has been a battleground since man has occupied its hostile landscape and others hav..

Demetrius Charles Boulger
The Career of Gordon of Khartoum
A great British soldier This is the biography of one of the most famous soldiers of the Victorian age—Major-General Charles Gordon. Certainly he is now known as Gordon of Khartoum, but highly regar..