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Book Synopsis Wellington's Army (Illustrated) by : Charles Oman
Download or read book Wellington's Army (Illustrated) written by Charles Oman and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN HISTORICAL CLASSIC Wellington's Army is a classic history of Great Britain's Army during the Napoleonic Wars, by noted historian Charles Oman. DETAILS: Includes the Original Illustrations and Images of Wellington
Book Synopsis Wellington's Army by : Charles Hamilton Smith
Download or read book Wellington's Army written by Charles Hamilton Smith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Hamilton Smith's illustrations of soldiers of the British Army are a faithful and delightful record of how Wellington's troops were uniformed and equipped. Wellington's Army presents a collection of these sought after plates in a special, large format and provides a superb evocation of British military uniforms during the closing years of the Peninsular War and at the epic battle of Waterloo. The plates, drawn from life and completed in 1814, cover all the branches of service including line infantry; light infantry and rifles; heavy and light cavalry; general officers; foreign troops; artillery and engineers; and cadets and veterans. Each plate is accompanied by an incisive text by the leading expert on Wellington's troops - Philip Haythornthwaite - which discusses the unit in question, the uniform and its significant features. Wellington's Army also includes an extensive introduction analyzing the evolution of the British Army of the period and examining the colorful life of Charles Hamilton Smith.
Book Synopsis Wellington’s Peninsular Army by : James Lawford
Download or read book Wellington’s Peninsular Army written by James Lawford and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1973-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the Napoleonic period, the British Army's record left something to be desired. During the Peninsular War (1808-1814), however, Wellington led and trained an army that never knew a major defeat on the field. Even Wellington himself described his army as "able to go anywhere or do anything." This book examines the formidable British Army which played an integral part in stalling Napoleon's advance, focusing on the staff, infantry, cavalry, artillery and sieges and sappers. Numerous illustrations, including eight color plates, vividly depict the weaponry and uniforms of Wellington's Peninsular Army.
Book Synopsis Wellington's Army in the Peninsula 1809–14 by : Stuart Reid
Download or read book Wellington's Army in the Peninsula 1809–14 written by Stuart Reid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly detailed study provides a clear account of how the British Army was organised, who commanded it, and how it functioned in the field during the Peninsular War. Focusing principally on infantry, cavalry and artillery, including foreign units in British pay, it provides a detailed and comprehensive order of battle. Doctrine, training, tactics and equipment are discussed in depth, and medical services and engineers are also covered. Concise biographical details of key commanders, over 60 unit tree diagrams, organisational tables, plus numerous illustrations make this an essential reference work for students of this period.
Book Synopsis "Navy and Army Illustrated" Library. (Stories of Our National Heroes.) Wellington & Waterloo. By Major Arthur Griffiths by : Charles Napier ROBINSON
Download or read book "Navy and Army Illustrated" Library. (Stories of Our National Heroes.) Wellington & Waterloo. By Major Arthur Griffiths written by Charles Napier ROBINSON and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE Publisher :Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN 13 :1786255049 Total Pages :734 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (862 download)
Book Synopsis Wellington’s Army 1809-1814 [Illustrated Edition] by : Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE
Download or read book Wellington’s Army 1809-1814 [Illustrated Edition] written by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes over 100 maps of the actions, engagements and battles of the entire Peninsular War. Whilst writing his magisterial The History of The Peninsular War, Sir Charles Oman gathered material that was to become Wellington’s Army. Into Wellington’s Army he gathered, as he says in his Preface, “much miscellaneous information which does not bear upon the actual chronicle of events in the various campaigns that lie between 1808 and 1814, but yet possesses high interest in itself, and throws many a side-light on the general course of the war ... these notes relate either to the personal characteristics of that famous old army of Wellington, which, as he himself said, ‘could go anywhere and do anything,’ or to its inner mechanism — the details of its management. I purport to speak in these pages of the leaders and the led; of the daily life, manners, and customs of the Peninsular Army, as much as of its composition and its organization. I shall be dealing with the rank and file no less than with the officers, and must even find space for a few pages on that curious and polyglot horde of camp followers which trailed at the heels of the army, and frequently raised problems which worried not only colonels and adjutants, but even the Great Duke himself.”
