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Author : Andrew Thomas Blayney Baron Blayney
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Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Narrative of a Forced Journey Through Spain and France written by Andrew Thomas Blayney Baron Blayney and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : BLAYNEY
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Narrative of a Forced Journey througn Spain and France as a Prisoner of War in the Years 1810 to 1814 written by BLAYNEY and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Major-General Lord Andrew Thomas Blayney
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 190869260X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Narrative of a forced journey through Spain and France, as a prisoner of war, in the years 1810 to 1814 written by Major-General Lord Andrew Thomas Blayney and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major-General Lord Andrew Thomas Blayney although previously a successful commander of his own regiment the 89th Regiment of Foot of the British through-out the early stages of the Peninsular war, he is best known for his narrative of events after his capture by Polish forces fighting under the flag of Napoleonic France. Blayney was the leader of an ill-fated Anglo-Spanish force which was assigned the task of attacking from Cadiz toward Malaga, culminating the battle of Fuengirola on 15th October 1810. Outnumbering his Polish foes by a huge margin, a series of unfortunate accidents on the allied side and brave and heroic resistance on the Polish side led to a debacle and his capture. It should be noted that this was far from the only amphibious disaster led by the British in the Peninsular Wars that should throw further perspective on the victories of the main British army under Wellington. Blayney’s narrative along with some idiosyncratic spelling recounts his journey from Andulusia to Verdun in the north-east of France. During his journey from one outpost to another as a paroled prisoner he meets a number of famed French generals, as befitted his rank, such as Sébastiani, Kellermann, Belliard and even Marshal Bessiéres who treat him on the whole well. He winds his way through the countryside, and he tells many tales of the people and surroundings that he finds himself somewhat forcibly journeying through. The main strength of the narrative is the author’s eye to detail and his flair for recounting a tale, along with the real rarity of accounts from the point of view of an English prisoner of war. Published in two volumes this is the first volume.
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Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
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Author : C. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137316535
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Narratives of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars written by C. Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland, drawing on an extensive range of personal testimonies by soldiers, sailors and civilians to shed new light on the social and cultural history of the period and the history of warfare more broadly.
Author : William Mahon
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473870526
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Waterloo Messenger written by William Mahon and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Battle of Waterloo Sir William Ponsonby, a man who the Duke of Wellington stated had rendered very brilliant and important services and was an ornament to his profession, was killed by French lancers after leading the Union Brigade (the three Dragoon Regiments of the Royals, Iniskillings and Scots Greys) in a charge that wrecked a French advance that threatened Wellington with defeat. Sir William was a career soldier who had led his regiment in the decisive charge at the Battle of Salamanca and served with great distinction during the Peninsular War. Yet historians have blamed him because the charge at Waterloo got out of hand. In this book John Morewood uses family sources, including Sir Williams letters, as well as French and German accounts, to restore his reputation and, by shedding new light on the battle, establishes what really happen to him on that fatal afternoon. It is also a biography of a man whose bravery and professionalism distinguished him as one of the outstanding cavalry commanders of the age.
Author : Charles Esdaile
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473870844
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Napoleon, France and Waterloo written by Charles Esdaile and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So great is the weight of reading on the subject of the Waterloo campaign that it might be thought there is nothing left to say about it, and from the military viewpoint, this is very much the case. But one critical aspect of the story has gone all but untold the French home front. Little has been written about the topic in English, and few works on Napoleon or Revolutionary and Napoleonic France pay it much attention. It is this conspicuous gap in the literature that Charles Esdaile explores in this erudite and absorbing study. Drawing on the vivid, revealing material that is available in the French archives, in the writings of soldiers who fought in France in 1814 and 1815 and in the memoirs of civilians who witnessed the fall of Napoleon or the Hundred Days, he gives us a fascinating new insight into the military and domestic context of the Waterloo campaign, the Napoleonic legend and the wider situation across Europe.
Author : Thomas Moore
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780874132564
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (325 download)
Download or read book The Journal of Thomas Moore written by Thomas Moore and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1983 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a hundred years, the journal of the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was thought to have been destroyed. In 1967 the manuscript was found in the archives of the Longman Publishing House in London. This edition, to be published in six volumes, reveals the essential Moore and introduces the reader to the daily, personal record of Moore's life from 1818 to 1847. The journal begins as an accurate rendering of the author's daily life and ends as a tragic reflection of a failing memory and a deteriorating mind. Illustrated.
