Author: Augustus Ferryman Mockler-FerrymanPublisher: Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Life of a Regimental Officer During the Great War, 1793-1815
Author: Augustus Ferryman Mockler-FerrymanPublisher: Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Writ in Water
Author: Sydney C. GrierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Clement of Alexandria
Author: John PatrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Bookman
Author: Wellington's Worst Scrape
Author: Carole DivallPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783378662
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
The disastrous retreat and near disintegration of Sir John Moores army on the road to Corunna in 1809 is traditionally regarded as the low point in the history of the British intervention in the Peninsular War. Yet under the Duke of Wellington, the British and their allies suffered defeats and retreats that tend to be overshadowed by the series of victories that eventually drove the French from Portugal and Spain. None of these setbacks was graver than the retreat that followed the disastrous failure of the siege of Burgos in 1812. It is this, less than glorious, phase of the Peninsular campaign that is the subject of Carole Divalls latest study of the British army of the Napoleonic Wars.By reconstructing events in close detail, and by bringing together [many] primary sources, she gives a vivid account of what happened and why. Wellington himself recognized the mistakes and miscalculations that led to the potentially catastrophic situation in which he placed his men. He described it as his worst scrape. Yet most of the letters, journals and memoirs that have survived praise the skill with which he saved Britain's only army from disaster. Carole Divall weaves together Wellingtons dispatches with the eyewitness testimony left by British and Portuguese officers and men, by civilians, and by the French. A fascinating, multi-layered impression emerges of the siege of Burgos itself and the sequence of maneuvers that preceded it. She describes in authentic detail the tense decision-making and the misjudgments that were made on the allied side and the headlong retreat that followed as the British fled from two French armies that threatened to trap and destroy them.Carole Divalls in-depth study of a pivotal and neglected episode in the Peninsular War gives a fascinating insight into the character of the fighting, at every level, and into the strengths and weaknesses of Wellingtons command.
Sir William Arrol
Author: Robert PurvisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Collected Poems
Author: Alfred NoyesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Tom, Vron
Author: E. M. Sneyd-KynnersleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Author: Maud Diver