Название: Our fighting services and how they made the empire
Автор: Wood, Evelyn, Sir
Издательство: London, New York - Cassell and Co.
Страниц: 616
Формат: PDF
Размер: 112 Мб
Качество: Хорошее
Год: 1916
Язык: английский
Wellington's Army Reforms The Napier Family Want of Public Interest in the Army Battle of Hastings Norman Organisation and Administration Invasion The Army under the Romans Feudal System The Navy under Alfred Wardens of the Cinque Ports Created The Rise of the Navy Battle of the Standard Strategy of Edward III. The First Use of Cannon Crefy and Agincourt The Army under Henry V. Wars of the Roses Henry VIII. in France Flodden Field.
IT is just a century ago that England's wars, which had We j lin then been waged for over thirty years, in the East, the West, and in Europe, but always on Lands and Seas far distant from the British Isles, came to an end.
The Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief, realising that the House of Commons would, as it had always done, on the conclusion of Peace, disband the Armyj prepared to face that eventuality. He recognised that the Auxiliary Departments, which he had organised, and perfected between 1810 and 1814, must be the first to disappear, and he designedly scattered the Three Arms by small detached units, in secluded barracks, to save them from extinction at the hands of Parliamentary Economists; he tried to
preserve a small army by hiding it.
