The history of the 13th battery royal field artillery from 1759 to 1913 / / Major H. Marriott Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828892903321
• Autore: Smith H. Marriott, Major
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Uckfield : , : The Naval & Military Press Ltd., , [2014]
• ISBN: 1-283-69313-5; 1-78149-139-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (55 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.0213
• Soggetti: Artillery, Field and mountain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Frontispiece; Title Page; Body Matter; I: Early Years; II: Egypt; III: Corunna; IV: Vittoria to Waterloo; V: The Long Peace; VI: The Crimea; VII: The Mutiny and After; VIII: South African Campaign; Back Matter; Appendix A: Battery Movements and Stations; Appendix B: Battery Establishments; Appendix C: Pay of Various Ranks of 13th Battery R.F.A. from 1759 to 1913; Appendix D: Commanding Officers
• Sommario/riassunto: As the author says, this history, published a year before the outbreak of the Great War, has been written for the soldiers of the battery, past, present and future. It is written in the form of a yearly diary with the year in the left margin, opposite the text describing events of that year. Some entries are very thin, a couple of lines, but other years have a more detailed story to tell - 1808/09 Corunna, 1855 the Crimea, and 1899-1901 the S. African War where the years are divided into mon...