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David & Charles, Published 1973. Hardcover, 223 pp.; 25 cm; illustrated with 79 maps and battle plans.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dark blue boards with gold lettering on spine; minimal shelf wear to covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's circular blind stamp on front free endpaper; otherwise interior pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated dust jacket with Victorian cavalry charge painting on front cover shows light edge wear with a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges; minor overall shelf wear; not price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. A comprehensive account of 45 Victorian-era colonial campaigns from 1837 to 1901, covering British military expeditions in Canada, Afghanistan, India, China, Africa, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Featherstone defines "small wars," describes the Victorian soldier and his weapons, and details each campaign with specially drawn maps and plans never before collected in a single volume. Contents: What Is a Small War?; The Victorian Soldier; The Weapons That Won an Empire; Revolt in Canada, 1837; The Capture of Aden, 1838; The First Afghan War, 1838; War in the Levant, 1840; War in China, 1840-1; Afghanistan 1842; The Conquest of Sind, 1843; The Gwalior War, 1843; The First Sikh War, 1845-6; Campaigns against Boers and Kaffirs in South Africa, 1838-52; The Second Sikh War, 1848-9; North-West Frontier of India, 1847/54; The Second Burmese War, 1852; The Eureka Stockade, Australia, 1854; The War with Persia, 1856-7; The Storming of the Taku Forts, 1859-60; The Maori Wars, 1861-4; Operations in Sikkim, 1861; Expeditions on the North-West Frontier, 1858-67; The Ambela Expedition, 1863; Japan, 1864; Bhutan, 1865; The British Expedition to Abyssinia, 1868; Canada, The Red River Expedition, 1870; The Ashanti War, 1874; The Expedition to Perak, 1875-6; The Kaffir War, 1877; North-West Frontier 1878-9; The Second Afghan War, 1878; The Third Afghan War, 1879; The Zulu War, 1879; Operations on the North-West Frontier, 1880-4; The First Boer War, 1881; The Bombardment of Alexandria, 1882; The Expedition to the Sudan, 1884-5; The Third Burmese War, 1885; The Battles around Suakin, 1885; The End of the Nile Campaign, 1885; Minor Operations on the North-West Frontier of India, 1888-92; Minor Operations in India, 1888-94; The Siege and Relief of Chitral, 1895; The Mashonaland Field Force, 1896; The Re-Conquest of Egypt, 1896-8; The Operations of the Tirah Expeditionary Force, 1897-8; Operations on the North-West Frontier, 1897-8; The Boxer Rising, 1900; appendices; recommended reading; index.