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| The Training of the British Army, 1715-1795 | Sandpiper Editions | |||
| JA Houlding | ||||
| Oxford University Press 1999 488 pages | ||||
| Hardback maps 0198226470 | ||||
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| In this study of the army's training regimen in the period between Marlborough's campaigns and the Duke of York's reforms, Houlding examines the circumstances that led to such ill-preparedness that one officer considered his troops 'in imminent danger of being cut to pieces in our first encounter.' Purchased commissions and the lack of drill regulations are commonly blamed for the poor training of the 18th century army. Houlding challenges that view, analysing War Office documents to present a detailed account of the army's peacetime preoccupations with civil matters which, he concludes, left it short of the time and opportunity for training. Our own Sandpiper reprint (1981) | ||||
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The Plague in Shakespeare's London | |||
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| FP Wilson | ||||
| Oxford University Press 1999 294 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0198208103 | ||||
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| Two epidemics of plague swept through Elizabethan London, in 1603 and 1625, with little more than spiritual cleanliness and 'a good Sivill orange stuck with cloves' to impede their progress. Drawing on literary and documentary sources that include the graphic eye-witness accounts of Thomas Dekker's Plague Pamphlets, Wilson narrates the history of plague in early 17th century London, beginning with contemporary theories about its causes and cure, and giving a detailed account of the rise of the plague-orders from their inception in 1518 up to 1625. Our own Sandpiper reprint. 1927, 2nd Ed-1963 | ||||
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