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020 _a1854091964 (hbk.)
100 1 _aHAYTHORNTHWAITE Philip J
245 0 _aThe Colonial wars source book/
_c Philip J Haythornthwaite
260 _aLondon:
_bArms and Armour Press,
_c1995
300 _a384p.
520 _aThe text is divided geographically, with separate sections, on the Indian subcontinent, Africa and the Mediteranean, the East, the Americas and the Atlantic, and Australiasia and the Pacific with countries or regions covered separately within each sections. Each includes concise accounts of the military operations, and brief details of the forces involved, though limitations of space preclude detailed orders-of-battle for either British or opposing forces. Other sections include a survey of the British army and navy which formed the nucleus of the forces that conducted miost of the campaigns with notes on weapons and tactics.
650 _aBRITSH ARMY
650 _aMILITARY FORCES
650 _aAUSTRALASIA
_x MILITARY OPERATIONS
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_rY
_sY
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