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Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The British review and London critical journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Southey
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Total Pages : 496 pages
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Download or read book History of the Peninsular War ... written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
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Author : Reva Wolf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501337971
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century Forward written by Reva Wolf and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 With the dramatic rise of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, art played a fundamental role in its practice, rhetoric, and global dissemination, while Freemasonry, in turn, directly influenced developments in art. This mutually enhancing relationship has only recently begun to receive its due. The vilification of Masons, and their own secretive practices, have hampered critical study and interpretation. As perceptions change, and as masonic archives and institutions begin opening to the public, the time is ripe for a fresh consideration of the interconnections between Freemasonry and the visual arts. This volume offers diverse approaches, and explores the challenges inherent to the subject, through a series of eye-opening case studies that reveal new dimensions of well-known artists such as Francisco de Goya and John Singleton Copley, and important collectors and entrepreneurs, including Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and Baron Taylor. Individual essays take readers to various countries within Europe and to America, Iran, India, and Haiti. The kinds of art analyzed are remarkably wide-ranging-porcelain, architecture, posters, prints, photography, painting, sculpture, metalwork, and more-and offer a clear picture of the international scope of the relationships between Freemasonry and art and their significance for the history of modern social life, politics, and spiritual practices. In examining this topic broadly yet deeply, Freemasonry and the Visual Arts sets a standard for serious study of the subject and suggests new avenues of investigation in this fascinating emerging field.
Author : George Edward Cokayne
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Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Bass to Canning written by George Edward Cokayne and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Esdaile
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844151913
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
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.
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Publisher : Field Day Publications
ISBN 13 : 0946755493
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Field Day Review 6 (2010) written by and published by Field Day Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James M. Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1573566810
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Daily Life During the Spanish Inquisition written by James M. Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of persecuted minorities, as well as that of the wealthy and the ordinary people of Spain during the Spanish Inquisition, comes alive in this illuminating account. For three and a half centuries, the Inquisition permeated every aspect of daily life in early modern Spain. This history depicts in graphic terms the dangers faced by Jews and Muslims and their suffering at the hands of the Inquisitors, as well as the struggle for survival of the lower classes and the ostentatious display of wealth of the high nobility. Set against the political, religious, social, economic, and cultural events of the time, it presents a balanced account, rich in detail, of the daily activities of the Spanish people during this period. Each chapter offers a succinct perspective of life during early modern Spain, covering the political and social setting, the Church, the Inquisition, Jews and Conversos, Muslims and Moriscos, the court, urban and rural life, family life, clothes and fashions, food, arts and entertainment, military life, education, and health and medicine. All these aspects of life are discussed in the context of a society experiencing profound internal conflicts arising from matters of religion, class, gender, and ethnic prejudice. Interwoven in the text is a discussion of relevant political and economic events that helped to shape the times, as well as comments from both contemporary Spanish writers and foreign visitors who witnessed firsthand the conditions and attitudes of the people. More than 40 illustrations, a timeline of important events, a list of Spanish rulers during the centuries of the Inquisition, a glossary, and a bibliography add value to the narrative.
Author : Charles J Esdaile
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429835485
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Wars of Napoleon written by Charles J Esdaile and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995 to great critical acclaim, The Wars of Napoleon provides students with a comprehensive survey of the Napoleonic Wars around the central theme of the scale of French military power and its impact on other European states, from Portugal to Russia and from Scandinavia to Sicily. The book introduces the reader to the rise of Napoleon and the wider diplomatic and political context before analysing such subjects as how France came to dominate Europe; the impact of French conquest and the spread of French ideas; the response of European powers; the experience of the conflicts of 1799–1815 on such areas of the world as the West Indies, India and South America; the reasons why Napoleon’s triumph proved ephemeral; and the long-term impact of the period. This second edition has been revised throughout to include a completely re-written section on collaboration and resistance, a new chapter on the impact of the Napoleonic Wars in the wider world and material on the various ways in which women became involved in, or were affected by, the conflict. Thoroughly updated and offering students a view of the subject that challenges many preconceived ideas, The Wars of Napoleon remains an essential resource for all students of the French Revolutionary Wars as well as students of European and military history during this period.
