Bayonets to Lhasa
The British Invasion of Tibet
The British invasion of Tibet in 1904 is one of the strangest events in British imperial history. Conceived by Lord Curzon as a strategic move in the Great Game - that colossal struggle between Imperial Britain and Tsarist Russia for influence in Central Asia - the incursion was in fact ill-conceived and inspired by only the weakest of motivations. Led by the soldier, explorer and mystic, Francis Younghusband, the mission - doomed from the very beginning - became caught in political cross-fire and the distant and destructive machinations of China and Britain and ended in ignominy and disappointment for this idealistic adventurer. Peter Flemin…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85773-143-2
- EAN: 9780857731432
- Produktnummer: 22567665
- Verlag: I.B.Tauris
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'277 KB
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