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Queen Victoria's Enemies: Northern Africa

By Ian Knight , Richard Scollins

Book information

Publisher
Osprey
Year
1989
ISBN
9780850459371, 0-85045-937-0
Open Library ID
OL8265001M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (24531953 bytes)
Series
Men At Arms 215
Volume
vol 2
Pages
50\50
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

The British Army in Queen Victoria's reign had to fight a series of separate and unrelated regional campaigns across the northern half of Africa. The local conditions and peoples varied greatly, from the forest-dwellers of Asante to Moslem fundamentalists in the burning desert wastes of the Sudan, requiring considerable flexibility and professionalism from an Army often popularly held to be rigid and traditionalist. From the story of Gen. Lord Napier's engagement with the 'mad' Emperor of Abyssinia, Tewdros, and the storming of his mountain fortress, to the struggle against the Mahdi in the Sudan, this addition to Osprey's Men-at-Arms series makes for fascinating reading indeed.

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