Bücher von J. W. Fortescue

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LIST OF MAPS AND PLANSTHE PENINSULAR WAR1. Castalla. 2. Spain 1813. Eastern Sphere. 3. Tarragona. 4. Spain 1813. Northern Sphere I 5. Spain 1813. Northern Sphere II. 6. Vitoria. 7. San Sebastian. 8. The Quadrilateral of Pamplona. 9. Sorauren. 10. Operations on the Bidassoa and Nivelle. 11. Operations on the Nive and Lower Adour. 12. St. Pierre. 13. Orthez. 14. Operations between Bayonne and Toulouse. Western Section. Insets-(1) Tarbes, (2) Bayonne. 15. Operations between Bayonne and Toulouse. Eastern Section. Inset-South Western FRance. 16. Toulouse. 16A General Map of Spain and Portugal (see under 16 in Index).THE ITALIAN SPHERE17. Operations in Italy, 1814. Inset-Italy, 1814.THE AMERICAN SPHERE18. The Lake Frontier of Canada and the United States. 19. Insets-(1) The Niagara Peninsula (2) Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence, (3) Sackett's Harbour, (4) Lundy's Lane, (5) Plattsburg.HISTORY OF THE ARMY20. Operations agaist Baltimore and Washington. 21. New Orleans and the Mississippi.THE LOW COUNTRIES22. Campaign in Holland, 1814. Inset-The Netherlands. 23.Antwerp. 24. Bergen-op-Zoom. 25. Northern, Eastern, and Southern Netherlands. Inset-Advance of the Allies on Paris, 1815. 26. The Waterloo Campaign. 27. Quatre-Bras: 3 p.m. June 16, 1815. 28. Quatre-Bras: 9 pm June 16 1815. 29. Waterloo: 11.15 a.m. June 18, 1815. 30. Waterloo: 7.45 pm June 18, 1815.

BATTLE PLANS AND SMALLER MAPS1. Barrosa, March 5, 1811. Inset-small map for campaign of Barrosa, February-March 1811. 2. Sabugal, April 3, 1811. 3. Fuentes de Onoro: first and second days, May 3-4 1811. 4. Fuentes de Onoro: third day, May 5, 1811. 5. Albuera. May 16 1811: first position. 6. Albuera, May 16, 1811: the final attack. 7. The Campaign on the Agueda, August-September 1811. 8. Arroyo Molinos, October 18, 1811. 9. Tarifa, December 22, 1811-January 4, 1812. 10. Ciudad Rodrigo, January 9-19, 1812. Inset-Plan and Section of the Great Breach. 1. Badajoz, March 17-April 6, 1812. Inset-Four sections of the Fortifications; enlarged Plan of the East Front. 12.The Forts of Salamanca June 17-27, 1812. 13. Operations round Salamanca, July 1812. 14. Salamanca, July 22, 1812: the beginning of Marmont's manoeuvre. 15. Salamanca, July 22, 1812: Wellington's attack. 16. Burgos, September 19-October 21, 1812. 17. Operations round Salamanca, November 1812. 18. The Lake Frontier of Canada and the United States. Inset-the Frontier on the Niagara River.LARGER MAPS19 General Map of Spain and Portugal, 1807-1814. 20. Massena's Retreat, January-April 1811 HISTORY OF THE ARMY21. The Portuguese Frontier, for operations of Wellington and Beresford, April-August 1811. Inset-Plan: Cavalry affair at Campo Mayor, March 25. Map: Position on the Caia, June-July 1811. 22. Spain: Operations, January-November 1812 (Northern Sphere). 23. Spain: Operations, January-November 1812 (Southern Sphere). Inset-Plan and Sections for the attack on the French posts covering the bridge at Almaraz, May 1812.

MAPS AND PLANSCAMPAIGN OF THE NETHERLANDS 1793-17951. Positoin of Famars. 2. Dunkirk. 3. Position of the opposing armies April 1794. 4. Battle of Turcoing. 5. Avesnes-le-Sec, Villers en Cauchies, and Beaumont. 6. Willems.CAMPAIGNS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN 1793-17957.Toulon. 8. Corisica. 9. Bastia. 10. Calvi.CAMPAIGNS OF THE WEST INDIES, *1793-1798Leeward Sphere11.Haiti, with inset of St. Domingo. 12. Jamaica. Windward Sphere13. Martinique14. Guadeloupe.*For general map of the West Indies see Volume IIIHISTORY OF THE ARMY15. St Lucia. 16. Castries. 17. St Vincent. 18. Grenada. 19. Dominica.CAMPAIGN OF NORTH HOLLAND 179920. General Map of North Holland. 21. North Holland: Helder to Petten. 22. North Holland: Pette to Alkmaar. 23. Cape of Good Hope, with inset of Capetown and Simons-town.GENERAL MAPS24. The Netherland, North-East France, and the Lower Rhine. 25. France, and the Western Mediterranean, with five insets-(1)Malta (2)Valetta (3)Minorca(4)Connaught, 1798, (5)Partitions of Poland. 26. Egypt and The Eastern Mediterranean, with three insets(1)Peninsula of Alexandria, from Aboukir Bay to Alexandria (2) The Battle of 21st March 1801 (3) The Valley of the Nile. 27. Southern India, with two insets (1)Seringapatam (2)Ceylon.

