Philip Haythornthwaite

British Light Infantry & Rifle Tactics of the Napoleonic Wars

Illustrator: Hook, Adam

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explains and illustrates the training and tactics of the Light Infantry and Rifle regiments, famously dramatized in the 'Sharpe' novels and TV films. This comprehensive guide will certainly appeal to modellers, wargamers, re-enactors and anyone interested in the Napoleonic wars.

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Produktdetails

• Elite
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 182mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9781472816061
• ISBN-10: 1472816064
• Artikelnr.: 45255604

Autorenporträt

Philip Haythornthwaite is an internationally respected author and historical consultant specializing in the military history, uniforms and equipment of the 18th and 19th centuries. His main area of research covers the Napoleonic Wars. He has written some 40 books, including more than 20 Osprey titles, and numerous articles and papers on military history - but still finds time to indulge in his other great passion, cricket.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - development of Light Infantry tactics in the 18th century
American wars - neglect after 1783
The challenge - development of tirailleur tactics by the French
Revolutionary and Napoleonic armies
Creation of the Rifle units (Experimental Corps of Riflemen; 60th Royal
Americans; 95th Rifle Brigade) - creation of the Light Infantry companies
within Line battalions - creation of Light Infantry regiments: 43rd, 51st,
52nd, 68th, 71st, 85th & 90th
Doctrine and training: de Rottenberg, Manningham, and Sir John Moore - the
Shorncliffe method
Integration of Rifles into infantry formations
Campaign history, from Toulon (1793) to Waterloo (1815), with quoted
examples: the Light Division in the Peninsula - evolution of tactics
through battlefield experience