Children at the Battle of Waterloo

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ISBN 13 : 9780957070714
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Children at the Battle of Waterloo by : Julia Tugendhat

Download or read book Children at the Battle of Waterloo written by Julia Tugendhat and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, re-written for teen and young adult readers, is an exhilarating hour-by-hour account of the Battle of Waterloo as experienced by some REAL youngsters who were on the battlefield. Fifteen-year-old Lord William Lennox attends the famous ball in Brussels on 15 June 1815 when Wellington learns that Napoleon's army has invaded Belgium, and he witnesses the start of the battle. A seventeen-year-old ensign fresh from England is terrified and bewildered by his first taste of battle. Two young German brothers find themselves on the battlefield by mistake. There is a French drummer boy proud to belong to Napoleon's army. And there is six-year-old Mary Adwicke, one of the children whose mothers marched behind their soldier husbands and encamped near the battlefield. All the glory and gore of the battle is vividly evoked and set in a clear context so that the events of the day are easy to follow. Children at the Battle of Waterloo is a fascinating introduction to the history of warfare, is soundly researched, original and written with warmth and humanity. Julia Tugendhat has written a number of therapeutic self-help books as well as 11 books for children under the name of Julia Dobson.

The Little Waterloo

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Publisher : Kate'Art Éditions
ISBN 13 : 287575064X
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis The Little Waterloo by : Catherine de Duve

Download or read book The Little Waterloo written by Catherine de Duve and published by Kate'Art Éditions. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo is coming up! Learn all there is to know about this famous battle with this must-have guide that both parents and children will love! Waterloo, June 19, 1815 ... It has rained all night ... What is Napoleon doing ? Who are the Allies ? Meet Wellington and Blücher ! What will happen at Hougoumont, Haie Sainte and Papelotte farms ? Imagine the cavalry charges, the blasts from the grand battery. The village of Plancenoit is on fire ! Where is Marshal Grouchy ? Who are forming "the last square" ? Will Wellington defeat his old enemy ? Relive in family Napoleon's last battle, hour by hour, with this interactive book to find out about history while having fun ABOUT THE COLLECTION Put yourself in the shoes of an artist or an explorer and learn all there is to know about art and history! Whether it is as a museum guide, a temporary exhibition catalog or a monograph, the books from the "Happy Museum" collection can be read while visiting a museum, an exhibition or simply at home. The concept is entertaining and interactive so that children can learn while having fun! You will find throughout the pages some games, observations, thoughts, creations, drawings and art history notions. Thanks to these activities, children will be able to assimilate technical and theoretical notions like “still life”, “watercolors” and “impressionism”, which are sometimes abstract and difficult to understand. From 4 years old and for the whole family (parents, grandparents and teachers). ABOUT THE AUTHOR Catherine de Duve is an art historian and a painter. She worked for the Royal museums of Belgium’s educational services and created teaching workshops at the Brussels Foundation for Architecture. In 2000, she launched her own publishing house with a brand new concept. Advised by the director of MAC (Grand Hornu), she created the international collection “Happy Museum”, dedicated to a young audience. Catherine de Duve is also published by RMN, Hatier and Alice editions, and works with dozens of international museum curators. Thanks to this ebook, the whole family will learn more about: • The village of Waterloo • Napoléon, Wellington, Ney and Blücher • The phases of the battle • The Lion of Waterloo

Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374300763
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)

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Book Synopsis Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo by : Brian Falkner

Download or read book Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo written by Brian Falkner and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the power to control the most terrifying animals in history fell into the hands of one of the most brilliant and ferocious military leaders of all time? Battlesaurus reimagines the 1815 Battle of Waterloo as something other than a crushing defeat for the French emperor Napoléon Bonaparte, when he unleashes a terrible secret weapon—giant carnivorous survivors from pre-history—on his unsuspecting British and Prussian adversaries. In this world, smaller “saurs” are an everyday danger in the forests of Europe, and the Americas are a forbidden zone roamed by the largest and most deadly animals ever to walk the earth. But in his quest for power, Napoléon has found a way to turn these giant dinosaurs into nineteenth-century weapons of mass destruction. Only Willem Verheyen, an outsider living in hiding in the tiny village of Gaillemarde, has the power to ruin the tyrant’s plans. And Napoléon will stop at nothing to find him. War is coming, and young Willem is no longer safe, for Gaillemarde is just a stone’s throw from the fields of Waterloo—fields which will soon run red with blood. Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo by Brian Falkner is the first in a thrilling alternate historical fantasy duology, which concludes with the sequel, Battlesaurus: Clash of Empires. “Part historical fiction, part dinosaur fantasy mash-up, this book will appeal to history buffs and dinosaur fanatics alike. The battle scenes between Napoléon's army and the British are depicted in incredible detail, making readers feel as if they are right in the midst of the fight . . . The first of a promising duology that readers will find thrilling and positively addicting.” —School Library Journal “This alternative history asks, what if Napoléon won the battle at Waterloo . . . The novel quickly ramps up to suspense, immersing the reader in the swiftly moving plot. Characters are very well drawn, capturing the reader's sympathy. With an ending wide open for a sequel, complete with a plot-thickening cliff-hanger, one can only hope that Falkner is a swift writer.” —Booklist

