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Cavalry - Its History and Tactics (Paperback)
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Cavalry - Its History and Tactics (Paperback)
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List price R574
Loot Price R513
Discovery Miles 5 130
You Save R61 (11%)
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First published in 1853, Cavalry: Its History and Tactics had a
major impact on military theorists and officers for decades—it
was reprinted as a manual during the American Civil War—and its
influence on European cavalry performance can be traced into World
War I. It is an intelligent work which discusses the history and
development of cavalry over the ages, advocates a program of reform
for Britain's horsed troops, and covers many aspects of equipment,
training, drill, organization, formation, and battlefield tactics.
The author, an experienced and gifted cavalryman, first served in
the Austrian army, then joined the British army's 15th Hussars in
1839, fought in India, and became the regimental riding master.
Captain Nolan's 1852 tour of European armies, wide reading in many
languages, and service in Europe and India makes Cavalry an
extraordinary statement on mid-nineteenth-century theory and
practice.As historian Jon Coulston explains in his introduction,
Nolan was writing at the cusp of technological change, drawing upon
the experiences of the Napoleonic Wars, continental suppression of
the 1848 Revolutions, and Britain's wars in India, but with an eye
to firepower developments on the eve of the Crimean War. In 1854,
at the Battle of Balaklava, Nolan rode with the written order which
unleashed the Charge of the Light Brigade, an action in which he
lost his life.  Presented here as the first modern
reprint, completely retypeset and with a new introduction and
further reading by historian Jon Coulston, Nolan's Cavalry remains
a hallmark of military history.
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