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Generals --- Forrest, Nathan Bedford, --- Forrest, Nathaniel Bedford, --- Forrest, Bedford, --- Military leadership. --- United States --- History --- Campaigns. --- Cavalry operations.
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Before the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy in June 1944, their aerial reconnaissance discovered signs of German defenses on the {circ}Iles St. Marcouf. From these two coastal islands, German artillery could bombard the 4th US Infantry Division and repulse a crucial thrust of Operation Overlord. With the fate of the war on the line, the 4th Mechanized Cavalry Group navigated the islands' minefields and reported no trace of German soldiers. Their rapid and accurate intelligence gave the Allies the necessary time and concentration of forces for the D-Day invasion to succeed. In Sabers through the Reich, William Stuart Nance provides the first comprehensive operational history of American corps cavalry in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during World War II. The corps cavalry had a substantive and direct impact on Allied success in almost every campaign, serving as offensive guards for armies across Europe and conducting reconnaissance, economy of force, and security missions, as well as prisoner of war rescues. From D-Day and Operation Cobra to the Battle of the Bulge and the drive to the Rhine, these groups had the mobility, flexibility, and firepower to move quickly across the battlefield, enabling them to aid communications and intelligence gathering and reducing the Clausewitzian friction of war.
Mechanization, Military --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Mechanized forces --- Mechanized warfare --- Warfare, Mechanized --- Military art and science --- Motorization, Military --- History. --- Tank warfare. --- Cavalry operations. --- United States. --- U.S. Army --- US Army --- History --- Armored troops
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This volume represents the first dedicated study of the British Yeomanry Cavalry, delving into the institution’s history from the cessation of hostilities with France in 1815 through to the eve of the First World War in 1914. This social history explores the Yeomanry’s composition and place within British society, as well as its controversial role in policing before and after Peterloo, and its unique contribution to the war in South Africa. Overturning or challenging many enduring myths and accepted truths, this book breaks new ground not just in our understanding of the Yeomanry, but the wider amateur military tradition.
Great Britain. --- Cavalry --- History. --- Yeomen --- Angliǐskai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ --- Tsava ha-Briṭi --- British Army --- בריטניה. --- צבא הבריטי --- England and Wales. --- Great Britain-History. --- Military history. --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Social history. --- Civilization-History. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- History of Military. --- History of Modern Europe. --- Social History. --- Cultural History. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Military historiography --- Military history --- Wars --- Historiography --- Naval history --- Great Britain—History. --- Europe—History—1492-. --- Civilization—History.
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