Too late to be reviewed by David Chandler in this issue is COLONIAL SMALL WARS by Donald Featherstone. (9 1/4" x 7 1/2"; 160pgs; 79 maps. David and Charles - £ 3.95P. Personally inscribed and autographed by author from Wargamer's Newsletter - £ 4.20p).
This is a detailed description of all the minor actions along the extending frontiers of the British Empire which constantly disturbed Queen Victoria's long reign. The contents of the book are as follows:
Prologue; introduction; what is a small war?; the Victorian soldier; the weapons that won an Empire; revolt in Canada; the capture of Aden and operations against the Persians, 1838; the first Afghan War, 1838; War in the Levant, 1840; War in China , 1840-1; Afghanistan, 1842; the conquest of Sind, 1843; the Gwalior War, 1843; the first Sikh War, 1845-6; campaigns against Boers and Kaffirs in South Africa, 1838-52; the second Sikh War, 1646-9; North-West Frontier of India, 1847; 1848; 1850; 1852; 1853; 1854; the Second Burmese War, 1852; the Eureka Stockade, Australia, 1854; the War with Persia, 1856; the storming of the Taku Forts, 1859-60; the Maori Wars, 18614; operations in Sikkim, 1861; expeditions on the North-West Frontier, 1858-67; the Ambels Expedition, 1863; Japan, 1864; Bhutan, 1865; the British Expedition to Abyssinia, 1868; Canada - the Red River Expedition, 1870; the Ashanti War, 1874; the Expedition to Perak, 1875-6; the Kaffir War, 1877; North-West Frontier, 1878- 9; the Second Afghan War, 1878; the third Afghan War, 1879; the Zulu War, 1879;. Operations on the North-West Frontier, 1880-4; the first Boer War, 1881; the bombardment of Alexandria, 1882; the Expedition to the Sudan, 1884-51 the third Burmese War, 1885; the battles around Suakin, 1885; the end of the Nile Campaign, 1885; minor operations on the North-West Frontier of India, 1888-92; minor operations in India 1888-94; the siege and relief of Chitral, 1895; the Mashonaland Field Force, 1896; the re-conquest of Egypt, 1896-8; the operations of the Tirah Expeditionary Force, 1897-8; operations on the North-West Frontier, 1897-81; the Boxer Rising , 1900-1; epilogue; recommended reading; appendix 1 locations of the Colonial Campaigns; appendix 2 list of Line Infantry Battalions, Index.
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