BAYONET TO BARRAGE: WEAPONRY ON THE VICTORIAN BATTLEFIELD.
Code: E066
Price: £15.99
Category(s): New Books, Nineteenth Century,
228pp., 8 plates, P.B. 2025 reissue. In 1845, in the first Anglo-Sikh War, the outcome was decided by the bayonet; just over fifty years later, in the second Boer War, the combatants were many miles apart. How did this transformation come about, and what impact did it have on the experience of the soldiers of the period?