Children of the Market Place

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781484864524
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (645 download)

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Book Synopsis Children of the Market Place by : Edgar Lee Masters

Download or read book Children of the Market Place written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born in London on the eighteenth of June, 1815. The battle of Waterloo was being fought as I entered this world. Thousands were giving up their lives at the moment that life was being bestowed upon me. My father was in that great battle. Would he ever return? My mother was but eighteen years of age. Anxiety for his safety, the exhaustion of giving me life prostrated her delicate constitution. She died as I was being born. I have always kept her picture beside me. I have always been bound to her by a tender and mystical love. During all the years of my life my feeling for her could not have been more intense and personal if I had had the experience of daily association with her through boyhood and youth. What girlish wistfulness and sadness there are in her eyes! What a gentle smile is upon her lips, as if she would deny the deep foreboding of a spirit that peered into a perilous future! Her dark hair falls in rich strands over her forehead in an elfin and elegant disorder. Her slender throat rises gracefully from an unloosened collar. This picture was made from a drawing done by a friend of my father's four months before I was born. My old nurse told me that he was invalided from the war; that my father had asked him to make the drawing upon his return to London. Perhaps my father had ominous dreams of her ordeal soon to be. They pronounced me a fine boy. I was round faced, round bodied, well nourished. The nurse read my horoscope in coffee grounds. I was to become a notable figure in the world. My mother's people took me in charge, glad to give me a place in their household. Here I was when my father returned from the war, six months later. He had been wounded in the battle of Waterloo. He was still weak and ill. I was told these things by my grandmother in the succeeding years.

The Longest Afternoon

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Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465039944
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis The Longest Afternoon by : Brendan Simms

Download or read book The Longest Afternoon written by Brendan Simms and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Waterloo & Trafalgar

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ISBN 13 : 9781592701278
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Waterloo & Trafalgar by : Olivier Tallec

Download or read book Waterloo & Trafalgar written by Olivier Tallec and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays two soldiers separated by two walls who spy on each other day and night until one day they finally meet face-to-face.

The Waterloo Roll Call

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Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis The Waterloo Roll Call by : Charles Dalton

Download or read book The Waterloo Roll Call written by Charles Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Waterloo

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062312073
Total Pages : 245 pages
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Book Synopsis Waterloo by : Bernard Cornwell

Download or read book Waterloo written by Bernard Cornwell and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 Bestseller in the U.K. From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought—a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s last stand. On June 18, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days, the French army had beaten the Prussians at Ligny and fought the British to a standstill at Quatre-Bras. The Allies were in retreat. The little village north of where they turned to fight the French army was called Waterloo. The blood-soaked battle to which it gave its name would become a landmark in European history. In his first work of nonfiction, Bernard Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting chronicle of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon’s daring escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the three battlefields and their aftermath. Through quotes from the letters and diaries of Emperor Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, and the ordinary officers and soldiers, he brings to life how it actually felt to fight those famous battles—as well as the moments of amazing bravery on both sides that left the actual outcome hanging in the balance until the bitter end. Published to coincide with the battle’s bicentennial in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy—and of the final battle that determined the fate of nineteenth-century Europe.

Children's Catalog

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Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Children's Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.

The Battle of Waterloo Experience

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ISBN 13 : 9780233004471
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis The Battle of Waterloo Experience by : Peter Snow

Download or read book The Battle of Waterloo Experience written by Peter Snow and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Napoleon's defeat and exile on Elba in 1814, it looked as if his extraordinary military career had come to an end. But then the Emperor escaped and made a last stand, which climaxed on June 18, 1815, when almost 200,000 Prussian, British, and French soldiers clashed at Waterloo. Published to mark the 200th anniversary, The Battle of Waterloo Experience is a compelling new treatment of the Hundred Days campaign, beautifully illustrated and including reproductions of contemporary letters and documents that graphically portray the background to Napoleon's final overthrow.

Waterloo

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Total Pages : 239 pages
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Book Synopsis Waterloo by : David Armine Howarth

Download or read book Waterloo written by David Armine Howarth and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For eighteen years, Napoleon and his armies had overrun and terrorized more and more of Europe. Most of that time, the families of the British soldiers had lived in fear of invasion, and the younger soldiers themselves had been brought up with Napoleon as a familiar bogy. Then at last he had overreached himself and been beaten -- and Wellington and his British troops, fighting through the Spanish peninsula, had been able to claim a good share of the credit for his downfall. In April 1814, only just over a year before, Napoleon had been sent into exile on the island of Elba. - p. [5].

