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Light Dragoons : the Making of a Regiment.

Although only formed in December 1992, The Light Dragoons look back to a history that began in the days of the first Jacobite rebellion. In 1922 a reduction in the Army's strength saw the amalgamation of four regiments of Hussars into the 13th/18th Hussars and the 15th/19th Hussars. Now they to...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mallinson, Allan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Pen and Sword, 2012.
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Foreword; Preface; 1 The Glorious Reinforcement; 2 Breaking More Windows with Guineas; 3 The Elephant, Superscribed 'Assaye'; 4 To Cooperate with the Spanish Armies; 5 Waterloo; 6 Retrenchment at Home, Mixed Fortunes in India; 7 The Crimea; 8 Unaviodable Involvement in Colonial Wars; 9 No End of a Lesson; 10 Charging Ahead; 11 Still a Use for Cavalry; 12 Going the Distance; 13 Amalgamation and Mechanization; 14 The Road to Dunkirk; 15 Normandy to the Baltic; 16 The Empire Recedes; 17 Fighting the Cold War; 18 No Option But Change.
  • 19 The New World Order: a Decade of OperationsBibliography; Service of the Light Dragoons 1715-1922; Service of the Light Dragoons 1922-1992; Titles borne by the Regiment; Index.