Author: Henry MILBURNEPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A narrative of circumstances attending the retreat of the British Army under the command of the late ... Sir J. Moore. With a concise account of the memorable battle of Corunna, and subsequent embarkation of his Majesty's troops ... In a letter ... to ... Viscount Castlereagh, etc
Author: Henry MILBURNEA Narrative of Circumstances Attending the Retreat of the British Army Under the Command of the Late Lieut. Gen. Sir John Moore
Author: Henry MilburnePublisher:
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Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780–1835
Author: Neil RamseyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351885677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Ramsey shows, the military memoir achieved widespread acclaim and commercial success among the reading public of the late Romantic era. Ramsey assesses their influence in relation to Romantic culture's wider understanding of war writing, autobiography, and authorship and to the shifting relationships between the individual, the soldier, and the nation. The memoirs, Ramsey argues, participated in a sentimental response to the period's wars by transforming earlier, impersonal traditions of military memoirs into stories of the soldier's personal suffering. While the focus on suffering established in part a lasting strand of anti-war writing in memoirs by private soldiers, such stories also helped to foster a sympathetic bond between the soldier and the civilian that played an important role in developing ideas of a national war and functioned as a central component in a national commemoration of war.
British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon
Author: Graciela Iglesias RogersPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441135650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This is the first book-length examination of the involvement of British volunteers in the Spanish forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review
Author: Quarterly Review
Author: The Quarterly Review (London)
Author: Alphabetical Catalogue of the Navy Department Library
Author: United States. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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