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100 1 $aPerry, James M.$q(James Moorhead)
245 10 $aArrogant armies :$bgreat military disasters and the generals behind them /$cJames M. Perry.
260 $aEdison, New Jersey :$bCastle Books,$c2005.
300 $avi, 314 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: New York : John Wiley, c1996.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 303-308) and index.
505 0 $aGeneral Edward Braddock and the French and Indian War (1754-1763) -- Brigadier General Josiah Harmar and Major General Arthur St. Clair and the Indian Wars on the Northwest Frontier (1790-1791) -- British and French Generals and their disastrous efforts to restore slavery to Haiti (1791-1804) -- General Charles MacCarthy and the First Ashanti War (1824) -- Major General William George Keith Elphinstone and the First Afghan War (1839-1842) -- Major General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley and the First Boer War (1880-1881) -- Major General Charles "Chinese" Gordon and the fall of Khartoum (1884-1885) -- General Oreste Baratieri and the First Ethiopian War (1895-1896) -- Major General William R. Shafter and the Spanish-American War (1898) -- Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend and the Mesopotamian Campaign in World War I (1915-1916) -- Major General Manuel Fernandez Silvestre and the Riffian Rebellion in Morocco (1921-1926) -- Conclusion: American mini-disaster in Somalia (1993)
650 0 $aMilitary history, Modern.
650 0 $aDisasters.
650 0 $aCommand of troops.
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