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Albuera Eyewitness

Author : Guy Dempsey
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1399066447
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Albuera Eyewitness written by Guy Dempsey and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2023-07-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War’s most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march of the French field marshal Soult, who was trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, twelve miles to the north. However, after suffering losses of up to 7,000 men during the fighting, Wellington declared that, ‘Another such battle will ruin us’. One British regiment, the 57th Foot, suffered casualties of more than 50 per cent. Similarly, the French fought with enormous tenacity, and sustained almost equally heavy losses. The stories from those who fought in the battle on both sides make for both chilling and inspiring reading. These contemporaneous accounts include letters, diaries, official correspondence, army records, maps, newspaper reports and memoirs totaling over 100 contemporary accounts of the battle. They range from the comprehensive after-action reports of the British, Portuguese, Spanish and French commanders to casualty and prisoner lists and to recollections of individual soldiers from all the combatant armies. The purpose of this book is to tell the story of the battle exclusively by way of these primary sources, with English translations for foreign language sources, along with, in each case, a commentary identifying the source and its context. The heart of the work will be a vast number of first-hand accounts providing astonishing details of the intense fighting including the heroism of the Spanish troops, the massacre of Colborne’s brigade by Polish lancers, Beresford’s near-fatal indecisiveness, and the heroic charge of the Fusilier brigade. This presentation allows readers avid for detailed historical information to draw their own conclusions about how the events of the battle unfolded.

Voices from the Peninsula

Author : Ian Fletcher
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1473884799
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Peninsula written by Ian Fletcher and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peninsular War was one of the most successful campaigns ever fought by the British Army. Between 1808, when British troops landed in Portugal, and 1814, when Wellington's Army advanced into the south of France, British soldiers were involved in countless battles and sieges against Napoleon's vaunted French veterans. Drawing on rare letters, diaries and memoirs, Ian Fletcher presents a superb insight into the daily lives of British soldiers in this momentous period and evokes such key battles and sieges as Vimiero, Talavera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria and San Sebastian. Ian Fletcher's skillful compilation of accounts, placed in context by important background detail, make this the story of the Peninsular War in the words of the men who marched, fought and triumphed with Wellington. Although there have been many accounts of soldiering in Wellington's army, Voices from the Peninsula throws new light on the experience of Napoleonic warfare and brings to life what Wellington called 'the finest military machine in existence'.

The International Military Encyclopedia: Albuera, Battle of-Amenophis I

Author : Norman Tobias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Military Encyclopedia: Albuera, Battle of-Amenophis I written by Norman Tobias and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Peninsular Eyewitnesses

Author : Charles Esdaile
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844151913
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Peninsular Eyewitnesses written by Charles Esdaile and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about the British struggle against Napoleon in the Peninsula. A few recent studies have given a broader view of the ebb and flow of a long war that had a shattering impact on Spain and Portugal and marked the history of all the nations involved. But none of these books has concentrated on how these momentous events were perceived and understood by the people who experienced them. Charles Esdaile has brought together a vivid selection of contemporary accounts of every aspect of the war to create a panoramic yet minutely detailed picture of those years of turmoil. The story is told through memoirs, letters and eyewitness testimony from all sides. Instead of generals and statesmen, we mostly hear from less-well-known figures - junior officers and ordinary soldiers and civilians who recorded their immediate experience of the conflict.

Eyewitness to War

Author : Antony Bird
Publisher : Summersdale Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyewitness to War written by Antony Bird and published by Summersdale Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of prose and verse from those who have witnessed the intensity of war at first hand. Beginning with Elizabeth I's speech to her soldiers at Tilbury, and ending with the devastation surrounding the overthrow of Saddam Hussain's Iraqi dictatorship, this work introduces each piece by an analysis of the story behind the words.

Eyewitness to Trafalgar

Author : Thomas Huskisson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Eyewitness to Trafalgar written by Thomas Huskisson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Huskisson's recollections of his first eight years in the Royal Navy from 1800-1808.

Eyewitness to the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo

Author : James Hamilton Stanhope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyewitness to the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo written by James Hamilton Stanhope and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journals of the Honourable James Stanhope are among the most remarkable eyewitness accounts of the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, and yet they have never been published before. The long fight against the French in Portugal and Spain, the campaign in Holland, then the Battle of Waterloo - James Stanhope lived through all these extraordinary events and recorded them in vivid detail. Stanhope served as an aide de camp to the major commanders of the day - Wellington, General Graham, Lord Paget, the Duke of York among them. And he described his experiences and observations in a lucid and candid prose that makes his journals of great historical value and of compelling interest to us today. His writing gives a graphic inside view of the military and political situation of the time as it was perceived at the top levels of the British army, and he depicts the daily experience of campaigning during the Napoleonic Wars in an unforgettable way.

