Naval and military essays
Subtitle: being papers read in the Naval and Military Section at the International Congress of Historical Studies, 1913.
Series: Cambridge naval and military series
Publisher: University Press
Published: 1914
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Naval history; Military history
Table of contents: title: A. Naval: Historians and naval history, by Sir J. K. Laughton. Staff histories, by J. S. Corbett. Naval history from the naval officer's point of view, by Captain H. W. Richmond. Samuel Pepys as a naval official, by J. R. Tanner. Naval history and the necessity of a catalogue of sources, by Lieutenant A. Dewar. Appendix: Rough guide to British sources of naval history in the seventeenth century (p. 95-114); title: B. Military: The difficulties encountered in compiling military history, by Colonel Sir L. Hale. The value of the study of military history as training for command in war, by Lieutenant-Colonel F. B. Maurice. The practical application of military history, by Lieutenant-Colonel N. Malcolm. Précis of the plans of Napoleon for the autumn campaign of 1813, by J. H. Rose. The influence of tactical ideas on warfare, by L. S. Amery. Field-Marshal Prince Schwarzenberg: a character sketch, by Dr. J. F. Novák. A defence of military history; synopsis of paper read by Professor C. W. C. Oman. Foreign regiments in the British service, 1793-1815; synopsis of paper read by C. T. Atkinson.; title: Index.