Across more than 17,000 articles, this compilation defines ancient and modern military terms, recounts battles from antiquity to the nineteenth century, describes warlike peoples from the Moors to the North American tribes, and explains the language of heraldry, with the Articles of War appended. Entries on outworks like the half-moon sit beside sieges such as the British capture of Multan in 1849.
Invaluable for readers of military history; its accounts of Native American peoples reflect the attitudes of its nineteenth-century American compiler. Download the free EPUB.