Book Synopsis Poetical Illustrations of the Achievements of the Duke of Wellington and His Companions in Arms by : George Webb Derenzy
Download or read book Poetical Illustrations of the Achievements of the Duke of Wellington and His Companions in Arms written by George Webb Derenzy and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wellington’s Lieutenants [Illustrated Edition] by : Alexander Innes Shand
Download or read book Wellington’s Lieutenants [Illustrated Edition] written by Alexander Innes Shand and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes over 100 maps of the actions, engagements and battles of the entire Peninsular War. “The men who stood beside the Great Duke The Duke of Wellington was indisputably one of the most able military commanders in British history. He was not only a powerful intellect, but also a man of substantial character...To Wellington, delegation failed to come easily...He insisted on a knowledge of all things that might concern him and was prepared to issue directives on all matters. It is then, unsurprising that he eclipsed his immediate subordinates, senior figures and highly respected commanders in their own right, who were often given little latitude, and were regularly not fully briefed as to Wellington’s strategy and grand tactics; for example, at Waterloo, amid flying shot, the duke terrified his staff by appearing to be the only person in possession of the plan of battle. All this, however, does nothing to diminish the clear contribution many of those closest to the Great Duke made towards the success of his campaigns. While having lessons to learn from Wellington they were more than capable military men-if not actually possessed of quite the same degree of military ‘genius’ as their commander in chief. This book chronicles eight of Wellington’s lieutenants as they fought for him in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. Lord ‘Daddy’ Hill earned his nickname because of his extraordinary concern for the well-being of his soldiers; he was Wellington’s most trusted general and was, unusually, given independent command by Wellington. The fiery Craufurd, leader of the Light Division, could always be depended upon to take the fight to the enemy-sometimes whether it was prudent to do so or not. Picton, the hard swearing Welshman...Accounts of the campaigns and actions of these notable soldiers are joined in this riveting book by those of Beresford, Lynedoch, Hopetoun, Anglesey and Combermere.”-Print ed.
Book Synopsis Wellington's Army, 1809-1814 ... With Illustrations by : Charles Oman
Download or read book Wellington's Army, 1809-1814 ... With Illustrations written by Charles Oman and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of Wellington (Illustrations) by : Harold F. B. Wheeler
Download or read book The Story of Wellington (Illustrations) written by Harold F. B. Wheeler and published by Turnbull & Spears. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the last of a trio of volumes dealing with three great contemporary men of action, I have attempted to tell the story, in its main lines, of the crowded life of Wellington. The narrative provides as substantial a view of Wellington as is possible within the limits of my space, but I hope that readers of my book will be so interested that they will go on to the perusal of its companions, for the careers of Napoleon, Nelson, and Wellington should be studied together. They are the three sides of a triangle of which Napoleon is the base. The Duke’s career, when compared to the others, is “a plain, unvarnished tale,” not altogether devoid of romance, certainly not of adventure, but lacking in many of the qualities which have endeared less notable men. It would be obviously untrue to state that Wellington lacked humanity, but he was certainly deficient in that attractive personal magnetism so evident in Nelson. Speaking broadly, he did not repose that confidence in his subordinates which was one of the great sea-captain’s most marked characteristics, and he often said hard things of the men under him. Nelson is “the darling Hero of England”; Wellington will always be known as the Iron Duke. If it ever became the fashion to canonize military and naval men, Nelson’s nimbus would be of rosemary, Wellington’s of steel. The mob never broke the windows of Merton Place, but it shattered every exposed pane in Apsley House. The incident arose from8 his conscientious opposition to reform, and occurred in 1831, sixteen years after the battle of Waterloo. A little over a decade later, an immense mob cheered him as he proceeded up Constitution Hill. His acknowledgment was to point to the iron shutters of his house when he reached Hyde Park Corner. They had been put up after the bombardment by brickbats, and were never taken down during his lifetime. In a way, Wellington is the typical John Bull of our fancy. He gloried in an open-air life, he enjoyed sport, he was a man wedded to duty, stern and uncompromising once his mind was made up. We love to imagine that the average Briton displays the same characteristics, although we know at heart that he does not do so, and that the secret of our material success as a nation is our extraordinary power of absorption, of “setting our sail to every passing breeze,” of compromising provided we get the best of the bargain. This is how the Duke appeared to a foreigner, the Duchesse de Dino, Talleyrand’s niece: “He has a very exact memory, and never quotes incorrectly. He forgets nothing, and exaggerates nothing, and if his conversation is a little dry and military, it attracts by its fairness and perfect propriety. His tone is excellent, and no woman has ever to be on her guard against the turn that the conversation may take.” In later years Wellington’s memory failed somewhat. He was invariably precise, always a soldier, and never given to what is generally known as small talk. In a word, he commanded. A more intimate and less familiar view of Wellington is afforded us in the diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon, who painted the Duke’s portrait at Walmer Castle in the autumn of 1839. During breakfast, he tells us, “six dear, healthy, noisy children were brought to the windows. ‘Let them in,’ said the Duke, and in they came, and rushed over to him, saying, ‘How d’ye do, Duke? How d’ye do, Duke?’ One boy, young Grey,9 roared, ‘I want some tea, Duke!’ ‘You shall have it if you promise not to slop it over me, as you did yesterday.’ Toast and tea were then in demand. Three got on one side, and three on the other, and he hugged ’em all. Tea was poured out, and I saw little Grey try to slop it over the Duke’s frock coat. Sir Astley [Cooper] said, ‘You did not expect to see this.’ To be continue in this ebook...
