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Book Synopsis Wellington's Two-Front War by : Joshua Moon
Download or read book Wellington's Two-Front War written by Joshua Moon and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Arthur Wellesley's 1808–1814 campaigns against Napoleon's forces in the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for two centuries. Yet, until now, no study has focused on the problems that Wellesley, later known as the Duke of Wellington, encountered on the home front before his eventual triumph beyond the Pyrenees. In Wellington's Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellington's command of British forces against the French but also describes the battles Wellington fought in England—with an archaic military command structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion. In this detailed and accessible account, Moon traces Wellington's command of British forces during the six years of warfare against the French. Almost immediately upon landing in Portugal in 1808, Wellington was hampered by his government's struggle to plan a strategy for victory. From that point on, Moon argues, the military's outdated promotion system, political maneuvering, and bureaucratic inertia—all subject to public opinion and a hostile press—thwarted Wellington's efforts, almost costing him the victory. Drawing on archival sources in the United Kingdom and at the United States Military Academy, Moon goes well beyond detailing military operations to delve into the larger effects of domestic policies, bureaucracy, and coalition building on strategy. Ultimately, Moon shows, the second front of Wellington's "two-front war" was as difficult as the better-known struggle against Napoleon's troops and harsh conditions abroad. As this book demonstrates, it was only through strategic vision and relentless determination that Wellington attained the hard-fought victory. Moon's multifaceted examination of the commander and his frustrations offers valuable insight into the complexities of fighting faraway battles under the scrutiny at home of government agencies and the press—issues still relevant today.
Book Synopsis The Campaigns of Wellington by : H. W. Montagu
Download or read book The Campaigns of Wellington written by H. W. Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vittoria 1813 written by Ian Fletcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later Wellington's series of brilliant manoeuvres threw the French onto the defensive on all fronts, culminating in the final victory at Vittoria: 90,000 men and 90 guns attacking in four mutually supporting columns. The French centre gave way and both flanks were turned, their army finally breaking in flight towards Pamplona. Any French hopes of maintaining their position in the Peninsular were crushed forever. On 7 October the British set foot on the 'sacred soil' of' Napoleon's France.
Book Synopsis Wellington's Campaigns, Peninsula - Waterloo, 1808-15 by : Charles Walker Robinson
Download or read book Wellington's Campaigns, Peninsula - Waterloo, 1808-15 written by Charles Walker Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Life and Campaigns of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K.G. ... by : George Newenham Wright
Download or read book Life and Campaigns of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K.G. ... written by George Newenham Wright and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 590 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:
Author :Maj.-Gen. Sir C. W. Robinson Publisher :Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN 13 :1789121663 Total Pages :491 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (891 download)
Book Synopsis Wellington's Campaigns, Peninsula-Waterloo, 1808-15 by : Maj.-Gen. Sir C. W. Robinson
Download or read book Wellington's Campaigns, Peninsula-Waterloo, 1808-15 written by Maj.-Gen. Sir C. W. Robinson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, first published in 1907, all three parts of Wellington’s Campaigns, hitherto published separately, are brought out together in one volume. The consolidated volume covers all campaigns fought during the Peninsula War in Portugal, Spain, and the South of France between 1808 and 1814 and concludes with the Waterloo campaign in 1815. It also contains an additional Appendix concerning the influence of certain Spanish operations and special circumstances in Spain upon the movements of Moore and Wellington. Richly illustrated throughout with sketch maps and plans.
Download or read book Salamanca 1812 written by Ian Fletcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salamanca was the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War. Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at Garcia Hernandez. There would be two more years of sieges and hard fighting before the Iron Duke crossed the Pyrenees into France but from Salamanca the British and their Portuguese and Spanish allies always had the upper hand. Ian Fletcher examines this important battle in detail and also discusses the campaign which led up to it.
Book Synopsis Wellington's Campaigns, Peninsula-Waterloo, 1808-15 by : Charles Walker Robinson
Download or read book Wellington's Campaigns, Peninsula-Waterloo, 1808-15 written by Charles Walker Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 1815, the Waterloo Campaign : the German Victory by : Peter Hofschröer
Download or read book 1815, the Waterloo Campaign : the German Victory written by Peter Hofschröer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Demonstrates the decisive German contribution to victory at Waterloo -- Unpublished German eyewitness accounts and regimental reports -- Covers the battles of Waterloo, Wavre and the taking of Paris Peter Hofschroer, in this second volume of his masterly study of 1815, challenges the accepted version of events at the battle of Waterloo. He demonstrates convincingly that Allied victory was due not to steadfast British infantry repelling the French, but to the timely arrival of Prussian troops who stole victory from Napoleon and sealed the fate of the last Grande Armee. Drawing on previously unpublished accounts, Hofschroer gives not only the Prussian perspective of their march to Waterloo and decisive attack on Napoleon's flank, but also details of the actions fought by some of the 25,000 Germans in Wellington's 'British' army -- more than a third of the Duke's force. A gripping narrative of astonishing detail captures such key episodes of Waterloo as La Haye Sainte, Papelotte, Hougoumont and the Prussian struggle with the Imperial Guard for Plancenoit. In addition, Hofschroer examines the battle at Wavre, the Allied offensive into France, the taking of Paris and the sieges across northern France. 1815: The Waterloo Campaign-The German Victory is a definitive work on an epic confrontation by one of today's leading military writers.
Book Synopsis Wellington and the British Army's Indian Campaigns 1798 - 1805 by : Martin R Howard
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 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Campaigns of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, Etc. Etc by : Robert Southey
Download or read book Campaigns of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, Etc. Etc written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wellington's Campaigns, Penisula-Waterloo, 1808-15: 1808-11. Rolei to Albuhera by : Charles Walker Robinson
Download or read book Wellington's Campaigns, Penisula-Waterloo, 1808-15: 1808-11. Rolei to Albuhera written by Charles Walker Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Peninsular War by : Ian Fletcher
Download or read book The Peninsular War written by Ian Fletcher and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994 Ian Fletcher published his book Fields of Fire, which was the first book to show Wellingtons Peninsular War battlefields in full color. Now, almost 20 years on, he returns with a second book, The Peninsular War: Wellingtons Battlefields Revisited which shows how things have changed since 1994. The beautiful photographs cover all of Wellingtons major battles, and many smaller engagements also, to show them in all their glory, from the snowy Galician mountains, to the dry, dusty plain of Salamanca, and from the low rolling slopes of Albuera to the breathtaking Pyrenees. Coming as it does in the middle of the 200th anniversary of the Peninsular War, this book is a timely reminder of one of the most successful campaigns ever fought by the British Army.
Book Synopsis A guide to the diorama of the campaigns of Wellington by : Richard Ford
Download or read book A guide to the diorama of the campaigns of Wellington written by Richard Ford and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.