Light Dragoons : the making of a regiment / / Allan Mallinson
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| Autore: |
Mallinson Allan
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| Titolo: |
Light Dragoons : the making of a regiment / / Allan Mallinson
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| Pubblicazione: | South Yorkshire, England : , : Pen & Sword Military, , 2012 |
| ©2012 | |
| Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (425 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 357.10941 |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain History, Military |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Maps""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""1 The Glorious Reinforcement""; ""2 Breaking More Windows with Guineas""; ""3 The Elephant, Superscribed 'Assaye'""; ""4 To Cooperate with the Spanish Armies""; ""5 Waterloo""; ""6 Retrenchment at Home, Mixed Fortunes in India""; ""7 The Crimea""; ""8 Unaviodable Involvement in Colonial Wars""; ""9 No End of a Lesson""; ""10 Charging Ahead""; ""11 Still a Use for Cavalry""; ""12 Going the Distance""; ""13 Amalgamation and Mechanization""; ""14 The Road to Dunkirk"" |
| ""15 Normandy to the Baltic""""16 The Empire Recedes""; ""17 Fighting the Cold War""; ""18 No Option But Change""; ""19 The New World Order: a Decade of Operations""; ""Bibliography""; ""Service of the Light Dragoons 1715-1922""; ""Service of the Light Dragoons 1922-1992""; ""Titles borne by the Regiment""; ""Index"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Although only formed in December 1992, The Light Dragoons look back to a history that began in the days of the first Jacobite rebellion. In 1922 a reduction in the Army's strength saw the amalgamation of four regiments of Hussars into the 13th/18th Hussars and the 15th/19th Hussars. Now they too have been amalgamated, with a name that reverts to the titles of the four original regiments in the eighteenth century. Allan Mallinson, the novelist and a former commanding officer of the 13th/18th Hussars, not only follows with admirable clarity and dexterity the fortunes of The Light Dragoons' prede |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Light Dragoons |
| ISBN: | 1-4738-1597-5 |
| 1-78383-665-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791027803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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