A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS
Stock no. 1804526
1st thus.
1912.
Hardback.
Good condition.
Reprinted by permission from 'The King's Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle' of 1911, and published 1912. Dark green cloth spine with no title, green paper boards. B/w frontis and fold-out maps. 52 pages. Rear board missing and has been replaced and repaired with a soft board. Minor foxing present.
Front cover
Contents
- PREFACE
- PART I. 1755-1824
- Sections.
- 1. 1755-1763 Origin of the Regiment and its Services in North America
- 2. 1764-1807 West Indies and the American War
- 3. 1808-1824 Peninsular War - 60th The Roya American Regiment become 60th The Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps
- PART II. 1825-1870
- 4. 1825-1856 Sikh War - South Africa
- 5. 1857-1860 Delhi - Rohilkund - Pekin
- 6. 1861-1870 North America - Red River
- PART III. 1871-1902
- 7. 1871-1881 India - Afgan War - South Africa - Zulu War - First Boer War
- 8. 1882-1885 Egypt, 1882, Tel-el-Kebir - Egypt 1884, El Teb, and Tamai - and 1884-85 Nile Expedition - Mounted Infantry
- 9. 1886-1898 India, Wreck of Warren Hastings
- 10. 1899-1902 - South African War - Talana Hill - Defence of Ladysmith - Relief of Ladysmith - Transvaal
- PART IV
- A Retrospect
- MAPS