The wandering army the campaigns that transformed the British way of war, 1750-1850

The wandering army the campaigns that transformed the British way of war, 1750-1850

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2022.

xix, 500 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm.

355.00941 D255 2022

(OCoLC)1310149834

... how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army's military tactics were tired and outdated, stultified after three decades of peace. The army's leadership was conservative, resistant to change, and unable to match new military techniques developing on the continent. Losses were cataclysmic and the force was in dire need of modernization--both in terms of strategy and in leadership and technology. In this wide-ranging and highly original account, Huw Davies traces the British Army's accumulation of military knowledge across the following century ...--Provided by publisher.|Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-472) and index.|L2023M10|SOC Library acknowledged: p. xvi-xvii; illustration on plate 21 credited to the SOC.|Author was the 2019 Society of Colonial Wars in the state Maryland fellow.

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