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By the Hon. J. W. FORTESCUE

A

HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY

With numerous Maps and Plans.

8 vo.


Vols I. and II. To the Close of the Seven Years' War. 18s. net each.

Vol. III. To the Second Peace of Paris. 18s. net.

Vol. IV. From the Fall of the Bastille to the Peace of Amiens. In Two Parts and a separate volume of Maps. 42s. net.

Vol. V. From the Renewal of the War to the Evacuation of Rio de la Plata (1803-1807). 18s. net.

Vol. VI. From the Expedition to Egypt, 1807, to the Battle of Coruña, Jan. 1809. 18s. net.

Vol. VII. 1809-1810. With a separate volume of Maps. 21s. net.

Vol. VIII. 1811-1812. With a separate volume of Maps. 30s. net.


SOME PRESS OPINIONS


VOLUMES I. and II.

ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW.—"Mr. Fortescue has been the first to construct a scholarly and connected story of the growth of our military institutions and of the development of tactics as revealed in a continuous series of wars. His style is lucid, and his descriptions of battles are easy to follow. But his chief merit is a well-balanced judgment."


VOLUME III.

TIMES.—"Whatever Mr. Fortescue may do in the future, he has already, in his first three volumes, produced one of the most important military works in the English language. It is sincerely to be hoped that they will be read as widely as they deserve to be."


VOLUME IV.

TIMES.—"We are witnessing the birth of a military classic which is, and will be for some generations to come, without a peer in the subject to which it relates. The debt which the British Army owes to the writer of this moving chronicle of its great achievements, its grandeurs, and its miseries can only be repaid if every member of the Army endeavours to assimilate for himself, and for the profit of his country, Mr. Fortescue's admirable and most instructive pages."


VOLUMES V. and VI.

SPECTATOR.—"The new volumes of A History of the British Army are of the same high quality as those which have gone before. We can give no higher praise, for Mr. Fortescue can only be compared with himself. He has no rivals as a student of military history, and we question whether he has any living superior as an historian."


VOLUME VII.

BROAD ARROW.—"This is a worthy successor to the volumes which have preceded it, and the whole forms a great work by a great, an impartial, and a bold writer."


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