Imperial echoes: eye-witness accounts of Victoria's little wars\ Robert Giddings

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London: Leo Cooper, 1996Description: 260pISBN:
  • 085052394X (hbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: The book contains eye-witness accounts from the following campaigns and minor wars, Gurkha, Burmese and Afghan. This is a collection of imperial echos, grouped together on the basis of their location. A considerable resource from which might be assembled an alternative non-official history of some of the landmarks in British imperial history. The 19th century particularly the late Victorian period was the age of empire. The century begins with a few border, frontier and tribial conflicts in the Indian sub-continent. The British soldier was busy throughout the nineteeth century.
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The book contains eye-witness accounts from the following campaigns and minor wars, Gurkha, Burmese and Afghan. This is a collection of imperial echos, grouped together on the basis of their location. A considerable resource from which might be assembled an alternative non-official history of some of the landmarks in British imperial history. The 19th century particularly the late Victorian period was the age of empire. The century begins with a few border, frontier and tribial conflicts in the Indian sub-continent. The British soldier was busy throughout the nineteeth century.

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