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Book Synopsis Wellington Against Soult by : David Buttery
Download or read book Wellington Against Soult written by David Buttery and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of David Butterys third book on the Peninsular War lies the comparison between two great commanders of enormous experience and reputation Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, and Jean de Dieu Soult. In Soult, Wellesley met one of his most formidable opponents and they confronted each other during one of the most remarkable, and neglected, of the Peninsular campaigns. Soults invasion of Portugal is rarely studied in great depth and, likewise, the offensive Wellesley launched, which defeated and expelled the French, has also received scant coverage. As well as giving a fresh insight into the contrasting characters of the two generals, the narrative offers a gripping and detailed, reconstruction of the organization and experience of a military campaign 200 years ago.
Book Synopsis Wellington's Wars by : Huw J. Davies
Download or read book Wellington's Wars written by Huw J. Davies and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate--and controversial--new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career. Unlike his nemesis Napoleon, Wellington was by no means a man of innate military talent, Huw J. Davies argues. Instead, the key to Wellington's military success was an exceptionally keen understanding of the relationship between politics and war.Drawing on extensive primary research, Davies discusses Wellington's military apprenticeship in India, where he learned through mistakes as well as successes how to plan campaigns, organize and use intelligence, and negotiate with allies. In India Wellington encountered the constant political machinations of indigenous powers, and it was there that he apprenticed in the crucial skill of balancing conflicting political priorities. In later campaigns and battles, including the Peninsular War and Waterloo, Wellington's genius for strategy, operations, and tactics emerged. For his success in the art of war, he came to rely on his art as a politician and tactician. This strikingly original book shows how Wellington made even unlikely victories possible--with a well-honed political brilliance that underpinned all of his military achievements.
Book Synopsis To War with Wellington by : Peter Snow
Download or read book To War with Wellington written by Peter Snow and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seven-year campaign that saved Europe from Napoleon told by those who were there. What made Arthur Duke of Wellington the military genius who was never defeated in battle? In the vivid narrative style that is his trademark, Peter Snow recalls how Wellington evolved from a backward, sensitive schoolboy into the aloof but brilliant commander. He tracks the development of Wellington's leadership and his relationship with the extraordinary band of men he led from Portugal in 1808 to their final destruction of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo seven years. Having described his soldiers as the 'scum of the earth' Wellington transformed them into the finest fighting force of their time. Digging deep into the rich treasure house of diaries and journals that make this war the first in history to be so well recorded, Snow examines how Wellington won the devotion of generals such as the irascible Thomas Picton and the starry but reckless 'Black Bob' Crauford and soldiers like Rifleman Benjamin Harris and Irishman Ned Costello. Through many first-hand accounts, Snow brings to life the horrors and all of the humanity of life in and out of battle, as well as shows the way that Wellington mastered the battlefield to outsmart the French and change the future of Europe. To War with Wellington is the gripping account of a very human story about a remarkable leader and his men.
Book Synopsis Wellington's Lieutenants by : Alexander Innes Shand
Download or read book Wellington's Lieutenants written by Alexander Innes Shand and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wellington's Campaigns by : Charles Walker Robinson
Download or read book Wellington's Campaigns written by Charles Walker Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The popular encyclopedia; or, "Conversations lexicon;" being a general dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, biography, and history. With ... illustrations by : Encyclopaedias
Download or read book The popular encyclopedia; or, "Conversations lexicon;" being a general dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, biography, and history. With ... illustrations written by Encyclopaedias and published by . This book was released on with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France by : William Francis Patrick Napier
Download or read book History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France written by William Francis Patrick Napier and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Wellington by : Sir Herbert Maxwell
Download or read book The Life of Wellington written by Sir Herbert Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis A New History of Great Britain by : Robert Balmain Mowat
Download or read book A New History of Great Britain written by Robert Balmain Mowat and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Europe, from the Commencement of the French Revolution, in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815 by : Sir Archibald Alison
Download or read book History of Europe, from the Commencement of the French Revolution, in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815 written by Sir Archibald Alison and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Napoleon and Wellington by : Andrew Roberts
Download or read book Napoleon and Wellington written by Andrew Roberts and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual biography of the greatest opposing generals of their age who ultimately became fixated on one another, by a bestselling historian. 'Thoroughly enjoyable, beautifully written and meticulously researched' Observer On the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could not fail to win an easy victory. Forever afterwards historians have accused him of gross overconfidence, and massively underestimating the calibre of the British commander opposed to him. Andrew Roberts presents an original, highly revisionist view of the relationship between the two greatest captains of their age. Napoleon, who was born in the same year as Wellington - 1769 - fought Wellington by proxy years earlier in the Peninsula War, praising his ruthlessness in private while publicly deriding him as a mere 'sepoy general'. In contrast, Wellington publicly lauded Napoleon, saying that his presence on a battlefield was worth forty thousand men, but privately wrote long memoranda lambasting Napoleon's campaigning techniques. Although Wellington saved Napoleon from execution after Waterloo, Napoleon left money in his will to the man who had tried to assassinate Wellington. Wellington in turn amassed a series of Napoleonic trophies of his great victory, even sleeping with two of the Emperor's mistresses.
Book Synopsis Wellington's Career by : Edward Bruce Hamley
Download or read book Wellington's Career written by Edward Bruce Hamley and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815 by : Alison
Download or read book History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815 written by Alison and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Encyclopaedia Britannica by : Thomas Spencer Baynes
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of National Biography by : Leslie Stephen
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
