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Author : Edward Bruce Hamley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
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:
Author : Huw J. