Author: LIMM ANDREWPublisher:
ISBN: 9781473874695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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WALCHEREN TO WATERLOO
Author: LIMM ANDREWPublisher:
ISBN: 9781473874695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Walcheren to Waterloo
Author: Andrew LimmPublisher:
ISBN: 9781473874701
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages :
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Walcheren to Waterloo
Author: Andrew LimmPublisher:
ISBN: 9781473874688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The military success achieved by the Duke of Wellington casts a long shadow over the history of the British army in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. The popular account of Britain's military record in the great struggle is chiefly one of glorious victories. But is the focus on Wellington's successes an appropriate way to understand the
The Waterloo Roll Call
Author: Charles DaltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Story of the Battle of Waterloo
Author: George Robert GleigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Wellington's Foot Guards at Waterloo
Author: Robert BurnhamPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526709880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
During the Waterloo Campaign, Wellington had only one division that was composed entirely of British infantry, the 1st Division. This consisted of two brigades of the most famous regiments of the British Army the three regiments of Guards.The exploits of the Guards at Waterloo have passed into legend. On that day, Wellington entrusted the most crucial part of his line to the men he knew would hold their position at all cost. That vital position was the Chteau d'Hougoumont, and those men were the Guards.As the great battle unfolded, the French threw more and more troops at the walls of Hougoumont, setting some of the Chteaus buildings on fire and almost forcing their way in through its northern gateway. Though almost an entire French corps was engaged in the struggle for Hougoumont, the detachment of the Guards valiantly resisted every attack.Then, as the battle reached its climax, Napoleon launched his Imperial Guard at the centre of Wellingtons line. Just as the French believed that victory was in their grasp, up stood the 1st Guards Brigade to deliver a devastating volley, followed by a ferocious bayonet charge from which the French never recovered.The experienced duo of Robert Burnham and Ron McGuigan have compiled the first comprehensive study of the Guards Division throughout the entire Waterloo campaign, from the initial deployment in Belgium to the Occupation of Paris. The book also includes an explanation of the organisation and composition of the two brigades and personal details of many of the Guards officers the men who saved the day at Waterloo.
The Battle of Waterloo
Author: John BoothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List
Author: A Soldier of the Seventy-First
Author: Joseph SinclairPublisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1783461527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
The authors sharp eye for the illuminating detail and the oddities of human behavior enabled him to present a picture of army life as graphic and revealing as any drawn by a private soldier during the Napoleonic Wars - Christopher HibbertThis remarkable memoir was first published in Edinburgh in 1819 and has withstood the test of time. One cannot improve on Sir Charles Omans description of the book as: the work of a man of superior education, who had enlisted in a moment of pique and humiliation to avoid facing at home the consequences of his own conceit and folly. The author wrote from the ranks, yet was so different in education and mental equipment from his comrades that he does not take their vices and habits for granted. The reader receives the narrative of an intelligent observer, describing the behavior of his regiment as it traveled the globe. His account covers Whitelocks disastrous South American adventure in 1806, the Peninsular War, the Walcheren Expedition and the Battle of Waterloo. For the first time, Joseph Sinclair has been unmasked as the author of the memoir, thanks to new research work by Stuart Reid.
From Charles the II to the Battle of Waterloo
Author: Charles Robert Leslie FletcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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