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Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
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Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies written by William Hamilton Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
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Total Pages : 560 pages
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Download or read book The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies by the Author of Stories of Waterloo, The Bivouac, The Life of Wellington, Etc written by William Hamilton Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
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Total Pages : 528 pages
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Download or read book The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies written by William Hamilton Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007383495
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Wellington: The Iron Duke (Text Only) written by Richard Holmes and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling book, Richard Holmes tells the exhilarating story of the Duke of Wellington, Britain's greatest ever soldier.
Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies, etc written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
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Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book The Victories of the British Armies written by William Hamilton Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward J Coss
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185457
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book All for the King's Shilling written by Edward J Coss and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded by the duke’s own words—“scum of the earth”—and assumed to have been society’s ne’er-do-wells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice. Now Edward J. Coss shows to the contrary that most of these redcoats were respectable laborers and tradesmen and that it was mainly their working-class status that prompted the duke’s derision. Driven into the army by unemployment in the wake of Britain’s industrial revolution, they confronted wartime hardship with ethical values and became formidable soldiers in the bargain These men depended on the king’s shilling for survival, yet pay was erratic and provisions were scant. Fed worse even than sixteenth-century Spanish galley slaves, they often marched for days without adequate food; and if during the campaign they did steal from Portuguese and Spanish civilians, the theft was attributable not to any criminal leanings but to hunger and the paltry rations provided by the army. Coss draws on a comprehensive database on British soldiers as well as first-person accounts of Peninsular War participants to offer a better understanding of their backgrounds and daily lives. He describes how these neglected and abused soldiers came to rely increasingly on the emotional and physical support of comrades and developed their own moral and behavioral code. Their cohesiveness, Coss argues, was a major factor in their legendary triumphs over Napoleon’s battle-hardened troops. The first work to closely examine the social composition of Wellington’s rank and file through the lens of military psychology, All for the King’s Shilling transcends the Napoleonic battlefield to help explain the motivation and behavior of all soldiers under the stress of combat.
Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781347276297
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (762 download)
Download or read book The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies. by the Author of Stories of Waterloo ... Etc written by William Hamilton Maxwell and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 552 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 : William Hamilton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484261555
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies (Classic Reprint) written by William Hamilton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies The history of military nations exhibits periods of disaster and success, when good and evil fortune, as if ruled by a fatality, prevail. With some, in every essay, conquest crowns their arms; while the bravest efforts of others terminate ia variably in defeat. Again, the best measures fail to obtain success, - mischances follow thick upon each other, -posses sions are lost, - power declines, - and a name, before which a world once trembled, becomes a by-word, and is rarely used but to mark the mutability of national prosperity. 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 : W. H. (William Hamilton) 1792 Maxwell
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781372686856
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (868 download)
Download or read book VICTORIES OF WELLINGTON & THE written by W. H. (William Hamilton) 1792 Maxwell and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 552 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 : sir James Edward Alexander
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Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Life of ... the duke of Wellington written by sir James Edward Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin R. Howard
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1473894484
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Wellington and the British Army's Indian Campaigns, 1798–1805 written by Martin R. Howard and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “superb account of the British Army under Wellington in India reads like one of Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe novels, or, better still, a Flashman novel” (Books Monthly). The Peninsular War and the Napoleonic Wars across Europe are subjects of such enduring interest that they have prompted extensive research and writing. Yet other campaigns, in what was a global war, have been largely ignored. Such is the case for the war in India which persisted for much of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods and peaked in the years 1798-1805 with the campaigns of Arthur Wellesley—later the Duke of Wellington—and General Lake in the Deccan and Hindustan. That is why this new study by Martin Howard is so timely and important. While it fully acknowledges Wellington’s vital role, it also addresses the nature of the warring armies, the significance of the campaigns of Lake in North India, and leaves the reader with an understanding of the human experience of war in the region. For this was a brutal conflict in which British armies clashed with the formidable forces of the Sultan of Mysore and the Maratha princes. There were dramatic pitched battles at Assaye, Argaum, Delhi and Laswari, and epic sieges at Seringapatam, Gawilghur and Bhurtpore. The British success was not universal. “An absorbing account of Wellesley/Lord Wellington which shows how his actions in India had a significant effect on the development of the British Empire and events through to the modern era.—Highly Recommended.” —Firetrench “An eye opener on the power and influence of the East India Company at this time. A jolly good read.” —Clash of Steel
Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 336875114X
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (687 download)
Download or read book The Victories of the British Armies With Anecdotes Illustrative of Modern Warfare written by William Hamilton Maxwell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
Author : Charles Mac Farlane
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Great Battles of the British Army written by Charles Mac Farlane and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir William Hamilton Maxwell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782890386
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Victories Of The British Armies — written by Sir William Hamilton Maxwell and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Army gained a coalesced identity and a European reputation from its exploits in the Peninsular War against the much vaunted French army. A veteran of the fighting himself, Sir William recounts the exploits and deeds of the British army from the battle-fields strewn across Portugal and Spain. Written in rollicking style, the anecdotes of Barossa, Vimiero, Talavera, Fuentes D’Oñoro, Salamanca and Vittoria still remain of fresh interest to this day. Sir William Hamilton Maxwell was a Scots-Irish novelist, noted for his many works in both fiction and non-fiction, and a frequent contributor to the periodicals of the time. His three-volume biography of the Duke of Wellington and his stories of Waterloo are still quoted as authoritative today. This first volume brings the action from 1808 to 1812. Author — Maxwell, Sir William Hamilton, 1792-1850. Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in London, Henry G. Bohn, 1847. Original Page Count – xi and 406 pages.
Author : Ian Fletcher
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Desperate Business written by Ian Fletcher and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 'desperate business' was how the Duke of Wellington described the Battle of Waterloo following the Allied victory there on 18 June 1815. Here, historian Ian Fletcher tells the story of the Waterloo Campaign and illustrates just how desperate the battle was, with Wellington's Anglo-Dutch army hanging on grimly to the ridge at Mont St Jean until their Prussian allies arrived to put the seal on one of the most decisive victories in military history. A Desperate Business differs from many of the books on Waterloo for two reasons; first, it tells the story, not only of the three days' battle from 15 to 18 June, but of the entire campaign, from its beginning in March 1815, right up to the Allie's entrance into Paris three months later. Second, whilst acknowledging the part played by their Dutch-Belgian, Hanoverian and Prussian allies, it sets out to tell the story from the point of view of Wellington and the British Army only. Making extensive use of eye-witness accounts, the book examines how the British Army, a pale shadow of that which had served in the Peninsula, fared against the French Army in what was the first and only encounter between the two great commanders of the age, Wellington and Napoleon.
Author : Army
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Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The great battles of the British army written by Army and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
