Author: Hugh Wodehouse PearsePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
History of the 31st Foot Huntingdonshire Regt., 70th Foot Surrey Regt
Author: Hugh Wodehouse PearsePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
History of the 31st Foot Huntingdonshire Regt., 70th Foot Surrey Regt
Author: Hugh Wodehouse PearsePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
History of the 31st Foot Huntingdonshire Regt., 70th Foot Surrey Regt., Subsequently 1st & 2nd Battalions the East Surrey Regiment: 1914-1917
Author: Hugh Wodehouse PearseHistory of the 31st Foot Huntingdonshire Regt., 70th Foot Surrey Regt., Subsequently 1st & 2nd Battalions the East Surrey Regiment: 1917-1919
Author: Hugh Wodehouse PearsePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
History of the 31st Foot, Huntingdonshire Regt. 70th Foot, Surrey Regt., Subsequentley 1st & 2nd Battalions the East Surrey Regiment. 1702-1914.
Author: Dso Colonel Hugh W. PearsePublisher:
ISBN: 9781847341006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Regiment which became the 1st and 2nd Battalions East Surreys began life in 1702 during the expansion of the British Army to fight Louis XIV s expansionist France in the reigns of King William III and Queen Anne. Originally the 31st Foot (Huntingdonshire Regiment) and the 70th Foot (Surrey Regiment), the units took part in the 1704-5 siege of Gibraltar in the Seven Years War; the battle of Dettingen - the last action in which a reigning English monarch (George II) fought; and the attack on the French Caribbean island of Martinique during the French Revolutionary wars. The regiment played a prominent part in the Peninsular War, fighting in the battles of Talavera, Albuhera, Vittoria, the Pyrenees and Nivelle. It fought in the siege of Sebastopol in the Crimean War, the Maori wars in New Zealand, and the Afghan War of 1879-9. It was deployed in South Africa in the Boer War, being involved in the relief of Ladysmith. This is a complete illustrated history of the regiment s role in all these conflicts, that was first published in 1914 on the eve of the Great War.
A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army
Author: Arthur S. WhitePublisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 178150539X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This is one of the most valuable books in the armoury of the serious student of British Military history. It is a new and revised edition of Arthur White's much sought-after bibliography of regimental, battalion and other histories of all regiments and Corps that have ever existed in the British Army. This new edition includes an enlarged addendum to that given in the 1988 reprint. It is, quite simply, indispensible.
Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibrarySubject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Albuera Eyewitness
Author: Guy DempseyPublisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1399066447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War’s most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march of the French field marshal Soult, who was trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, twelve miles to the north. However, after suffering losses of up to 7,000 men during the fighting, Wellington declared that, ‘Another such battle will ruin us’. One British regiment, the 57th Foot, suffered casualties of more than 50 per cent. Similarly, the French fought with enormous tenacity, and sustained almost equally heavy losses. The stories from those who fought in the battle on both sides make for both chilling and inspiring reading. These contemporaneous accounts include letters, diaries, official correspondence, army records, maps, newspaper reports and memoirs totaling over 100 contemporary accounts of the battle. They range from the comprehensive after-action reports of the British, Portuguese, Spanish and French commanders to casualty and prisoner lists and to recollections of individual soldiers from all the combatant armies. The purpose of this book is to tell the story of the battle exclusively by way of these primary sources, with English translations for foreign language sources, along with, in each case, a commentary identifying the source and its context. The heart of the work will be a vast number of first-hand accounts providing astonishing details of the intense fighting including the heroism of the Spanish troops, the massacre of Colborne’s brigade by Polish lancers, Beresford’s near-fatal indecisiveness, and the heroic charge of the Fusilier brigade. This presentation allows readers avid for detailed historical information to draw their own conclusions about how the events of the battle unfolded.