A History and Atlas of Victorias Wars, 18151902

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Nick Lipscombe MSc FRHistS served for 34 years in the British Army. He is an award-winning historian, author, and lecturer, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2016. He taught at the University of Oxford's Department of Continuing Education for a decade on retirement from the British Army and remains an active member of numerous historical societies.

His works include The Peninsular War Atlas (2010), which was selected as the Daily Telegraph (History) Book of the Year; Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo (2013), awarded the Alfred Burne Memorial Medal from the Royal Regiment of Artillery; The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1639-51 (2020), a runner up for the prestigious Templer Medal Book Prize; Wellington's Forgotten Front (2012); Bayonne and Toulouse 1813-14 (2014); and Wellington's Eastern Front (2016). He was also the editor for the official Waterloo 200 Bicentenary compendium (2014).

Klappentext

A lavishly presented atlas covering the many battles and campaigns that defined the reign of Queen Victoria.

In 1815 the Treaty of Vienna concluded the Napoleonic Wars and provided the basis for a general European peace that lasted for nearly one hundred years. Great Britain's last European rival for Empire and global domination had been neutralized, and by 1900, 10 million square miles of territory and 400 million people were under British control.

British and colonial forces were engaged in action somewhere across the world on every day of Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901), and these conflicts are expertly explained and illustrated in this definitive atlas. Over this period of so-called Pax Britannica, Queen Victoria awarded or sanctioned 37 campaign medals, with a total of 185 clasps, for copious small wars, fought against irregular forces, as well as larger-scale conflicts fought against regular armies.

Featuring 147 newly created maps, this beautifully presented atlas examines the role of Victoria's Army, and to a lesser extent the Royal Navy, in the sweeping victories and dismal defeats of what Rudyard Kipling called the 'savage wars of peace'.

Inhalt

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Legend to Maps
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Instruments of Power
Chapter 2: Britain and Britishness, 1815-32
Chapter 3: Britain and the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars
Chapter 4: The Americas
Chapter 5: Africa
Chapter 6: India, Ceylon, and the East Indies
Chapter 7: The Great Game Rivalry
Chapter 8: India, the Aftermath of Failure
Chapter 9: India, the First Anglo-Sikh War, 1845-46
Chapter 10: The Second Anglo-Sikh War
Chapter 11: India, Securing the Empire, 1849-57
Chapter 12: War in Crimea, 1854-56
Chapter 13: China and the Opium Wars, 1839-64
Chapter 14: Australasia and the New Zealand (Maori) Wars, 1830-72
Chapter 15: Canada, Rebellion, and Self-Government
Chapter 16: The Anglo-Persian War, 1856-57
Chapter 17: Mutiny and Uprising in India, 1857-58
Chapter 18: India after 1858
Chapter 19: The Exploration of East Africa, 1845-68
Chapter 20: West Africa, War with the Asante, 1863-74
Chapter 21: South Africa and the Frontier Wars, 1850-80
Chapter 22: South Africa, the First Boer War, 1881
Chapter 23: North Africa, Egypt, and Sudan, 1879-85
Chapter 24: Reconquest of Sudan, 1896-99
Chapter 25: The Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-80
Chapter 26: India's Frontiers, the North-West Frontier, 1878-1900
Chapter 27: India's Frontiers, the North-East Frontier, 1879-1900
Chapter 28: Africa, Miscellaneous Wars, 1881-1902
Chapter 29: The Great Boer War, the Boer Offensive, 1899
Chapter 30: The Great Boer War, Guerrilla Warfare, 1900-02
Chapter 31: Epilogue - The Sun Never Sets
Appendix 1: Key British Personalities and Appointments, 1815-1902
Appendix 2: British Possessions, 1583-1902
Appendix 3: British, EIC, and Local Medals Issued to British Forces, 1801-1902
Appendix 4: Expeditions and Campaigns on the North-West Frontier
Appendix 5: British and Bengal Native Infantry Units During the Sepoy Mutiny
Glossary
Bibliography
Index