Fusiliers

Mark Urban

The thrilling and untold story of one Redcoat regiment’s epic battle against the Americans.

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Format
Ebook
ISBN
9780571246908
Date Published
04.09.2008
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Summary

From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one regiment marched thousands of miles and fought a dozen battles to uphold British rule in America: the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Along the way, the Fusiliers adopted new tactics and promoted new leaders which together laid the foundations for the subsequent performance against Napoleon. Drawing on a wealth of new research, Mark Urban, author of the bestselling Rifles, reveals the inner life of the regiment – and, through it, of the British Army as a whole – as it lost the battle against the American revolutionaries, but simultaneously revolutionised the way Britain fought.

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Mark Urban is Diplomatic and Defence Editor for Newsnight. He is the author of, among others, Big Boys’ Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA, Rifles and Fusiliers.

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