19th Century Military History Books
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Nile River Gunboats 1882–1918
NVG 239 Multiple formatsFor more than 30 years the Nile river gunboat was an indispensable tool of empire, policing the great river and acting as floating symbols of British imperial power. They participated in every significant... -
The Men Who Would Be Kings
OWG 16 Multiple formatsThe Men Who Would Be Kings is a set of rules designed for fighting historical or Hollywood colonial battles in the mid to late 19th Century, from the Indian Mutiny to the Boxer Rebellion. Large scale colonial... -
Apache Warrior vs US Cavalryman
CBT 19 Multiple formatsFrom the 1840s onward, United States military forces clashed with the Apache, a group of Native American peoples associated with the southwestern part of North America. US territorial expansion and conflict... -
The First Afghan War 1839–42
CAM 298 Multiple formatsIn 1839 forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king Shah Soojah to his rightful throne. The reality was that this was another... -
Steampunk Soldiers
OBK Multiple formatsEven as the discovery and exploitation of hephaestium helped bring the Civil War to its close in 1869, the arms race it engendered resulted in a cold war just as bitter and violent as the open hostilities... -
Imperial Chinese Armies 1840–1911
MAA 505 Multiple formatsAn in-depth analysis of the Chinese Armies that fought a series of increasingly fractious wars over nearly a century. Beginning with a run through of the Chinese forces that combated the British and French... -
Armies of the War of the Pacific 1879–83
MAA 504 Multiple formatsThe Pacific War was the greatest and bloodiest war ever fought in the Andean region, and is one of the most important conflicts in South American history. It is also known as the 'Saltpeter War' or the... -
The In & Out
Multiple formatsThe Naval and Military Club - or the 'In & Out' as it is affectionately known - is one of Britain's greatest and oldest service clubs and this book tells its rich and entertaining history for the first... -
Winchester Lever-Action Rifles
WPN 42 Multiple formatsWinchester lever-action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West. Introduced after the American Civil War, the first Winchester, the M1866, would go on to see military... -
Tippecanoe 1811
CAM 287 Multiple formatsThis is the gripping story of the Tippecanoe campaign of 1811: ‘The prophet's battle'. It was a conflict born out of festering tensions inscribed by the 1795 Treaty of Greeneville, which had...
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