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The Royal Armouries
 The Naval & Military Press has access to the libraries and collections housed within its three sites. These have proved to be a rich source of material for our publishing programme. The Royal Armouries houses the British national collection of arms and armour. It is the oldest museum in the United Kingdom and one of the oldest museums in the world. The collection is split across three sites:
* The Royal Armouries Museum (Leeds) in Leeds
* HM Tower of London (London)
* Fort Nelson (Portsmouth).
The collection is as old as the Tower of London, but was not regularly opened to the public until the reign of Charles II in 1660. From the 15th century (and possibly earlier) distinguished visitors were allowed access to the Royal Armouries in the Tower. From the reign of Elizabeth I, a greater range of visitors was permitted to view a collection made up almost entirely of items from the reign of Henry VIII.
Collections now include the Spanish Armoury, which contains instruments of torture and punishment, and the Line of Kings, mounted figures representing English monarchs. The collections contain many trophy weapons from the height of the British Empire.
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Hand Grenades: A Handbook on Rifle and Hand Grenades. 1917
Product Code: 10773
Written by a serving officer, this handbook aims to give a complete knowledge of grenades in use during the Great War. Describing the use and effects of grenades in clear terms, the author aims to give the reader a quick grasp of grenades and the tactics involved in their employment. Chapter subj...
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The Armament Of Cavalry
Product Code: 10771
A concise personal account of cavalry weapons composed in 1875 by Lieutenant G. H Elliott, of the 3rd Bengal Cavalry, Indian Army. The fruit of the author’s clearly wide and discursive reading, the book ranges from Xenophon’s treaty on cavalry in the ancient world up to the recent Franco-Prussian...
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Infantry Sword Exercise. 1895.
Product Code: 10767
An 1895 revision of the standard instruction booklet for swordsmanship in the British army. The system of swordsmanship followed is that method developed by the maestro Il Cavaliere Ferdinando Masiello of Florence; and there are line drawing illustrations showing not just the position of the bod...
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Rifle Volunteers
How to Organize and Drill Them, 1859
Product Code: 10765
Published in 1859, when the rifle was replacing the musket as the standard infantry weapon, this guide was written by a respected military expert who himself was a First Lieutenant in the Victoria RIfles, one of the many volunteer units that sprang up in the mid-Victorian period. Written in a p...
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Instructions for the Carbine and PIstol Exercises for the Cavalry 1819
Product Code: 10759
Written only three years after Waterloo brought an end to the Napoleonic Wars, these official instructions for firearms use by the cavalry, takes military horsemanship from the era of the sword and lance into that of guns. Details carbine firing on foot; as well as the priming, loading and firing...
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Handbook of the Mexican Army, 1906
Product Code: 10739
Comprehensive British War Office report on the organisation of the Mexican army as it approached a decade of civil war and revolution.
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