The events of 1857 to 1859 were tragic and momentous. The challenge to British colonial rule was on an unprecedented scale. This book places these grim events into their historical, political and economic contexts. The author's use of sources including personal accounts brings events of a century and a half ago vividly to life.
The Afghan people on India's North-West frontier proved to be the rock of independence on which the wave of British imperial conquest broke three times and from which it eventually receded. This book covers all three Afghan wars using material only recently made available.
* Classic study of the British Army in India * Detailed account of the relationships of the army at home and on the subcontinent * Insight into the evolution of the British Indian Army from the time of the East India Company to Independence
This is a biographical dictionary of the two flag officers and captains of 27 battleships, four frigates and two minor combatant vessels that were present under Nelson's command at the historic battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805.
Balochistan remains an intractable problem for Pakistan today yet in the nineteenth century, as this history reveals, the British encountered formidable opposition when trying to bring the region under imperial domination.
