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Author : Joseph Jocelyn Anderson
Publisher : London : E. Arnold
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran written by Joseph Jocelyn Anderson and published by London : E. Arnold. This book was released on 1913 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Jocelyn Anderson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019859247
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran written by Joseph Jocelyn Anderson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir offers a firsthand account of the Peninsular War, one of the most significant military conflicts of the early 19th century. With vivid descriptions and personal insights, the authors provide a unique perspective on the realities of combat and the toll it takes on individuals and communities. 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 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. 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.
Author : Benjamin Randell Harris
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474626327
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Recollections of Rifleman Harris written by Benjamin Randell Harris and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Describing narrow squeaks and terrible deprivations, Harris's unflowery account of fortitude and resilience in Spain still bristles with a freshness and an invigorating spikiness' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 'A most vivid record of the war in Spain and Portugal against Napoleon' MAIL ON SUNDAY Benjamin Harris was a young shepherd from Dorset who joined the army in 1802 and later joined the dashing 95th Rifles. His battalion was ordered to Portugal, where he marched under the burning sun, weighed down by his kit and great-coat, plus all the tools and leather he had to carry as the battalion's cobbler - 'the lapstone I took the liberty of flinging to the Devil'. Rifleman Harris was a natural story-teller with a remarkable tale to unfold, and his Recollections have become one of the most popular military books of all time.
Author : Joseph Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789354034947
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran written by Joseph Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Jocelyn Anderson
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
ISBN 13 : 9781297388514
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Joseph Jocelyn Anderson and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 316 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.
Author : Joseph Anderson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267473342
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran (Classic Reprint) written by Joseph Anderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran Acland Anderson, was for many years the colonel-commandant of the Military Forces of e.m. Government in Victoria, which appoint ment he held till his death in January, 1882. He was the founder of the Volunteer Organization, as in 1855 he raised a Rifle Corps in Melbourne, which was not only the first in Victoria but probably the first in Australia. 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 : Lt-Colonel Joseph Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845748197
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran written by Lt-Colonel Joseph Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of a long and uncommonly eventful life, when these thrilling memoirs were written, it was his distant youth as a soldier in the Peninsular War that Joseph Anderson (1790-1877) recalled most vividly. A Scottish soldier, who ended his career a Lieutenant-Colonel, a CB and a Knight of Hanover; Anderson joined the 78th Regiment of Foot in his native Stirlingshire at the tender age of 15. After service in Italy and Egypt, the 78th landed in Spain where Joseph took part in the Battle of Talavera where he was wounded. His potential was soon recognised and he was quickly commissioned as a Lieutenant. After battling the French under the wily Marshal Massena, Wellington s army retreated into Portugal, taking refuge behind the lines of Torres Vedras before Lisbon. Anderson took part in the battles of Busaco and Fuentes D Onoro - where he risked death to recover the body of a comrade. Training in the army as a Judge-Advocate, Anderson was ordered to accompany a shipload of three hundred convicts bound for Australia where he was placed in charge of the penal colony on Norfolk Island. The convicts promptly mutinied, but after it was put down Anderson was cleared of any responsibility for the outbreak.and retired to Melbourne where he wrote these much-admired memoirs at 74 and died aged 88.
Author : William Berry Lapham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Recollections of the War of the Rebellion written by William Berry Lapham and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy Dempsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848324992
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (249 download)
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.
Author : Joseph Anderson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781979309387
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Recollections of a Peninsula Veteran written by Joseph Anderson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Sherer's record of service in the Peninsular War is second to none. A hard campaigner, he served with the 34th Foot at Busaco, Badajoz, Albuera, Arroyo Molinos, Vittoria and the Pyrenees, during which he was taken prisoner by the advancing French. In this, his service was no different to huge numbers of officers, a good number of whom left their memoirs to posterity. What marks out Sherer and his recollections is their quality.
