King George’s Army: British Regiments and the Men who Led Them
1793–1815 will contain five volumes, with coverage given to cavalry
regiments (Volume 1), infantry regiments (Volumes 2–4), and Ordnance
and other regiments (Volume 5). It is the natural extension to the web
series of the same name by the same author which existed one Napoleon
Series from 2009 until 2019, but greatly expanded to include
substantially more biographical information including biographies of
leading political gures concerned with the administration of the army
as well as commanders in chief of all major commands. Volume 1 covers
in great detail the cavalry regiments that comprised the army of King
George III for the period of the Great War with France, and the men
who commanded them. Regimental data provided includes shortform
regimental lineages, service locations and dispositions for the era,
battle honors won, tables of authorized establishments, demographics
of the field officer cohorts and of the men. But the book is
essentially concerned with the field officers, the lieutenant colonels
and majors who commanded the regiments, and Volume 1 alone contains
over 1,000 mini-biographies of men who commanded the regiments,
including their dates of birth and death, parentage, education, career
(including political), awards and honors, and places of residence.
Volumes 2 to 5 will extend the coverage to ultimately record over
4,500 biographies across more than 200 regiments. These biographies
will show the regimental system in action, officers routinely
transferring between regiments for advancement or opportunity,
captains who were also (brevet) colonels, many who retired early, some
who stayed the distance to become major generals and beyond. Where it
has been possible to accurately ascertain, advancement by purchase,
exchange or promotion has also been noted. Readers with military
ancestors will no doubt find much of interest within, and the author
hopes that the work will allow readers to break down a few ‘brick
walls’; either through connecting to the officers recorded, or
through an understanding of the movements of the regiments around the
world, or from the volunteering patterns of the militia regiments into
the regular army. Encyclopedic in scope, and aimed to be a lasting
source of reference material for the British army that fought the
French Revolution and Napoleon between 1793 and 1815, King George’s
Army: British Regiments and the Men who Led Them will be a necessary
addition to every military and family history library for years to
come.
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Volume 1: Administration and Cavalry
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781804516010
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Vendor
Helion and Company
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter