The Tactics of Home Defence (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Callwell, Charles Edward

9780266167846: The Tactics of Home Defence (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0266167845 ISBN 13: 9780266167846

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Possibly this indifference finds root in our history. During the embittered warfare which from time to time desolated the country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the more decisive battles, those whose names we all re member, took place for the most part upon open ground. Edgehill, Marston Moor, and N aseby in central England; Dunbar, Killiecrankie, and Culloden beyond the Tweed; Newton Butler in the Emerald Isle, were all fought in country which was practically unenclosed. The two battles of Newbury no doubt had terrain greatly cut up by hedgerows for their scene. St Ruth's position beyond the morass at Aughrim rested on an undulation, where the solid Irish banks 1 with their contiguous trenches. Formed natural lines of defence parallel to the general front. But as a general rule the actions of our civil wars had for their site tracts of heath, or rolling downs, or open cultivated lands such as we see to-day in Picardy or Westphalia.

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