In Defence of British India
Subtitle: Great Britain in the Middle East, 1775-1842
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781306215305; 9781315035048
Subjects: Military policy; Colonies; Defenses; Défense nationale; British colonies; Military readiness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Great Britain's great game : a proposal; title: 3. The end of the spectre of the overland trade, 1775-1801; title: 4. The role of the Indian army at the end of the eighteenth century; title: 5. The failure of British sea power in the war of the second coalition, 1798-1801; title: 6. Towards entanglement with Persia, 1799-1801; title: 7. Lord Mulgrave's proposals for the reconstruction of Europe in 1804; title: 8. The Royal Navy at the Strait of Hormuz, 1807-1808; title: 9. An excursion to the kingdom of Kabul, 1807-1809; title: 10. Rules of the great game in Asia, 1798-1829; title: 11. The struggle over the Persian mission, 1828-1835; title: 12. Three approaches to the great game in Asia.