Author : Jennine Hurl-Eamon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191502766
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Marriage and the British Army in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Jennine Hurl-Eamon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Girl I Left Behind Me addresses a neglected aspect of the history of the Hanoverian army. From 1685 to the beginning of the Victorian era, army administration attempted to discourage marriage among men in almost all ranks. It fostered a misogynist culture of the bachelor soldier who trifled with feminine hearts and avoided responsibility and commitment. The army's policy was unsuccessful in preventing military marriage. By concentrating on the many soldiers' wives who were unable to win permission to live "on the strength" of the regiment (entitled to half-rations) and travel with their husbands, this title explores the phenomenon of soldiers who persisted in defying the army's anti-marriage initiatives. Using evidence gathered from ballads, novels, court and parish records, letters, memoirs, and War Office papers, Jennine Hurl-Eamon shows that both soldiers and their wives exerted continual pressure on the state through evocative appeals to officers and civilians, fuelled by wives' pride in performing their own military "duty" at home. Respectable, companionate couples of all ranks reflect a subculture within the army that recognized the value in Enlightenment femininity. Looking at military marriages within the telescoping contexts of the state, their regimental and civilian communities, and the couples themselves, The Girl I Left Behind Me reveals the range of masculinities beneath the uniform, the positive influence of wives and sweethearts on soldiers' performance of their duties, and the surprising resilience of partnerships severed by war and army anti-marriage policies.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1642 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Author : Martin R. Howard
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473871514
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Death Before Glory! written by Martin R. Howard and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Before Glory! is a highly readable, thoroughly researched and comprehensive study of the British army's campaigns in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period and of the extraordinary experiences of the soldiers who served there. Rich in sugar, cotton, coffee and slaves, the region was a key to British prosperity and it was perhaps even more important to her greatest enemy France. Yet, until now, the history of this vital theatre of the Napoleonic Wars has been seriously neglected. Not only does Martin Howard describe, in graphic detail, the entirety of the British campaigns in the region between 1793 and 1815, he also focuses on the human experience of the men the climate and living conditions, the rations and diet, military discipline and training, the treatment of the wounded and the impact of disease. Martin Howard's thoroughgoing and original work is the essential account of this fascinating but often overlooked aspect of the history of the British army and the Napoleonic Wars.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2134 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers' Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 2134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394753666
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)
Download or read book The Fatal Shore written by Robert Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988-02-12 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. "One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hughes has crafted a groundbreaking, definitive account of the settling of Australia. Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the history of the country we thought we knew.
Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787206688
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Corunna written by Christopher Hibbert and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried.’ —from ‘The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna’ by Charles Wolfe One of the best remembered poems in the English language has served to keep alive the memory of Sir John Moore and of his burial at Corunna on 17 January, 1809. The story of the battle which he fought on the previous day and of the short campaign and horrifying retreat which preceded it is, however, not so well known. The Battle of Corunna saved a British army from annihilation and resulted in the tragic death of one of England’s finest generals. Setting out from Lisbon in the autumn of 1808, Sir John Moore had marched his army into Spain against Napoleon and by a daring manoeuvre had thrown it across the line of French communications. But, having thus drawn off Napoleon’s army from Madrid, Moore found himself so outnumbered and with no hope of assistance from the ineffectual Spanish armies, that he decided to withdraw to the coast. After a 250-mile retreat across the mountains of Galicia under appalling weather conditions, with inadequate food supplies and the French hard on his heels, he eventually reached the port of Corunna. Here he turned and drew up his depleted forces to face Marshal Soult’s massive army; and, though mortally wounded in the ensuing battle, he lived long enough to learn that the French had been checked and that his own army would be able to embark in safety. In Corunna extensive use is made of the many eyewitness accounts which survive in the form of official despatches, histories, diaries, memoirs and letters. With the aid of these, Christopher Hibbert not only shows a remarkable understanding of John Moore and his fellow officers, of their conflicting characters and views, but also provides a horrifying picture of the hardships of this brief and bitter campaign.
