Arrogant armies
Subtitle: great military disasters and the generals behind them
By: James M. Perry.
Publisher: Castle Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Edison, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Military history, Modern; Disasters; Command of troops
Notes: Originally published: New York : John Wiley, c1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: General Edward Braddock and the French and Indian War (1754-1763); title: Brigadier General Josiah Harmar and Major General Arthur St. Clair and the Indian Wars on the Northwest Frontier (1790-1791); title: British and French Generals and their disastrous efforts to restore slavery to Haiti (1791-1804); title: General Charles MacCarthy and the First Ashanti War (1824); title: Major General William George Keith Elphinstone and the First Afghan War (1839-1842); title: Major General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley and the First Boer War (1880-1881); title: Major General Charles "Chinese" Gordon and the fall of Khartoum (1884-1885); title: General Oreste Baratieri and the First Ethiopian War (1895-1896); title: Major General William R. Shafter and the Spanish-American War (1898); title: Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend and the Mesopotamian Campaign in World War I (1915-1916); title: Major General Manuel Fernandez Silvestre and the Riffian Rebellion in Morocco (1921-1926); title: Conclusion: American mini-disaster in Somalia (1993)