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The Wandering Army - The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War (Hardcover)
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The Wandering Army - The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War (Hardcover)
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A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries-showing 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were tired and outdated, stultified after three decades of peace.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. An essentially global force, British
armies and soldiers continually gleaned and synthesized strategy
from warzones the world over: from Europe to the Americas, Africa,
and Asia. Davies records how the army and its officers put this
globally acquired knowledge to use, exchanging information and
developing into a remarkable vehicle of innovation-leading to the
pinnacle of its military prowess in the nineteenth century.
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