Britain's 20 Worst Military Disasters: From the Roman Conquest to the Fall of SingaporeThe History Press, 23 sep. 2016 - 256 sidor Crecy, Agincourt, Blenheim, Trafalgar, Waterloo, El Alamein – the names trip off the tongue and resound through our history. Great British military victories, often won against the odds. But what of the defeats and disasters – from our conquest by Roman armies to the fall of Singapore in 1942, described by Churchill as the 'worst disaster' in our military history. This is the story of those disasters, and the ones in between. From famous battles like Hastings and Yorktown, to those that are less well-known but had far-reaching consequences, such as Castillon. Others, like the Battle of the Medway in 1667, which were deeply shameful – 'a dishonour never to be wiped off' – but had relatively little long term impact. Sometimes, a brilliant retreat helped prevent an even greater calamity, as at Gallipoli and Dunkirk. It is an epic story following British armies and navies across the world to France, Africa, North and South America and the Far East. It is a tale of bungling, miscalculation, unpreparedness and heroism. |
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Introduction | |
The Battle of the Medway AD | |
The Battle of Watling Street AD 60 or 61 | |
The Battle of Mons Graupius AD 83 or 84 | |
Crecganford AD 457 and Dyrham AD 577 | |
The Battle of Hastings 1066 | |
The Battle of Castillon 1453 | |
The Battle of the Medway 1667 | |
The First Afghan War 1842 | |
Charge of the Light Brigade 1854 | |
The Battle of Isandlwana 1879 | |
Khartoum 1885 | |
the Boer War 1899 | |
Gallipoli 1915 | |
The Battle of the Somme 1916 | |
The Road to Dunkirk 1940 | |
The Siege of Cartagena de Indias 1741 | |
Surrender at Yorktown 1781 | |
The Castlebar Races 1798 | |
The Battle of New Orleans 1815 | |
The Fall of Singapore 1942 | |
Bibliography | |
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Britain's 20 Worst Military: From the Roman Conquest to the Fall of Singapore John Withington Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2016 |