The Military Forces of the Crown: Their Organisation and Equipment
- Author(s): William Henry Daniel
- Category: Militaria & Weapons
- Publisher: Cassell
- Publish year: 1901
- ISBN: 9678000004406
- Number of Pages: 285
"A Power to which for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared — a Power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and her military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England."
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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. IMPERIAL DEFENCE AND COMMAND OF THE SEA
CHAPTER II. THE GROWTH OF THE ARMY.
CHAPTER III INFANTRY.
CHAPTER IV. CAVALRY.
CHAPTER V. ARTILLERY.
CHAPTER VI. ROYAL ENGINEERS
CHAPTER VII. MOUNTED INFANTRY.
CHAPTER VIII. CYCLISTS.
CHAPTER IX. THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS.
CHAPTER X. THE ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE AND DEPARTMENTAL CORPS.
CHAPTER XI. THE INDIAN ARMY.
CHAPTER XII. COLONIAL CORPS.
CHAPTER XIII. YEOMANRY.
CHAPTER XIV. THE MILITIA.
CHAPTER XV. VOLUNTEERS.
CHAPTER XVI. COLONIAL MILITARY FORCES.
CHAPTER XVII. THE MODERN ORGANISATION OF THE BRITISH ARMY.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE CORT OF THE ARMY.
CHAPTER XIX. THE SUPPLY OF OFFICERS.
CHAPTER XX. THE PROMOTION OF OFFICERS.
CHAPTER XXI. STAFF.
CHAPTER XXII. ENLISTMENT AND DISCHARGE.
CHAPTER XXIII. SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT SERVICES.
CHAPTER XXIV. BARRACK SERVICES.
CHAPTER XXV. ALLOWANCES.
CHAPTER XXVI. CLOTHING.
CHAPTER XXVII. MOBILISATION.
CHAPTER XXVIII. TRANSPORT AND SUPPLY IN THE FIELD.
CHAPTER XXIX. DEMOBILISATION.
CHAPTER XXX. WEAPONS USED IN SOUTH AFR.ICA, 1899-1901.
CHAPTER XXXI. WAR OFFICE ORGANISATION.
APPENDIX.