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. 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 warThe 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
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi B. Bandinel
Author: Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi
Author: Bulkeley BandinelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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.