Uses literary, sculptural, pictorial, and archaeological evidence to explore the actual clothing worn by Imperial soldiers, including cloaks, tunics, boots, and hats.
Of all the world's seaborne military organizations, the British Royal Navy is perhaps the most prestigious. Protector of the British Empire and defender of British freedom, it has provided the template on which nearly all other national navies have modelled themselves. This book…
Cumberland's Culloden Army 1745-46
by Reid, Stuart, Embleton, Gerry, Embleton, Sam
fromMen-at-arms
Cumberland's Culloden Army, 1745-46
by Reid, Stuart, Embleton, G. A., (Gerry A.), Embleton, S., (Sam)
fromMen-at-arms
Cumberland's Culloden Army, 1745-46
by Reid, Stuart, Embleton, G. A., (Gerry A.), Embleton, S., (Sam)
fromMen-at-arms
In August 1745 Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, landed in Scotland and sparked the Second Jacobite Rising. The Jacobite forces seized Perth, then Edinburgh, where they proclaimed the Young Pretender's father King James VIII; they trounced their Hanoverian opponents at…
Franch Napoleonic infantryman 1803-15
by Crowdy, Terry, Hook, Christa
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