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Book Synopsis Commanding Wellington's Horse Artillery by : Edward Sabine
Download or read book Commanding Wellington's Horse Artillery written by Edward Sabine and published by Leonaur Limited. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The galloping guns in the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign Based on the experiences of Wellington's commander of horse artillery, Augustus Simon Frazer, these highly informative letters were written while he was on campaign against Napoleon's forces during the Peninsular War in Spain and the Waterloo Campaign in 1815. Born the son of an officer of engineers in Dunkirk in 1776, Frazer was gazetted as a second lieutenant into the Royal Artillery in 1793. By early 1794 he was campaigning in Flanders under the Duke of York where he was promoted and took part in several engagements including Tournai and Boxtel. By 1799 he had joined the Royal Horse Artillery and promoted again was once more back in the Low Countries. In 1807, then a captain, Frazer joined the ill-fated expedition to Buenos Aires. Although his military service had been thus far in poorly performing campaigns, Frazer had become a skilful commander of artillery and so in 1811, he joined the army under Wellington in the Iberian peninsula. He served with distinction at Salamanca, Osma, Burgos, Vitoria, San Sebastian, during the Pyrenees engagements and at Bayonne where he was wounded. At the end of the Peninsular War he returned to England a Lieutenant-Colonel. Napoleon's last great gamble for power in 1815 brought Frazer back to the battlefield in Belgium commanding the Royal Horse Artillery. Attached to Wellington's headquarters he saw action at Quatre Bras. During the Battle of Waterloo the horse artillery performed brilliantly in the vicinity of Hougoumont. Frazer's letters offer the reader the immediacy of reportage from a military eyewitness and are an essential component of every library of the warfare of the Napoleonic period. This special Leonaur edition contains illustrations and maps not present in original versions of the text. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Book Synopsis Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K.C.B. Commanding the Royal Horse Artillery in the Army Under Wellington by : Sir Augustus Simon Frazer
Download or read book Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K.C.B. Commanding the Royal Horse Artillery in the Army Under Wellington written by Sir Augustus Simon Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis commanding the Royal Horse Artillery in the army under the Duke of Wellington, written during the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns by : Sir Augustus Simon Frazer
Download or read book commanding the Royal Horse Artillery in the army under the Duke of Wellington, written during the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns written by Sir Augustus Simon Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K. C. B by : Augustus Simon Frazer
Download or read book Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K. C. B written by Augustus Simon Frazer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K. C. B: Commanding the Royal Horse Artillery in the Army Under Duke of Wellington; Written During the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns In J une, 1811, Captain Frazer received the brevet rank of Major; and in November, 1812, joined, in the Peninsula, the army under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, having made a temporary exchange of troops with Maj or Bull, who was under the necessity of returning to England from severe illness. The Letters in this volume commence from this date. 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.
Author :Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer K.C.B. Publisher :Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN 13 :1786251906 Total Pages :818 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (862 download)
Book Synopsis The Letters of Sir Augustus Frazer K.C.B. Commanding The Royal Horse Artillery by : Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer K.C.B.
Download or read book The Letters of Sir Augustus Frazer K.C.B. Commanding The Royal Horse Artillery written by Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer K.C.B. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes over 100 maps of the actions, engagements and battles of the entire Peninsular War. “A full and vivid account of the Peninsula War and the Waterloo campaign as they happened in some 180 letters to his family written by Col. Frazer, commander of the Horse Artillery in both conflicts. The writer of these letters, Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K.C.B, was born in September 1776 and a month before his fourteenth birthday he was admitted as a Gentleman Cadet into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich... Promoted Major in June 1811 he went to the Peninsula in November 1812, and it is from this date that the letters begin. In April 1813 Frazer was appointed to command the Horse Artillery of the army and as such saw action at Salamanca, Osma, Vitoria, St Sebastian, the crossings of the Bidassoa, Nive and Adour. He was severely wounded at the siege of Bayonne on 27 February 1814 but was back for the final battle of Toulouse in April which brought hostilities against the French to a close. When war with France broke out again on Napoleon’s escape from Elba Sir Augustus joined the allied army in Flanders, under the Duke of Wellington, in March 1815 and resumed command of the Horse Artillery, the post he held during the battle of Waterloo. On return to England he was appointed commander HQ RHA, Woolwich until promoted Colonel in January 1825. Frazer was a prolific letter writer and the letters contained in this book were written to his wife, Lady Emma Frazer (whom he married in 1809) and to his wife’s sister and her husband, Major and Mrs Moore. They give a fascinating account of the stirring events of the time. 140 of them were written during the Peninsular campaign and a further 41 during the Waterloo campaign. They describe events literally as they occurred.”-Print ed.
