Featured battle : Sluis

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 17 July 1794 - 24 August 1794

The Coalition troops had 110 guns to support their defence and they held out for nearly 40 days. A significant factor in the surrender was sickness of the Garrison. Reports say that on capitulation Coalition losses were 15 dead 32 wounded and 1,000 sick.

The Decline of Empires in South Asia

Heather A Campbell
This book covers quite a niche subject in the history of what became known as "The Great Game" between the British Empire and the Russian Empire in South Asia. It focuses on the problems of imperial control over primarily Afghanistan in the years 1919-1923, and how the conflicts between the Indian government, the India Office, and the Foreign Office in London. It uses as a comparison the approaches taken during those same years in Persia, and while it covers a number of viewpoints, it largely revolves around Lord Curzon, his strong personality, and the mistakes it argues that he made because of it.
I found this book to be fascinating, and extremely thoroughly researched (the notes pages and bibliography are approximately one third of the book) but it is really quite academic and probably not for a casual reader.
Pen & Sword Military, 2022