by Belloc · Cluster: History · Catholicism · Europe
Abstract
A study of six battles in which British arms took part — Blenheim, Crecy, Tourcoing, Waterloo, Malplaquet and Poitiers — each analysed as an incident within its campaign and its governing political object. Belloc insists that military success can be measured only in terms of civil policy, and reconstructs the terrain, manoeuvre and action of each engagement. A work of narrative military history stretching from the Hundred Years’ War to Napoleon.
Capitoli / Chapters
- Part 6: THE ACTION
- Part 2: THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE ACTION
- Part 5: THE ASPECT OF THESE BATTLES
- Part 6: THE RESULTS OF THE BATTLE
- Part 1: THE POLITICAL OBJECTIVE
- Part 1: THE POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCE
- Part 2: THE GENERAL MILITARY SITUATION
- Part 4: THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE BATTLE
- Part 5: THE TERRAIN
- Part 6: THE RESULTS OF THE BATTLE
Connections
Forms & Genres: History, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: War and its Cost, Heroism, Nationalism and Patriotism, Power and Corruption, Courage Motifs: Battlefield (2), Swords and Weapons, Flags and Banners Historical References: Hundred Years’ War, Napoleonic Wars the Navy, French Revolution, British Empire Settings: Battlefield, France, Military Camp, Europe Characters: Napoleon, Duke of Wellington, Edward the Black Prince, Louis XIV Archetypes: Hero, Tragic Hero Topoi: Last Stand, War as Glory