Bayonet to Barrage

Weaponry on the Victorian Battlefield

AvStephen Manning

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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How did technical advances in weaponry alter the battlefield during the reign of Queen Victoria? In 1845, in the first Anglo-Sikh War, the outcome was decided by the bayonet; just over fifty years later, in the second Boer War, the combatants were many miles apart. How did this transformation come about, and what impact did it have on the experience of the soldiers of the period? Stephen Manning, in this meticulously researched and vividly written study, describes the developments in firepower and, using the first-hand accounts of the soldiers, shows how their perception of battle changed.Innovations like the percussion and breech-loading rifle influenced the fighting in the Crimean War of the 1850s and the colonial campaigns of the 1870s and 1880s, in particular in the Anglo-Zulu War and the wars in Egypt and Sudan. The machine gun was used to deadly effect at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, and equally dramatic advances in artillery took warfare into a new era of tactics and organisation.Stephen Manning's work provides the reader with an accurate and fascinating insight into a key aspect of nineteenth-century military history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt:536 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Pen & Sword Books Ltd
ISBN:9781526777218

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Dr Stephen Manning is an Honorary Research Fellow in the History Department at the University of Exeter and has made a special study of Victorian military history. In addition to publishing many articles in academic journals he has written several books including Evelyn Wood VC: Pillar of Empire, Soldiers of the Queen, Quebec: The Story of Three Sieges and The Martini-Henry Rifle.