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- 008 030416s1996 nyu b 001 0 eng
- 020 __ |a 0471119768 (cloth)
- 050 00 |a D214 |b .P49 1996
- 050 00 |a D214 |b .P49 1996
- 100 1_ |a Perry, James M. |q (James Moorhead)
- 245 10 |a Arrogant armies : |b great military disasters and the generals behind them / |c James M. Perry.
- 260 __ |a New York : |b John Wiley, |c c1996.
- 300 __ |a vi, 314 p. ; |c 24 cm.
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-308) and index.
- 505 0_ |a General 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 |a Military history, Modern.
- 650 _0 |a Command of troops.
- 950 __ |a JHUL |b E19 |c P462