Book Synopsis A British army, as it was, - is, - and ought to be by : James Campbell (Lt. Col.)
Download or read book A British army, as it was, - is, - and ought to be written by James Campbell (Lt. Col.) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wellington's Army written by Charles Oman and published by Leonaur Limited. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wellington and his remarkable 'old Peninsular Army' The excellence of Sir Charles Oman's scholarship as an historian is well established. He wrote on a wide variety of subjects and historical periods in an erudite but succinct and easy to read style and his comprehensive multi-volume history of the Peninsular War is widely regarded as the most significant work on the subject since the publication of Napier's history. This book is equally well known and well regarded. Within its pages Oman describes in some detail the British Army that fought the First Empire of the French in Spain, Portugal and the South of France. This story would be incomplete without that army's commander, and Wellington's performance and methodology is closely described, together with those of his most significant lieutenants. Each constituent part of the army is considered from structure to equipage and operations in relationship to the French forces which opposed them. Oman's examination of the British Army of the early nineteenth century is now regarded as a classic. This Leonaur edition is unique since it includes 40 illustrations and maps which did not appear in the original edition of the book. Oman devoted two chapters to his bibliographical sources and though they remain in this edition, since their content is fascinating and invaluable, they have been moved from the beginning to the end of the book in the interest of accessibility to the principal subject of the work. 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 Wellington's Army 1809-1814 (Illustrated Edition) by : Charles Oman
Download or read book Wellington's Army 1809-1814 (Illustrated Edition) written by Charles Oman and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman, KBE (1860-1946) was a British military historian. He was born in India, the son of a tea planater, and educated at Winchester College and Oxford University. In 1881 he was elected to a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College where he remained for the rest of his academic career, becoming the Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1905. He served as President of the Royal Historical Society from 1917-21 and was employed by the government's Press Bureau and the Foreign Office during the First World War. From 1919-35 he was the Conservative MP for the University of Oxford constituency and was knighted in 1920. He was the author of numerous works on military history and his reconstructions of mediaeval battles from fragmentary accounts were considered pioneering. This book was first published in 1912 and is reprinted from the second impression of 1913. Illustrated with eight full-page plates.
Download or read book Napoleonic Wars written by Ian Fletcher and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major series of books that provides the most authoritative information on the uniforms and equipment worn by the great armies of the past. Each book is written by a noted authority on the subject and is lavishly illustrated with over 150 color and black-and-white illustrations. Ian Fletcher describes the reality of life in Wellington's army, from the wear-and-tear on uniforms, to the equipment used by each unit.
Book Synopsis The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies. By the Author of “Stories of Waterloo” [i.e. William Hamilton Maxwell] ... New Edition by : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Download or read book The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies. By the Author of “Stories of Waterloo” [i.e. William Hamilton Maxwell] ... New Edition written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Armies of Wellington by : Philip J. Haythornthwaite
Download or read book The Armies of Wellington written by Philip J. Haythornthwaite and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armies of Wellington is the most comprehensive account ever published of the effect of this one man on the British Army during the Napoleonic era. This profusely illustrated study by Philip IIaythornthwaite sets out to demonstrate Wellington's flexibility by showing the changes he employed in the various theatres in which he was active. It is not simply another biography but an assessment of how he altered the structure and equipment of his troops for each of his campaigns.
Book Synopsis The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index by : Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.)
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