Barnes's School History of the United States

Author : Joel Dorman Steele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barnes's School History of the United States written by Joel Dorman Steele and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fighting the British

Author : Bernard Wilkin
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473880831
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Fighting the British written by Bernard Wilkin and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British army during the Napoleonic Wars is often studied using English sources and the British view of their French opponents has been covered in exhaustive detail. However, the French view of the British has been less often studied and is frequently misunderstood. This book, based on hundreds of letters, memoirs, and reports of French officers and soldiers of the Napoleonic armies, adds to the existing literature by exploring the British army from the French side of the battle line.Each chapter looks at a specific campaign involving the French and the British. Extensive quotes from the French soldiers who were there are complemented by detailed notes describing the context of the war and the career of the eyewitness.Throughout the emphasis is on the voices of the lower ranks, the conscripts and the noncommissioned and junior officers. They describe in their own words the full range of warfare during the period not only land battles but battles at sea, including the Nile and Trafalgar and accounts of captivity in England are included too.This original and revealing material gives a fascinating insight into the attitudes and concerns of the French soldiers of the period and their views about their British enemy.

Albuera 1811

Author : Guy Dempsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848324992
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Albuera 1811 written by Guy Dempsey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the Battle of Albuera. Supported by detailed maps, battalion-level orders of battle and uniform information of the British, Portuguese, Spanish, and French.

Supreme Court Reports, Annotated

Author : Philippines. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supreme Court Reports, Annotated written by Philippines. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Living Age

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

French Guardsman vs Russian Jaeger

Author : Laurence Spring
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472806115
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book French Guardsman vs Russian Jaeger written by Laurence Spring and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Jaeger regiments and Napoleon's Young Guard clashed repeatedly during the campaigns of 1812–14. The Russian Jaeger were light infantry who gained enormous experience and prestige during the struggle to rid Europe of Napoleon's armies, while the Young Guard was expanded to become the main strike force of the French field armies. In appalling winter conditions in 1812, the Young Guard turned to confront their opponents, including Jaeger forces, at Krasnyi. In the face of constant bombardment, Young Guard regiments held off the Russians, covering the retreat of large parts of Napoleon's forces. They clashed again at Leipzig in 1813 and then again in the bitter cold at Craonne in 1814, where horrendous casualties finally told on the newly formed Young Guard units pitched into an attack upon Russian Jaeger regiments. Putting the reader in the shoes of the ordinary soldiers of both sides, this absorbing book traces the evolving trial of strength between Russia's Jaeger arm and France's Young Guardsmen at the height of the Napoleonic Wars.

The Cornhill Magazine

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Cornhill Magazine written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Evidence

Author : Hereford Brooke George
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Historical Evidence written by Hereford Brooke George and published by Oxford, Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1909 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charge!

Author : Digby Smith
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784380008
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Charge! written by Digby Smith and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading voices on national-security issues in the US Congress demonstrates how words have been sharp and powerful weapons of victory in this compilation of great military speeches that helped turn the tide of history. Congressman Israel has included speeches that have motivated and mobilized, challenged and comforted. Some were blurted in the heat of combat, others carefully written in places far removed from the brutality of the battlefield, but all will inspire readers with the courage that moved people forward against all odds. This dramatic sweep of military history in the words of history's military leaders serves to reinforce the concept that the pen is mightier than the sword. Congressman Steve Israel represents New York's second district and is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and former member of the Armed Services Committee.

Ulster's Men

Author : Jane G.V. McGaughey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773587403
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Ulster's Men written by Jane G.V. McGaughey and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From violence in the trenches, to the struggle for independence and the eventual partition of the country, Ireland's cultural history is indelibly marked by the shadow of the Great War. As the war raged on, the nine-county province of Ulster - refashioned in 1921 as the six counties of Northern Ireland - was flooded with images of masculine military heroism. Soldiers, veterans, and paramilitaries became the most visible and potent incarnation of manhood on the streets of Belfast and Derry. In Ulster's Men, Jane McGaughey provides an historical glimpse into the unionist ideals of manliness in Northern Ireland, delving into the power dynamics of political propaganda, military service, fraternal societies, and paramilitary violence. Drawing upon depictions of men found in war diaries, police reports, government documents, and the popular press, McGaughey presents unionist masculinities as far more than the monolithic stereotype of dour austerity and misplaced loyalty. An exploration of the history of gender representation through the mirror of Northern Ireland's tortuous past, Ulster's Men weaves together images of Edwardian heroism, imperial patriotism, the fellowship of men in uniform, and the chaotic hostilities of war.