How the Army Made Britain a Global Power Black Jeremy
How the Army Made Britain a Global Power Black Jeremy Between 1760 and 1815, British troops campaigned from Manila to Montreal, Cape Town to Copenhagen, Washington to Waterloo. This book will both…
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How the Army Made Britain a Global Power Black Jeremy
Between 1760 and 1815, British troops campaigned from Manila to Montreal, Cape Town to Copenhagen, Washington to Waterloo. This book will both offer a new perspective, one that concentrates on the global role of the army and its central part in imperial expansion and preservation, and as such will be a major book for military history and world history. The naval dimension of Britain's expansion has been superbly covered by a number of excellent studies, but there has not been a single volume that does the same for the army and, in particular, looks at how and why it became a world-operating force, one capable of beating the Marathas as well as the French.
There will be a focus on what the army brought to power equations and how this made it a world-level force.The multipurpose character of the army emerges as the key point, one seen in particular in the career of Wellington: