Author: Holmes, Richard,
Title: REDCOAT - The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Muskett.
Description: HarperCollins, London, ND, (circa 2005), reprint, xxx inc. maps, 466pp, 16pp coloured and 16pp half tone photo ills., line drawings in text, coloured pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered and bodered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of life in the British Army from about 1760 to 1860, based on the recollections and experiences of individual soldiers, from the letters and diaries of the men who served and ther women who followed them, from Wolfe's victory and death at Quebec through the American War of Independence, Wellington's Peninsular War, Waterloo, Kabul, the Sikh Wars and the INdian Mutiny, ex public library copy with just a stamp on verso title and withdrawn stamp half title, slightly shaken and cocked, a little bumped at tips, edges tanned, some surface loss to front free endpaper, dustwerapper: a little rubbed at extrems., very good reading copy in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: military history brtish soldier army redcoat wolfe quebec america war independence peninsular waterloo sikh indian mutiny kabul


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