Author: Robert Blakeney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Author: Robert Blakeney
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1781499756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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The Peninsular War was the first of Britain's many foreign conflicts in which increasing literacy produced a bumper crop of memoirs, not only by Generals and senior officers, but by ordinary rankers and subalterns too. This book is one of the very best. It's author, Robert Blakeney, enlisted in 1804 in the 28th regiment of Infantry as an Irish boy at the tender age of fifteen. As such, he was in at the beginning of the long war in the Iberian peninsular, and stuck through to the end, witnessing at first hand the changing fortunes of war. He was with Sir John Moore in his advance - and in his fatal retreat to Corunna. When Wellington took command, Blakeney served under him at the battles of Arroyo Molinos and the siege of Badajoz; crossed the Pyrenees and took part in one of the war’s final battles at Nivelle. Apart from his own experiences and adventures, Blakeney gives unvarnished pen portraits of many of the Iron Duke’s great subordinates, including Generals Picton, Paget and Hill. For all Napoelonic fans this charming memoir is a must.

Author: George Manville Fenn
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776590333
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Younger readers can get a first-hand look at the battlefield action of the Peninsular War in this historical action-adventure novel from George Manville Fenn. Young soldier Penton Gray sustains a serious wound, but displays admirable grace under fire by risking his own life to rescue an injured comrade. Will the pair safely make it back to their regiment?

Author: ROBERT. BLAKENEY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033348017
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Robert Blakeney
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789355753564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Robert Blakeney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789356144910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS A Boy In The Peninsular War: The Services, Adventures, And Experiences Of Robert Blakeney. An Autobiography, Edited By Julian Sturgis This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

Author: Robert Blakeney
Publisher: Echo Library
ISBN: 9781406887709
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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The Services, Adventures and Experiences of Robert Blakeney, Subaltern in the 28th Regiment. Blakeney (1789-1858) joined the army in 1804 aged 15 and this lively account of his fighting days during the Peninsula War and the friendships he made was edited by Julian Sturgis (1848-1904), a novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist married to Blakeney's granddaughter. Reprinted from the second impression of 1899.

Author: Fenn George Manville
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318864140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Author: George Herbert Ely
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Boys of the Light Brigade" (A Story of Spain and the Peninsular War) by George Herbert Ely, Charles James L'Estrange. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Robert Blakeney
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355755425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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