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The Sikh Wars Source Book: The Rise and Fall of the Khalsa, 1799-1849
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    Victory over Disease: Resolving the Medical Crisis in the Crimean War, 1854-1856
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    Journey Through the Wilderness: Garnet Wolseley's Canadian Red River Expedition of 1870
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    The Furthest Garrison: Imperial Regiments in New Zealand 1840-1870
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    The British & the Sikhs: Discovery, Warfare and Friendship c1700-1900
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    Disputed Victory: Schley, Sampson and the Spanish-American War of 1898
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    In 1898 the United States went to war with Spain o…

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    The Siege of Lucknow 1857: Victorian Warfare in Defeat and Victory
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    For Queen and Company: Vignettes of the Irish Soldier in the Indian Mutiny
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    The British Campaign in Abyssinia, 1867-1868
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    The Battle of Majuba Hill: The Transvaal Campaign, 1880–1881
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    Heroes, Rogues & Vagabonds: Irish VCs of the Crimean War
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    Those men awarded the Victoria Cross during the Cr…

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    Forgotten Victorian Generals. Studies in the exercise of command and control in the British Army 1837-1901
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    Many of the British Army s actions during the Vict…

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    Kitchener: The Man Not the Myth
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    In contrast to the existing biographies which trea…

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    Bazaine 1870: Scapegoat for a Nation
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    Redcoats in the Classroom: The British Army's Schools for Soldiers and their Children during the 19th Century
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    Hungary 1848: The Winter Campaign
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    The Hungarian War of Independence was one of the l…

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    The War of the Two Brothers: The Portuguese Civil War, 1828-1834
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    The German War of 1866: The Bohemian and Moravian Campaign
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    Dust of Glory: The First Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842, its Causes and Course
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    Onwards to Omdurman: The Anglo-Egyptian Campaign to Reconquer the Sudan, 1896-1898
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    On 2 September 1898, the Anglo-Egyptian army under…

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    Victorian Crusaders: British and Irish Volunteers in the Papal Army 1860-70
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    The struggle for Italian Unification brings to min…

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    The Destruction of the Imperial Army Volume 1: The Opening Engagements of the Franco-German War, 1870-1871
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    Shortly after noon on the 2nd August 1870 the Empe…

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    The Spanish Navy in the War of 1898
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    The Spanish American War of 1898 is a significant …

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    Churchill and Small Wars, 1895-1900
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    The term 'small wars' is synonymous with Charles E…

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    The Destruction of the Imperial Army: Volume 2 - The Battles Around Metz
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    The Destruction of the Imperial Army: Volume 3 - The Sedan Campaign 1870
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    The Destruction of the Imperial Army Volume 4: Catastrophe: Sedan, Strasbourg and Metz
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    The Chameleon and the Fly: The AmaNdebele War of 1893
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    The Campaign on the Loire, 1870-1871: Orléans and Le Mans
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    The campaign on the Loire was in many ways the mos…

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    Radetzky's Marches: The Campaigns of 1848 and 1849 in Upper Italy
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    Bismarck's First War: The Campaign of Schleswig and Jutland 1864
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    The Hundred Thousand Sons of St Louis: The French Campaign in Spain April to October 1823
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    This book sheds light on an almost unknown militar…

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    The First Schleswig-Holstein War 1848-50
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    1848 was a turbulent but momentous time in Europe.…

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    War in the East: A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78
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    When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in …

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    Black Week: The British Army and Defeat in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1900
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    In 1899 few readers of Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘The…

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    The Spioenkop Campaign: The Battles to Relieve Ladysmith, 17-27 January 1900
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    More Work than Glory: Buffalo Soldiers in the United States Army, 1866-1916
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    Prior to the 1960s, the term “Buffalo Soldier” was…

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    From Ironclads to Dreadnoughts: The Development of the German Battleship, 1864-1918
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    Too Little, Too Late: The Campaign in West and South Germany, June-July 1866
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    In the spring of 1866, the so-called German Confed…

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    The Battle of Magersfontein: Victory and Defeat on the South African Veld, 10–12 December 1899
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    Hungary 1849: The Summer Campaign
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    The Battle for the Swiepwald: Austria's Fatal Blunder at Koniggratz, The Climactic Battle of the Austro-Prussian War, 3 July 1866
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    From the Atacama to the Andes: Battles of the War of the Pacific 1879-1883
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    With the break up of the Spanish empire in South A…

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    The Fire of Venture was in his Veins: Major Allan Wilson and the Shangani Patrol 1893
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    The Zulu Kingdom and the Boer Invasion of 1837-1840
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    The Battle of Lissa, 1866: How the Industrial Revolution Changed the Face of Naval Warfare
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    It has often been said that, so slow was the proce…

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    Saarbruck to Sedan: The Franco-German War 1870-1871 Volume 1: Uniforms, Organisation and Weapons of the Armies of the Imperial Phase of the War
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    The Franco-German War of 1870-71 saw the demise of…

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    The Rescue They Called a Raid: The Jameson Raid 1895-96
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    Almost one hundred and twenty five years ago, a Sc…

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    A Matter Too Serious to be Overlooked!: The Causes, Course and Results of the AmaNdebele and Mashona Uprisings in 1896
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    Canadians on the Veldt: Canada and the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
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    Decision in Lombardy: The Battle of Solferino, June 24 1859
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    Russian Campaigns in Central Asia: The Russian Military Expeditions to Khiva in 1839 and 1873
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    The Hungarian War of Independence 1848-1849: An Illustrated Military History
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    The Life of Lieut. General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson
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