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Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: The Cruise of HMS Calliope in China Australian and East African Waters 1887-1890 (Paperback)

Arthur Cornwallis Evans (1860-1935) was chaplain on the steamship HMS Calliope on a three-year voyage to Asia and Australia (January 1887 to April 1890) that covered 76 814 nautical miles (88 395 miles) with more than 500 days spent at sea. He compiled... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: History of the War in France and Belgium in 1815 2 Volume Set: Containing Minute Details of the Battles of Quatre-Bras Ligny Wavre and Wa

Originally published in 1844 this two-volume work by William Siborne (1797-1830) represented the first major history of the Waterloo Campaign that was based on eyewitness accounts. Although Siborne an infantry officer had not served in the campaign... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Sea-Power: And Other Studies (Paperback)

A naval officer from a generation that could spend an average of between 250 and 300 days a year at sea Sir Cyprian Bridge (1839-1924) used this extensive experience and the knowledge he gained from wide reading to become a highly respected commander... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Rough Notes of the Campaign in Sinde and Affghanistan in 1838-9: Being Extracts from a Personal Journal Kept While on the Staff of the Army

These extracts from the personal journal of Sir James Outram (1803-63) which he kept while serving with the 23rd Regiment in the British Army of the Indus describe the British campaigns in Sindh and Afghanistan in 1838-9. In the preface to the book... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Naval Warfare with Steam (Paperback)

Sir Howard Douglas (1776-1861) fought in the Napoleonic wars in Spain taught at the Royal Military College served as lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands and as a Conservative M.P. for Liverpool. A military... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: The War from the Landing at Gallipoli to the Death of Lord Raglan (Paperback)

The journalist William Howard Russell (1820-1907) is sometimes regarded as being the first war correspondent and his reports from the conflict in the Crimea are also credited with being a cause of reforms made to the British military system. Published... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Narrative of Events During the Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte: And the Retreat of the French Army 1812 (Paperback)

A colourful British general Robert Wilson (1777-1849) was knighted many times over by crowned heads but never by his own monarch. Described by Wellington as a very slippery fellow he fought in the Peninsular and Napoleonic wars and his published... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Military Operations at Cabul Which Ended in the Retreat and Destruction of the British Army January 1842: With a Journal of Imprisonment in

Vincent Eyre (1811-81) was an English officer in the East India Company from 1827 and took part in the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42) which ended in disaster for the British. He would later become a major-general and a Knight Commander of the Star of... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: The War: From the Death of Lord Raglan to the Evacuation of the Crimea (Paperback)

William Howard Russell (1820-1907) is today credited with having shaped the image and role of the modern war correspondent. His dispatches for The Times during the Crimean War were so influential that they led to military reforms and the fall of the... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: General Todleben s History of the Defence of Sebastopol 1854-5: A Review (Paperback)

The journalist William Howard Russell (1820-1907) is sometimes regarded as being the first war correspondent and his reports from the conflict in the Crimea are also credited with being a cause of reforms made to the British military system. This 1865... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Journal Kept During the Russian War: From the Departure of the Army from England in April 1854 to the Fall of Sebastopol (Paperback)

Frances Isabella Duberly (1829-1902) accompanied her officer husband to the Crimea as the only woman on the front line. Her letters home to her sister highlighting the incompetence and negligence of the generals and describing the appalling conditions... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: The Conquest of Scinde (Paperback)

Written by military historian Major-General William Napier (1785-1860) and published in 1845 this book describes the conquest of the Indian territory of Scinde (Sindh) and includes a biographical sketch of Major-General Sir Charles Napier (1782-1853)... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: A British Rifle Man (Paperback)

Originally published in 1899 these writings by George Simmons (1785-1858) complement the work of other officers who served in the famous 95th Rifles between 1809 and 1815. Extremely descriptive and informative the book covers all of the major battles... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: The Spirit of the Modern System of War (Paperback)

Dietrich Heinrich von Bülow (1757-1807) served for sixteen years in the Prussian army but for the remainder of his life lived a varied existence as a theatrical manager preacher writer businessman debtor and finally prisoner. It was not until after... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan 1841-2 (Paperback)

Lady Sale (née Florentia Wynch 1790-1853) became an instant heroine when her journal of the disastrous events in Afghanistan in 1841-2 was published in 1843. The wife of Sir Robert Sale second-in-command of the British forces she was taken hostage... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: The Great War with Russia (Paperback)

The journalist William Howard Russell (1820-1907) is sometimes regarded as being the first war correspondent and his reports from the conflict in the Crimea are also credited with being a cause of reforms in the British military system. This account of... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Adventures in the Rifle Brigade in the Peninsula France and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 (Paperback)

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade is probably the best-known and most popular of the many memoirs written by the men who served under Wellington in the Peninsular War and Waterloo Campaign. The author John Kincaid (1787-1862) served as an officer in what... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Imperial Defence (Paperback)

The liberal Radical MP Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843-1911) campaigned for (among many other causes) votes for women and labourers legalisation of trade unions and universal education. His republican sentiments damaged his political reputation and... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Lord Amherst and the British Advance Eastwards to Burma (Paperback)

In 1823 after relatively undistinguished diplomatic missions to Sicily and China Lord Amherst (1773-1857) was appointed Governor-general of Bengal a compromise candidate following Canning s sudden withdrawal to become foreign secretary. Arriving in... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Airships in Peace and War: Being the Second Edition of Aerial Warfare (Paperback)