According to the dedication The Regiment was raised in 1759 in honour of General Wolfe who, in that same year, had died in the moment of victory over the French of wounds received at Quebec on the Plains of Abraham. This history takes the story of the 17th Lancers from 1759 to 1894. Originally designated 18th Light Dragoons the number was changed to 17th in 1763, to 3rd three years later and back to 17th three years after that. Finally, in 1822 the designation 'Light Dragoons' was changed to 'Lancers.'For the first fifteen or so years of its existence the Regiment served at home, six years of that time in Ireland from where, in 1775, they embarked for Boston, the first cavalry regiment selected for service in America and where it first saw action in the War of Independence. Eight years later, 1783, the Regiment returned to Ireland. There followed a short spell (two years) in the West Indies and in 1806/7 the Regiment took part in the ill-fated expedition to S America.They had hardly got back from S America (January 1808) when they were sent off to India (February 1808) where they served for the next fifteen years during which time they saw action in the Pindari War which lasted some two years. During its time in India the 17th, which arrived in Calcutta in 1808 790 strong, lost 26 officers and 796 men from disease and climatic conditions alone while it had received 929 officers and men in the same period. The next major campaign was the Crimea in which the Regiment took part in the famous charge of the Light Brigade; three VCs were awarded for gallantry during the campaign. The Regiment arrived back in Ireland in May 1856 and in November the following year it sailed for India among the reinforcements sent out in response to the crisis caused by the Indian Mutiny; another VC was won. Apart from the descriptions of the Regiment in action there is a good deal of domestic interest such as rates of pay, clothing scales, ration scales and two excellent appendices to close the record: one is a complete list of officers shown on a year by year basis from 1759 to 1894, the other is the itinerary of the Regiment from 1759.

LIST OF MAPSTHE CRIMEAN WAR1. The Crimean War 1854-1855. General Map. 2. The Crimea. 3. Alma, September 20 1854. 4. Balaklava, Octoer 25, 1854. 5. Inkerman, November 5 1854. 6. Sevastopol (b) and the surrounding country. 7. Sevastopol (b).THE INDIAN MUTINY8. India, 1857. (Inset, The Pursuit of Tantia Topi). 9. Delhi, 1857. 10. Lucknow, 1857-1858.THE CAMPAIGN IN CHINA11. The Operations against the Taku Forts, August 1860.THE AMBELA CAMPAIGN12. The Ambela Campaign, 1863-1864 (Inset, The Ambela Pass.)THE ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN13. The Abyssinian Expedition, 1867-1868THE WARS IN NEW ZEALAND14.New Zealand, the North Island (Inset, North and South Islands)

LIST OF MAPSTHE FIRST AFGHAN WAR1. The Khyber Pass and the Bolan Pass. 2. From the Helmand, south-eastward to the Indus. 3. Ghazni. 4. Kabul. 5. The Passes between Kabul and JalalabadTHE SIND WAR6. Hyderabad, Miani.THE CHINESE WAR7. China (Tinghai, Chinhai, Chapu, Chinkiang-Fu). 8. Canton. 9. The Gwalior Campaign (Maharajpur).THE FIRST AND SECOND SIKH WARS10. The Punjab 11. Ferozeshah, Mudki, Aliwal, Sobraon. 12. Chilianwala, Gujrat.THE BURMESE WAR13. Burma (Lower irrawaddy Valley, Rangoon, Operations against Myat-Toon).THE KAFFIR WAR14. South Africa, Eastern Frontier (Cape Colony, Natal)In the Text1.Coorg 2. Kalat 3. Jalalabad 4. New Zealand

Military History by J. W. Fortescue was first published in 1914 as part of the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series. Formed from a series of four lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, the volume focuses mainly on the development of the British army and its campaigns.