Author: John Wilson CrokerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
“The” Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker
Author: John Wilson CrokerThe Croker Papers
Author: John Wilson CrokerPublisher: New York, C. Scribner
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Correspomdence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker
Author: A Catalogue of a Choice Collection of Scarce and Valuable Books, Pamphlets, Manuscripts and Maps Relating to Central- and Southamerica, the West-India- and the Philippine Islands
Author: Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Wellington
Author: Rory MuirPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300198604
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
The leading Wellington historian’s fascinating reassessment of the Iron Duke’s most famous victory and his role in the turbulent politics after Waterloo. For Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, his momentous victory over Napoleon was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington’s achievements were far from over: he commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat in Lord Liverpool’s cabinet, and became prime minister in 1828. He later served as a senior minister in Peel’s government and remained commander-in-chief of the army for a decade until his death in 1852. In this richly detailed work, the second and concluding volume of Rory Muir’s definitive biography, the author offers a substantial reassessment of Wellington’s significance as a politician and a nuanced view of the private man behind the legend of the selfless hero. Muir presents new insights into Wellington’s determination to keep peace at home and abroad, achieved by maintaining good relations with the Continental powers and resisting radical agitation while granting political equality to the Catholics in Ireland rather than risk civil war. And countering one-dimensional pictures of Wellington as a national hero, Muir paints a portrait of a well-rounded man whose austere demeanor on the public stage belied his entertaining, gossipy, generous, and unpretentious private self. “[An] authoritative and enjoyable conclusion to a two-part biography.” —Lawrence James, Times (London) “Muir conveys the military, political, social and personal sides of Wellington’s career with equal brilliance. This will be the leading work on the subject for decades.” —Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon and Wellington: The Long Duel
The Croker Papers
Author: John Wilson CrokerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108044581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Published in 1884, Tory politician and writer J. W. Croker's papers are an important source of information on nineteenth-century political and literary history.
Dispatches, Correspondence and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duc of Wellington, K.G.
Author: Arthur Wellesley Duke of WellingtonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
The Croker papers, ed. by L.J. Jennings
Author: John Wilson CrokerJohn Wilson Croker
Author: Myron Franklin BrightfieldPublisher: London, Allen
ISBN:
Category : Politicians
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description