Lake's Campaigns in India

Name: Lake's Campaigns in India
Brand: Leonaur Ltd
SKU: 9781846772535
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The Second Anglo Maratha War, 1803-1807

Szerző: H W Pearse

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Warfare in the exotic world of the early days of Britain's Indian Empire. In the early years of the...

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Szerző

H W Pearse

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2007

oldal

212

EAN

9781846772535

ISBN

9781846772535

Enbook ID

08847781

Kiadó

Leonaur Ltd

Súly

420

Méretek

148 x 224 x 22

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Warfare in the exotic world of the early days of Britain's Indian Empire. In the early years of the nineteenth century as Napoleon's French Army dominated Europe the British empire continued with its expansion of power on the Indian Sub-Continent. There, a young general-Arthur Wellesley-who would soon become the Duke of Wellington fought his formative battles-including the one which he would always cite as his hardest fought victory at Assaye. The enemy were the formidable Marathas-one of the pre-eminent martial races of India. Wellington was not alone in this pivotal war for Indian domination. His rising, bright star has always overshadowed the campaigns of Gerard Lake-an accomplished fighting leader of British soldiers now close to the end of his career. Often neglected by historians and students alike, Lake's Indian campaign was fought against a resourceful and ruthless enemy-almost always superior in numbers to his own forces. Commanding an army of a few British regular cavalry and infantry regiments, together with elements of the Honourable East India Company's own army, Lake fought hard battles and invested strongly held fortresses. In this book the reader will discover the mighty strongholds of Aligarh, Agra and Deeg, Lakes own Assaye-Laswari, and the slaughter which was the attempt on the nearly impregnable stronghold of Bhurtpur. Lake appears with a host of colourful supporting characters-Perron and other mercenary 'freelancers', James Skinner and his 'Yellow Boys' irregular cavalry, the incompetent Colonel Monson and Holkar-the despotic and cruel Maratha leader himself.

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