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Queen Victoria's Enemies (4) - Asia, Australasia and the Americas

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Men-at-Arms - 1800 - 1900 A.D.

MSRP old price: $17.95


Product Info

Title
Queen Victoria's Enemies (4) - Asia, Australasia and the Americas
Publisher
Category
Author
Ian Knight
Publish Year
2005
Pages
48
Dimensions
8x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147397245
MFG. Part #
OSPMAA224
Type
Softcover
Series
MAA224

Description

Due to the spread of British strategic and commercial interests during the Victorian period, the British military was called upon to serve in theatres across the world. Some of the fighting was severe; it took nearly 30 years of intermittent warfare to suppress Maori opposition to settler expansion in New Zealand. In other areas it amounted to little more than skirmishing, as in Brooke's campaign against the pirates of Borneo and the Jamaican revolt of 1865. This book details these various 'small wars' and examines the qualities of the disparate peoples who opposed the spread of the British Empire.