Author: Philip Henry StanhopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington
Author: Philip Henry StanhopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Wellington: The Iron Duke (Text Only)
Author: Richard HolmesPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007383495
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In this compelling book, Richard Holmes tells the exhilarating story of the Duke of Wellington, Britain's greatest ever soldier.
A catalogue of the books belonging to the Library company of Philadelphia
Author: Library company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Sciences and arts
Author: A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: A General Catalogue of Books in Every Department of Literature for Public School Libraries in Upper Canada
Author: Publisher: Department of Public Instruction for Upper Canada by Lovell & Gibson
ISBN:
Category : School libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Wellington's Wars
Author: Huw J. DaviesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300165404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate--and controversial--new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career. Unlike his nemesis Napoleon, Wellington was by no means a man of innate military talent, Huw J. Davies argues. Instead, the key to Wellington's military success was an exceptionally keen understanding of the relationship between politics and war.Drawing on extensive primary research, Davies discusses Wellington's military apprenticeship in India, where he learned through mistakes as well as successes how to plan campaigns, organize and use intelligence, and negotiate with allies. In India Wellington encountered the constant political machinations of indigenous powers, and it was there that he apprenticed in the crucial skill of balancing conflicting political priorities. In later campaigns and battles, including the Peninsular War and Waterloo, Wellington's genius for strategy, operations, and tactics emerged. For his success in the art of war, he came to rely on his art as a politician and tactician. This strikingly original book shows how Wellington made even unlikely victories possible--with a well-honed political brilliance that underpinned all of his military achievements.
Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: S-Zypaeus. 1878
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jurisprudence
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Wellington
Author: Christopher HibbertPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0586091092
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This single volume study of Wellington's life and times is based on modern research. Wellington achieved fame as a soldier fighting the Mahratta in India. His later brilliant generalship fighting the French in Spain was rewarded by a dukedom and a grant from the house of Commons which would today be worth some u8 million. After his defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo he embarked on his second career as a politician. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the army for life, became Prime Minister in 1827 and a byword for High Toryism while presiding over the emancipation of Roman Catholics and the formation of the country's first police force. Unhappily married, he had several mistresses and many intimate friendships with women."