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Total Pages : 844 pages
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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Oman
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Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book Wellington's Army, 1809-1814 written by Charles Oman and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Page
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021247X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Guitar in Georgian England written by Christopher Page and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating social history of the guitar, reasserting its long-forgotten importance in Romantic England This book is the first to explore the popularity and novelty of the guitar in Georgian England, noting its impact on the social, cultural, and musical history of the period. The instrument possessed an imagery as rich as its uses were varied; it emerged as a potent symbol of Romanticism and was incorporated into poetry, portraiture, and drama. In addition, British and Irish soldiers returning from war in Spain and Portugal brought with them knowledge of the Spanish guitar and its connotations of stylish masculinity. Christopher Page presents entirely new scholarship in order to place the guitar within a multifaceted context, drawing from recently digitized original source material. The Guitar in Georgian England champions an instrument whose importance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is often overlooked.
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Total Pages : 1568 pages
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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1636 pages
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Download or read book The Athenæum written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Thompson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399048457
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The British Cheer written by Paul Thompson and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a bold, painstakingly researched and wide-ranging assessment of the British Cheer in the Napoleonic era. Reference to the Cheer in accounts of the time is virtually ubiquitous and repeatedly the claim was made for cheering as an integral part of British offensive operations. However, more recent historians have tended to overlook this evidence. Based upon a vast range of contemporary sources, this book suggests that the Cheer wielded genuine power as a true 'weapon of war'. This book first surveys the history of acclamations in battle worldwide and British battle-cries from all periods, before addressing the question of what the British Cheer actually sounded like. Issues of acoustics, physics and the psychology of battlefield morale are considered, along with commentaries from significant military scholars throughout history. Examination of the Napoleonic-era Cheer then reveals the practically invincible 'recipe' of volley-cheer-charge that propelled the British Army to victory upon victory. Comparison is drawn with French and other national patterns of vocalizing, along with analysis of those occasions when the Cheer might be suppressed. Finally, the attitude of the Duke of Wellington towards cheering is reconsidered, with surprising results. This study encompasses a vast canvas of place and time in pursuit of the elusive yet galvanizing Cheer: from the Mahratta wars in India, through campaigns in Egypt, the Mediterranean, Flanders, the Caribbean and South America, as well as the war of 1812. The Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns feature prominently as the Cheer is heard thrillingly from Vimeiro to Talavera, Salamanca to Vitoria, Orthez to Toulouse and the shocking siege of Badajoz to the charge of the Scots Greys on the ridge of Mont Saint Jean. Anyone interested in the wars of Revolutionary France and Napoleon, the British army, the career of the Duke of Wellington, or indeed the wider questions of the psychological motivations of combat will find this book illuminating and thought-provoking.
Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
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Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ... written by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A List of the Principal Publications Issued from New Burlington Street written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Collins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 152670370X
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Wellington and the Siege of San Sebastian, 1813 written by Bruce Collins and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Collins's in-depth reassessment of the Duke of Wellington's siege of San Sebastian during the Peninsular War is a fascinating reconstruction of one of the most challenging siege operations Wellington's army undertook, and it is an important contribution to the history of siege warfare during the Napoleonic Wars. He sets the siege in the context of the practice of siege warfare during the period and Wellington's campaign strategies following his victory at the Battle of Vitoria. He focuses on how the army assigned to the siege was managed and draws on the records of the main military departments for the first time to give an integrated picture of its operations in the field. The close support given by the Royal Navy is a key aspect of his narrative. This broad approach, based in fresh archive research, offers an original perspective on both San Sebastian's significance and the nature of siege warfare in this period.
Author : David Buttery
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1781597154
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Wellington Against Massena written by David Buttery and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wellington's clash with Massena was one of the most remarkable contests between two commanders in the Peninsular War. These two formidable generals carried on a campaign of maneuver, battle and attrition across Spain and Portugal in 1810 and 1811 which had a decisive impact on the outcome of the war. Wellington's reputation was enhanced, Massena's was ruined.David Buttery's close analysis of this extraordinary encounter offers a penetrating insight into the personalities of these two outstanding soldiers. Using a variety of sources, in particular eyewitness accounts from both sides, he reassesses the famous confrontations at Ciudad Rodrigo, Almeida, Busaco, the lines of Torres Vedras and the final bitterly fought battle at Fuentes de Ooro.He sheds new light on this pivotal episode in the Napoleonic Wars and his account corrects the one-sided view of the campaign that has survived to the present day. In particular he reconsiders the true cost of the scorched earth policy that was employed against the French
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521255905
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (559 download)
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 4, 1847-1850 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's are made available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. Letter-writing was of crucial importance to Darwin's work, not only because his poor health isolated him from direct personal communication with his scientific colleagues but also because the nature of his investigations required communication with naturalists in many fields and in all quarters of the globe. Thus the letters are a mine of information about the work in progress of a creative genius who produced an intellectual revolution." --
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Total Pages : 1288 pages
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Download or read book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Edwards (Firm)
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Total Pages : 748 pages
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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 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maggs Bros
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Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Divall
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783378662
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Wellington's Worst Scrape written by Carole Divall and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disastrous retreat and near disintegration of Sir John Moores army on the road to Corunna in 1809 is traditionally regarded as the low point in the history of the British intervention in the Peninsular War. Yet under the Duke of Wellington, the British and their allies suffered defeats and retreats that tend to be overshadowed by the series of victories that eventually drove the French from Portugal and Spain. None of these setbacks was graver than the retreat that followed the disastrous failure of the siege of Burgos in 1812. It is this, less than glorious, phase of the Peninsular campaign that is the subject of Carole Divalls latest study of the British army of the Napoleonic Wars.By reconstructing events in close detail, and by bringing together [many] primary sources, she gives a vivid account of what happened and why. Wellington himself recognized the mistakes and miscalculations that led to the potentially catastrophic situation in which he placed his men. He described it as his worst scrape. Yet most of the letters, journals and memoirs that have survived praise the skill with which he saved Britain's only army from disaster. Carole Divall weaves together Wellingtons dispatches with the eyewitness testimony left by British and Portuguese officers and men, by civilians, and by the French. A fascinating, multi-layered impression emerges of the siege of Burgos itself and the sequence of maneuvers that preceded it. She describes in authentic detail the tense decision-making and the misjudgments that were made on the allied side and the headlong retreat that followed as the British fled from two French armies that threatened to trap and destroy them.Carole Divalls in-depth study of a pivotal and neglected episode in the Peninsular War gives a fascinating insight into the character of the fighting, at every level, and into the strengths and weaknesses of Wellingtons command.
Author : Maggs Bros
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Total Pages : 868 pages
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Download or read book Maggs Bros. Catalogues written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow
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Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in General Literature in the Library of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow written by Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
