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Book Synopsis Rough Sketches Of Life Of An Old Soldier; by : Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Leach C.B.
Download or read book Rough Sketches Of Life Of An Old Soldier; written by Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Leach C.B. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leach describes his exploits with the 95th Rifles, including the expedition to Denmark, the battles of Rolica, Vimiero, Busaco, Salamanca, Vitoria, and the Nivelle, culminating in the battle of Waterloo, where he was posted to the sand-pit next to the crucial position of La Haye Sainte. He also recounts the vicissitudes of campaigning in the Peninsular, vividly describing those under his command and those of higher rank that he came into contact with. Full Title of the book is - Rough Sketches Of Life Of An Old Soldier; During A Service In The West Indies; At The Siege Of Copenhagen In 1807; In The Peninsula And The South Of France In The Campaigns From 1808 To 1814, With The Light Division; In The Netherlands In 1815; Including The Battles Of Quatre Bras And Waterloo: With A Slight Sketch Of The Three Years Passed By The Army Of Occupation In France, &c. &c. &c. A classic of the genre.
Book Synopsis Rough Sketches of the Life of an Old Soldier by : Jonathan Leach
Download or read book Rough Sketches of the Life of an Old Soldier written by Jonathan Leach and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rough Sketches of the Life of an Old Soldier: During a Service in the West Indies by : Jonathan Leach
Download or read book Rough Sketches of the Life of an Old Soldier: During a Service in the West Indies written by Jonathan Leach and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Who Owned Waterloo? by : Luke Reynolds
Download or read book Who Owned Waterloo? written by Luke Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1815 and the Duke of Wellington's death in 1852, the Battle of Waterloo became much more than simply a military victory. While other countries marked the battle and its anniversary, only Britain actively incorporated the victory into their national identity, guaranteeing that it would become a ubiquitous and multi-layered presence in British culture. By examining various forms of commemoration, celebration, and recreation, Who Owned Waterloo? demonstrates that Waterloo's significance to Britain's national psyche resulted in a different kind of war altogether: one in which civilian and military groups fought over and established their own claims on different aspects of the battle and its remembrance. By weaponizing everything from memoirs, monuments, rituals, and relics to hippodramas, panoramas, and even shades of blue, veterans pushed back against civilian claims of ownership; English, Scottish, and Irish interests staked their claims; and conservatives and radicals duelled over the direction of the country. Even as ownership was contested among certain groups, large portions of the British population purchased souvenirs, flocked to spectacles and exhibitions, visited the battlefield itself, and engaged in a startling variety of forms of performative patriotism, guaranteeing not only the further nationalization of Waterloo, but its permanent place in nineteenth century British popular and consumer culture.
Book Synopsis The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835 by : Neil Ramsey
Download or read book The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835 written by Neil Ramsey and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Book Synopsis The Wandering Army by : Huw J. Davies
Download or read book The Wandering Army written by Huw J. Davies and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe “Superb analysis.”—William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army’s military tactics were tired and outdated, stultified after three decades of peace. The army’s leadership was conservative, resistant to change, and unable to match new military techniques developing on the continent. Losses were cataclysmic and the force was in dire need of modernization—both in terms of strategy and in leadership and technology. In this wide-ranging and highly original account, Huw J. Davies traces the British Army’s accumulation of military knowledge across the following century. An essentially global force, British armies and soldiers continually gleaned and synthesized strategy from war zones the world over: from Europe to the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Davies records how the army and its officers put this globally acquired knowledge to use, exchanging information and developing into a remarkable vehicle of innovation—leading to the pinnacle of its military prowess in the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc by :
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Book Synopsis Military History of Scotland by : Spiers Edward M. Spiers
Download or read book Military History of Scotland written by Spiers Edward M. Spiers and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. Until now, no reference work has attempted to examine this vast heritage of warfare.A Military History of Scotland offers readers an unparalleled insight into the evolution of the Scottish military tradition. This wide-ranging and extensively illustrated volume traces the military history of Scotland from pre-history to the recent conflict in Afghanistan. Edited by three leading military historians, and featuring contributions from thirty scholars, it explores the role of warfare in the emergence of a Scottish kingdom, the forging of a Scottish-British military identity, and the participation of Scots in Britain's imperial and world wars. Eschewing a narrow definition of military history, it investigates the cultural and physical dimensions of Scotland's military past such as Scottish military dress and music, the role of the Scottish soldier in art and literature, Scotland's fortifications and battlefield archaeology, and Scotland's military memorials and museum collections.
Book Synopsis Robert Craufurd: The Man & the Myth by : Ian Fletcher
Download or read book Robert Craufurd: The Man & the Myth written by Ian Fletcher and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most students of the Peninsular War the name Robert Craufurd evokes images of a battle-hardened martinet, flogging his men across Portugal and Spain, driving them hard and generally taking a tough stance against anything and everything that did not meet with his own strict disciplinarian code. But that is only a partial picture of this most complex character, and it is the other side of Craufurd’s personality that is revealed in this, the first full-length biography to be written in the last hundred years. Craufurd’s letters to his wife are published here for the first time, and they show that he was a far more interesting and varied man in his private life than he appeared to be on campaign. Ian Fletcher follows Craufurd’s controversial career from India, Ireland and South America to the Iberian Peninsula where he achieved immortality as one of Wellington’s finest generals.
Book Synopsis The Life of Henry IV., King of France and Navarre by : George Payne Rainsford James
Download or read book The Life of Henry IV., King of France and Navarre written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson by : Thom. Jos Pettigrew
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson written by Thom. Jos Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Conquest of Scinde, with Some Introductory Passages in the Life of Major-General Sir Charles James Napier by : W. Napier
Download or read book The Conquest of Scinde, with Some Introductory Passages in the Life of Major-General Sir Charles James Napier written by W. Napier and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Book Synopsis Wellington's Light Division in the Peninsular War by : Robert Burnham
Download or read book Wellington's Light Division in the Peninsular War written by Robert Burnham and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A detailed and riveting account of the Light Division and its three regiments, 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry and the 95th Rifles . . . An important book.” —Firetrench In February 1810, Wellington formed what became the most famous unit in the Peninsular War: the Light Division. Formed around the 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry and the 95th Rifles, the exploits of these three regiments is legendary. Over the next 50 months, the division would fight and win glory in almost every battle and siege of the Peninsular War. How the division achieved its fame began on the border of Spain and Portugal where it served as a screen between Wellington’s Army and the French. When it came time pull back from the border, the division endured a harrowing retreat with a relentless enemy at their heels. It was during this eventful year it developed an esprit-de-corps and a belief in its leaders and itself that was unrivaled in Wellington’s Army. Wellington’s Light Division in the Peninsular War uses over 100 primary sources—many never published before—to recount the numerous skirmishes, combats, and battles, as well as the hardships of a year of duty on the front lines. Others are from long-forgotten books published over 150 years ago. It is through the words of the officers and men who served with it that this major, and long-anticipated study of the first critical year of the Light Division is told. “Given the limited scope of the book, covering only one year of the Peninsular campaign, the depth of the study is truly remarkable . . . An excellent history of the Light Division ‘Warts and All.’”—The Napoleon Series
Book Synopsis History & Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade by : William Willoughby Cole Verner
Download or read book History & Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade written by William Willoughby Cole Verner and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Edwards's Military Catalogue by : Francis Edwards (Firm)
Download or read book Edwards's Military Catalogue written by Francis Edwards (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Publishers' circular and booksellers' record by :
Download or read book Publishers' circular and booksellers' record written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
