Adventures Of An Aide De Camp Or A Campaign In Calabria Vol 1 Of 3 Classic Reprint

Author : James Grant
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ISBN 13 : 9781331252757
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Adventures of an Aide-De-Camp (Classic Reprint) written by James Grant and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Adventures of an Aide-De-Camp On the evening of the last day of June, 1806, the transport? which had brought our troops from Sicily anchored on the Italian coast, in the Bay of St. Eufemio, a little to the southward of a town of that name. The British forces consisted of H. M. 27th, 58th, 78th, and 81st regiments of the line, the provisional light infantry and grenadier battalions, the Corsican Rangers, Royal Sicilian Volunteers, and the regiment of Sir Louis de Watte-ville, &c., the whole being commanded by Major-General Sir John Stuart, to whose personal staff I had the honour to be attached. This small body of troops, which mustered in all only 4,795 rank and file, was destined by our ministry to support the Ncapolitans, who in many places had taken up arms against the usurper Joseph Buonaparte, and to assist in expelling from Italy the soldiers of his brother. Ferdinand, king of Naples, after being an abject vassal of Napoleon, had allowed a body of British and Russian soldiers to land on his territories without resistance. This expedition failed; he was deserted by the celebrated Cardinal Ruffo, who became a Buonapartist; and as the French emperor wanted a crown for his brother Joseph, he proclaimed that "the Neapolitan dynasty had ceased to reign" - that the race of Parma were no longer kings in Lower Italy - and in January, 1806, his legions crossed the frontiers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.