In 1908 the motoring journalist R. P. Hearne published Aerial Warfare the first book on the subject to reach an audience beyond military strategists. Enormous advances in aviation resulted in the publication of this substantially revised edition in... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Reminiscences of the Burmese War in 1824-5-6 (Paperback)

This first-hand account of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-6) was written by Captain Frederick Doveton of the Royal Madras Fusiliers and published in 1852. Intending to feed the contemporary British fascination with tales of Burma and its people... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: The Sailor s Word-Book (Paperback)

Admiral William Henry Smyth (1780-1865) went to sea at an early age becoming a sailor and surveyor with the East India Company and later moving to Mediterranean waters. A founding member of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830 he spent much of his... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: Heresies of Sea Power (Paperback)

An influential work on naval strategy The Influence of Sea Power on History (1890) by Alfred Mahan an American naval officer had been instrumental in reshaping military tactics in navies all around the world. Its central idea was that a nation s... more

Cambridge Library Collection - The Nautical Magazine: The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1868 (Paperback)

The Nautical Magazine first appeared in 1832 and was published monthly well into the twenty-first century. It covers a wide range of subjects including navigation meteorology technology and safety. An important resource for maritime historians it also... more

Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian His: The Closing Events of the Campaign in China (Paperback)

An 1843 first-hand account from the close of the First Opium War by a British naval officer serving in China. more

Cambridge Library Collection - North American History: Notes on the Mineralogy Government and Condition of the British West India Islands and North-American Maritime Colonies (Paperback)

The most renowned naval officer of the mid-nineteenth century Thomas Cochrane Tenth Earl of Dundonald (1775-1860) served in wars against Spain and France retiring as an admiral in the Royal Navy. He was also an M.P. vociferously calling for naval... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration: Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara: Volume 1: Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Yea

Joined by seven eminent natural scientists including Karl von Scherzer (1821-1903) the Austrian naval expedition of 1857-9 was remarkable for its globe-spanning scale. During the course of the voyage the naturalists collected an abundance of samples... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration: Journal of HMS Enterprise on the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin s Ships by Behring Strait 1850-55 (Paperback)

Published posthumously in 1889 this journal records the 1850-5 expedition undertaken by naval officer and navigator Sir Richard Collinson (1811-83) to attempt to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin s expedition by entering the hypothetical... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration: The Discovery of the North-West Passage by HMS Investigator 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 (Paperback)

By the middle of the nineteenth century the North-West Passage a trade route from the Atlantic to the Pacific had been sought for centuries without success. The Franklin expedition of 1845 became the latest victim and Irish naval officer Sir Robert... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration: A Voyage of Discovery Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty in His Majesty s Ships Isabella and Alexander (Paperback)

Sir John Ross (1777-1856) was a Scottish naval officer and Arctic explorer. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of nine and distinguished himself during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1818 Ross was assigned to H.M.S. Isabella and commissioned to search for... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration: Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Performed in the Years 1819-20 ... Under the Orders of

William Edward Parry (1790-1855) spent the early part of his naval career protecting the whale fisheries of Spitzbergen. He was later appointed to several Arctic expeditions including three in search of the North-West Passage. This 1821 publication... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Technology: A Treatise on Navigation by Steam (Paperback)

Following distinguished service during the Napoleonic Wars the Scottish naval officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Ross (1777-1856) embarked on an abortive expedition to discover the North-West Passage. The existence of the Croker mountains which he... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration: The Royal Geographical Society and the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76 (Paperback)

The enthusiasm of Sir Clements R. Markham (1830-1916) for travel and exploration started early and took him around the world. Originally a naval officer he was later responsible for organising the geographical mapping of much of India and brought the... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration: The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery Performed in His Majesty s Vessel the Lady Nelson ... in the Years 1800 1801 and 1802 to New South Wales

In 1800-2 the naval officer James Grant (1772-1833) sailed to Australia on board the Lady Nelson a surveying ship that was the first in England to be built on the sliding-keel principle. In this 1803 publication Grant assesses the merits of the design... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration: Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara: Volume 2: Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Yea

Joined by seven eminent natural scientists including Karl von Scherzer (1821-1903) the Austrian naval expedition of 1857-9 was remarkable for its globe-spanning scale. During the course of the voyage the naturalists collected an abundance of samples... more

Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania: An Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass s Strait on the South Coast of New South Wales (Paperback)

James Tuckey (1776-1816) was a naval officer who was appointed first lieutenant on H.M.S. Calcutta. In 1802 the ship was given orders to sail to New South Wales Australia to survey the harbour at Port Phillip and to establish a colony. The Calcutta... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asi: Journal of a Residence in India (Paperback)

The daughter of a naval officer Maria Graham (1785-1842) later Lady Callcott combined her passion for travel with a diligent attention to scholarship and self-improvement. In 1808 the talented linguist and artist sailed for India with her family. She... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration: Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea During 1875-6 in Hm Ships Alert and Discovery 2 Volume Set: With Notes on the Natural History (Other)

The British Vice-Admiral and Arctic explorer Sir George Nares (1831-1915) received several honours for his contributions to science including a fellowship of the Royal Society. He attended the Royal Naval School New Cross before joining the service in... more