The History of The Royal Artillery

Gun positions, lines of advance and the ground armies had to cross are the business of the maps from The History of The Roya...

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Gun positions, lines of advance and the ground armies had to cross are the business of the maps from The History of The Royal Artillery, printed in 1937 for a regimental history associated with the Royal Artillery Institution at Woolwich. They explain campaigns in southern Africa, Sudan, Egypt, Afghanistan and Abyssinia, including Paardeberg, the Tugela, Omdurman, Tel el-Kebir and Magdala, with regional maps setting the scene for closer battle and siege plans. Drawn decades after the nineteenth-century actions they describe, they read the terrain with a gunner's eye for positions and physical obstacles, helping readers locate each episode in the regiment's narrative.

Gun positions, lines of advance and the ground armies had to cross are the business of the maps from The History of The Royal Artillery, printed in 1937 for a regimental history associated with the Royal Artillery Institution at Woolwich. They explain campaigns in southern Africa, Sudan, Egypt, Afghanistan and Abyssinia, including Paardeberg, the Tugela, Omdurman, Tel el-Kebir and Magdala, with regional maps setting the scene for closer battle and siege plans. Drawn decades after the nineteenth-century actions they describe, they read the terrain with a gunner's eye for positions and physical obstacles, helping readers locate each episode in the regiment's narrative.

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