One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo

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Publisher : VM eBooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
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Book Synopsis One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo by : G. A. Henty

Download or read book One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo written by G. A. Henty and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although in the present story a boy plays the principal part, and encounters many adventures by land and sea, a woman is the real heroine, and the part she played demanded an amount of nerve and courage fully equal to that necessary for those who take part in active warfare. Boys are rather apt to think, mistakenly, that their sex has a monopoly of courage, but I believe that in moments of great peril women are to the full as brave and as collected as men. Indeed, my own somewhat extensive experience leads me to go even further, and to assert that among a civil population, untrained to arms, the average woman is cooler and more courageous than the average man. Women are nervous about little matters; they may be frightened at a mouse or at a spider; but in the presence of real danger, when shells are bursting in the streets, and rifle bullets flying thickly, I have seen them standing kitting at their doors and talking to their friends across the street when not a single man was to be seen.

Napoleon and Wellington

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297865269
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Book Synopsis Napoleon and Wellington by : Andrew Roberts

Download or read book Napoleon and Wellington written by Andrew Roberts and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual biography of the greatest opposing generals of their age who ultimately became fixated on one another, by a bestselling historian. 'Thoroughly enjoyable, beautifully written and meticulously researched' Observer On the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could not fail to win an easy victory. Forever afterwards historians have accused him of gross overconfidence, and massively underestimating the calibre of the British commander opposed to him. Andrew Roberts presents an original, highly revisionist view of the relationship between the two greatest captains of their age. Napoleon, who was born in the same year as Wellington - 1769 - fought Wellington by proxy years earlier in the Peninsula War, praising his ruthlessness in private while publicly deriding him as a mere 'sepoy general'. In contrast, Wellington publicly lauded Napoleon, saying that his presence on a battlefield was worth forty thousand men, but privately wrote long memoranda lambasting Napoleon's campaigning techniques. Although Wellington saved Napoleon from execution after Waterloo, Napoleon left money in his will to the man who had tried to assassinate Wellington. Wellington in turn amassed a series of Napoleonic trophies of his great victory, even sleeping with two of the Emperor's mistresses.

The Downfall of Napoleon

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Total Pages : 224 pages
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Book Synopsis The Downfall of Napoleon by : Walter Scott

Download or read book The Downfall of Napoleon written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Waterloo

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Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468315404
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Book Synopsis Waterloo by : Paul O'Keeffe

Download or read book Waterloo written by Paul O'Keeffe and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consequences of Napoleon’s most famous defeat are explored in this “highly readable, richly anecdotal retelling of the battle’s devastating results” (Kirkus). In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks, and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared, its dead buried or burned, its ground and ruins overrun by tourists; the victorious British and Prussian armies would invade France and occupy Paris. And for Napoleon, there was no avenue ahead but surrender, exile and captivity. In this dramatic account of the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, Paul O'Keeffe employs a multiplicity of contemporary sources and viewpoints to create a reading experience that brings into focus as never before the sights, sounds, and smells of the battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of celebration and riot.

Waterloo

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191640298
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis Waterloo by : Alan Forrest

Download or read book Waterloo written by Alan Forrest and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved the deployment of huge armies and incurred heavy losses on both sides; for those who fought in it, Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and Hanoverians as well as British and French troops, it was a murderous struggle. It was a battle that would be remembered very differently across Europe. In Britain it would be seen as an iconic battle whose memory would be enmeshed in British national identity across the following century. In London news of the victory unleashed an outburst of patriotic celebration and captured the imagination of the public. The Duke of Wellington would go on to build his political career on it, and towns and cities across Britain and the Empire raised statues and memorials to the victor. But it was only in Britain that Waterloo acquired this iconic status. In Prussia and Holland its memory was muted - in Prussia overshadowed by the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, in Holland a simple appendage to the prestige of the House of Orange. And in France it would be portrayed as the very epitome of heroic defeat. Encapsulated in the bravery of General Cambronne and the last stand of the Old Guard, remembered movingly in the lines of Stendhal and Victor Hugo, the memory of Waterloo served to sustain the romantic legend of the Napoleonic Wars - and contributed to the growing cult of Napoleon himself.

The Lost Love of a Soldier (The Marlow Family Secrets, Book 4)

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007594658
Total Pages : 223 pages
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Book Synopsis The Lost Love of a Soldier (The Marlow Family Secrets, Book 4) by : Jane Lark

Download or read book The Lost Love of a Soldier (The Marlow Family Secrets, Book 4) written by Jane Lark and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Fans of War and Peace will relish this poignant novel of love and loss’ International Bestseller, Nicola Cornick