Description:This hard to find book takes up the story with the New Model Army during the time of Cromwell, where the tactics made a significant change and ends with a chapter on the South African Boer War and the lead up to the First World War. Between these periods there is around 300 years of history with numerous battles and conflicts. The author gives an account of some of these conflicts covering the training and the tactics and each which includes, Dettingen, Blenheim, Salamanca, Balaclava, Waterloo and many others explaining the cavalry’s developments until its eventual mechanisation.