Author: North Ludlow BeamishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military uniforms
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
History of the King's German Legion
Author: North Ludlow BeamishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military uniforms
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Journal of an officer in the King's German legion
Author: King's German legionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
History of the King's German Legion
Author: North Ludlow BeamishPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108054218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Published between 1832 and 1837, this two-volume work covers the history of a famous military unit between 1803 and 1816.
Journal of an Officer in the King's German Legion
Author: History of the King's German Legion
Author: North Ludlow BeamishPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230286952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...continued to expose themselves with a degree of devotion beyond all praise. Among the most conspicuous was Frederick Lindau, a private of the second light battalion, who although bleeding profusely from two wounds in the head, stood firmly at the small door of the barn, and from thence defended the main entrance. Baring, seeing that the cloth about his head was not sufficient to stop the effusion of blood, repeatedly called upon him to go back; but Landau regardless of his wounds, as of a large bag of gold which he had taken from the enemy, and carried about his person, refused to stir from the spot, "saying: " He would be a scoundrel that deserted you, so long as his head is on his shoulders"! This gallant fellow was afterwards taken prisoner and lost 1815-his treasure. June. More than an hour was occupied in this second Appendix assault of the farm, and now the French, tired from their fruitless efforts, again fell back. The relief thus given to the Germans may be well imagined, but the anxiety of their commander was little diminished; every new attack served more and more to impress upon him the importance of the post, and more clearly to place before his eyes the deep responsibility of the command with which he had been entrusted. Placed with a small body of men in an isolated position, on the retaining of which the lives of his soldiers, --his own honour, --perhaps the safety of the whole army depended; and where he would, in all probability be called upon to make a decision involving all these considerations--major Baring, could not but feel a painful anxiety for the result, which none of the means at his disposal were adequate to remove. On counting the remaining cartridges he found that the men had not, on an average, more than from...
History of the King's German Legion
Author: North Ludlow BeamishPublisher:
ISBN: 9781139410755
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
In the King's German Legion
Author: Christian Freiherr von OmptedaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
History of the King's German Legion
Author: North Ludlow BeamishPublisher:
ISBN: 9781139410762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The Longest Afternoon
Author: Brendan SimmsPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465039944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
From the prizewinning author of Europe, a riveting account of the heroic Second Light Battalion, which held the line at Waterloo, defeating Napoleon and changing the course of history. In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe-Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, a crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. In The Longest Afternoon, Brendan Simms captures the chaos of Waterloo in a minute-by-minute account that reveals how these 400-odd riflemen successfully beat back wave after wave of French infantry. The battalion suffered terrible casualties, but their fighting spirit and refusal to retreat ultimately decided the most influential battle in European history.
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