Author: Arthur Wellesley Duke of WellingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington ... in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809 to 1814
Author: Arthur Wellesley Duke of WellingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington in Portugal, Spain and France from 1809 to 1814, and in the Low Countries and France 1815 and in France, Army of Occupation, from 1816 to 1818
Author: Arthur Wellesley of WellingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Storm and Sack
Author: Gavin DalyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108872808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
During the Peninsular War, Wellington's army stormed and sacked three French-held Spanish towns: Ciudad Rodrigo (1812), Badajoz (1812) and San Sebastian (1813). Storm and Sack is the first major study of British soldiers' violence and restraint towards enemy combatants and civilians in the siege warfare of the Napoleonic era. Using soldiers' letters, diaries and memoirs, Gavin Daly compares and contrasts military practices and attitudes across British sieges spanning three continents, from the Peninsular War in Spain to India and South America. He focuses on siege rituals and laws of war, and uncovering the cultural and emotional history of the storm and sack of towns. This book challenges conventional understandings of the place and nature of sieges in the Napoleonic Wars. It encourages a rethinking of the notorious reputations of the British sacks of this period and their place within the long-term history of customary laws of war and siege violence. Daly reveals a multifaceted story not only of rage, enmity, plunder and atrocity but also of mercy, honour, humanity and moral outrage.
The Peninsular War. Some Observations on the General Orders of ... the Duke of Wellington, in Portugal, Spain and France, from 1809 to 1814
Author: Arthur Wellesley Duke of WellingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Peninsular War. Some Observations on the General Orders of ... the Duke of Wellington, in Portugal, Spain and France, from 1809 to 1814. Second Edition
Author: Arthur Wellesley Duke of WellingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Peninsular war, some observations on the general orders of the duke of Wellington, in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809 to 1814
Author: Peninsular warCivilians and War in Europe, 1618-1815
Author: Erica ChartersPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846317118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the role of civilians in early modern warfare, from the Thirty Years War to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Drawing on works by scholars in art, literature, history, and political theory, the contributors to this volume explore the continuities and transformations in warfare over the course of two hundred years, examining topics central to civilian and war dynamics, including incarceration, cultures of plunder, billeting, and wartime atrocities, in addition to the larger legal practices and philosophical underpinnings of warfare and its aftermath. Showcasing the complex ways civilians were involved in war—not just as anguished sufferers, but as individuals who fought back, who profited, and who negotiated for their own needs—Civilians and War in Europe probes what it meant to be a civilian in countries deeply involved in conflict.
The British Soldier in the Peninsular War
Author: G. DalyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137323833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs.
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Peninsular and Waterloo General
Author: Marcus de la Poer BeresfordPublisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 139908321X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Denis Pack was one of a phalanx of senior Anglo-Irish officers who served with great distinction in the British army in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, earning a reputation as one of the Duke of Wellington’s most able brigade commanders. Despite his remarkable and varied military career, he hasn’t received the individual attention he deserves, but this omission has now been remedied by Marcus de la Poer Beresford’s full biography. Pack, who was born in 1774, served extensively in Europe as well as in Africa and South America. He was one of the few brigade commanders to serve first with the Portuguese army, and then with Wellington, in the Peninsula, at Quatre Bras, Waterloo and afterwards in the occupation of France. His life was cut short by an early death in 1823, which may have been the result of the many wounds he received in his thirty years as a soldier. This perceptive and meticulously researched study draws on previously unpublished material from archives in the United Kingdom, Portugal and Ireland. It complements other works on notable officers of the period, as Pack served with Cornwallis, Baird, Beresford, Whitelocke, Chatham, Picton, Henry Clinton, and others as well as Wellington. In addition it offers an absorbing portrait of Pack himself and gives the reader a fascinating insight into the many campaigns he took part in and the military life of his day.