Military History (Classic Reprint): Lectures Delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge

Excerpt from Military History: Lectures Delivered at Trinity College, CambridgeHere is little in these lectures, or at any rate in three out of four of them, which I have not written at greater length in other volumes. I there fore publish them unwillingly, and in deference only to the wishes of some of my audience, whose good opinion I greatly value, and whose kindly sympathy I shall never forget. If this little volume should set but one student thinking seriously as to the meaning of military history, its object will be fully ao complished. The spelling of Indian names has been, as usual, a stumbling-block. No doubt I shall be asked why I have used the form N arbada for the more familiar N erbuddha, and yet written H yder Ali instead of Haidar Ali. I can only say that when the form Kalkdta (or whatever may be the Hunterian spelling) is substituted for Calcutta, I shall be prepared to plead guilty to inconsistency. J. W. F.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.