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Arrogant armies : great military disasters and the generals behind them
- Title
- Arrogant armies : great military disasters and the generals behind them / James M. Perry.
- Author
- Perry, James M. (James Moorhead)
- Publication
- New York : John Wiley, c1996.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | Sc E 98-555 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Description
- vi, 314 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-308) and index.
- Contents
- General Edward Braddock and the French and Indian War (1754-1763) -- Brigadier General Josiah Harmar and Major General Arthur St. Clair and the Indian Wars on the Northwest Frontier (1790-1791) -- British and French Generals and their disastrous efforts to restore slavery to Haiti (1791-1804) -- General Charles MacCarthy and the First Ashanti War (1824) -- Major General William George Keith Elphinstone and the First Afghan War (1839-1842) -- Major General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley and the First Boer War (1880-1881) -- Major General Charles "Chinese" Gordon and the fall of Khartoum (1884-1885) -- General Oreste Baratieri and the First Ethiopian War (1895-1896) -- Major General William R. Shafter and the Spanish-American War (1898) -- Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend and the Mesopotamian Campaign in World War I (1915-1916) -- Major General Manuel Fernandez Silvestre and the Riffian Rebellion in Morocco (1921-1926) -- Conclusion: American mini-disaster in Somalia (1993)
- Call Number
- JFE 96-8975
- ISBN
- 0471119768 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 95038345
- OCLC
- 33010064
- Author
- Perry, James M. (James Moorhead)
- Title
- Arrogant armies : great military disasters and the generals behind them / James M. Perry.
- Imprint
- New York : John Wiley, c1996.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-308) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 96-8975Sc E 98-555