Book Synopsis Wellington’s Guns by : Nick Lipscombe
Download or read book Wellington’s Guns written by Nick Lipscombe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the same engaging style of Mark Urban's Fusiliers and Rifles, this is a brilliant study of the Gunners who revolutionised warfare during the course of the Napoleonic Wars despite the opposition of their commander-in-chief. Dismissive, conservative and aloof, Wellington treated his artillery with disdain during the Napoleonic Wars – despite their growing influence on the field of battle. Wellington's Guns exposes, for the very first time, the often stormy relationship between Wellington and his artillery, how the reluctance to modernize the British artillery corps threatened to derail the British push for victory and how Wellington's views on the command and appointment structure within the artillery opened up damaging rifts between him and his men. At a time when artillery was undergoing revolutionary changes – from the use of mountain guns during the Pyrenees campaign in the Peninsular, the innovative execution of 'danger-close' missions to clear the woods of Hougomont at Waterloo, to the introduction of creeping barrages and Congreve's rockets – Wellington seemed to remain distrustful of a force that played a significant role in shaping tactics and changing the course of the war. Using extensive research and first-hand accounts, Colonel Nick Lipscombe reveals that despite Wellington's brilliance as a field commander, his abrupt and uncompromising leadership style, particularly towards his artillery commanders, shaped the Napoleonic Wars, and how despite this, the ever-evolving technology and tactics ensured that the extensive use of artillery became one of the hallmarks of a modern army.
Book Synopsis All for the King's Shilling by : Edward J Coss
Download or read book All for the King's Shilling written by Edward J Coss and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded by the duke’s own words—“scum of the earth”—and assumed to have been society’s ne’er-do-wells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice. Now Edward J. Coss shows to the contrary that most of these redcoats were respectable laborers and tradesmen and that it was mainly their working-class status that prompted the duke’s derision. Driven into the army by unemployment in the wake of Britain’s industrial revolution, they confronted wartime hardship with ethical values and became formidable soldiers in the bargain These men depended on the king’s shilling for survival, yet pay was erratic and provisions were scant. Fed worse even than sixteenth-century Spanish galley slaves, they often marched for days without adequate food; and if during the campaign they did steal from Portuguese and Spanish civilians, the theft was attributable not to any criminal leanings but to hunger and the paltry rations provided by the army. Coss draws on a comprehensive database on British soldiers as well as first-person accounts of Peninsular War participants to offer a better understanding of their backgrounds and daily lives. He describes how these neglected and abused soldiers came to rely increasingly on the emotional and physical support of comrades and developed their own moral and behavioral code. Their cohesiveness, Coss argues, was a major factor in their legendary triumphs over Napoleon’s battle-hardened troops. The first work to closely examine the social composition of Wellington’s rank and file through the lens of military psychology, All for the King’s Shilling transcends the Napoleonic battlefield to help explain the motivation and behavior of all soldiers under the stress of combat.
Book Synopsis Letters of colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, [commanding the royal horse artillery in the army] under the Duke of Wellington by : Augustus Simon Frazer
Download or read book Letters of colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, [commanding the royal horse artillery in the army] under the Duke of Wellington written by Augustus Simon Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K. C. B. Commanding the Royal Horse Artillery in the Army Under Wellington by : Augustus Simon Frazer
Download or read book Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K. C. B. Commanding the Royal Horse Artillery in the Army Under Wellington written by Augustus Simon Frazer and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K. C. B. Commanding the Royal Horse Artillery in the Army Under Wellington. Written During the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns by : Augustus Simon Frazer
Download or read book Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K. C. B. Commanding the Royal Horse Artillery in the Army Under Wellington. Written During the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns written by Augustus Simon Frazer and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Book Synopsis Open Fire by : Basil Perronet Hughes
Download or read book Open Fire written by Basil Perronet Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters of Colonel Sir A. S. Frazer, K.C.B., Commanding the Royal Horse Artillery in the Army Under the Duke of Wellington. Written During the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns. Edited by ... E. Sabine by : Sir Augustus Simon FRAZER
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Book Synopsis The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington in Portugal, Spain and France from 1809 to 1814, and in the Low Countries and France 1815 and in France, Army of Occupation, from 1816 to 1818 by : Arthur Wellesley of Wellington
Download or read book The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington in Portugal, Spain and France from 1809 to 1814, and in the Low Countries and France 1815 and in France, Army of Occupation, from 1816 to 1818 written by Arthur Wellesley of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington ... in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809 to 1814 by : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Download or read book The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington ... in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809 to 1814 written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K.C.B. by : Sir Edward Sabine
Download or read book Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K.C.B. written by Sir Edward Sabine and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K. C. B. Commanding the Royal Horse Artillery in the Army Under Wellington written by Augustus Simon Frazer and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Book Synopsis Wellington's Command by : George E. Jaycock
Download or read book Wellington's Command written by George E. Jaycock and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-01-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military historian assesses the leadership style of the man who defeated Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington’s victory at the Battle of Waterloo cemented his reputation as a great general, and much subsequent writing on his career has taken an uncritical, sometimes chauvinistic view of his talents. Little has been published that fully pins down the reality of Wellington’s leadership, clearly identifying his weaknesses as well as his strengths. George E. Jaycock, in this perceptive and thought-provoking reassessment, does not aim to undermine Wellington’s achievements, but to provide a more nuanced perspective. He clarifies some simple but fundamental truths regarding his leadership and his performance as a commander. Through an in-depth study of his actions over the war years of 1808 to 1815, the author reassesses Wellington’s effectiveness as a commander, the competence of his subordinates, and the qualities of the troops he led. His study gives a fascinating insight into Wellington’s career and abilities. Wellington’s Command is absorbing reading for both military historians and those with an interest in the Napoleonic period.
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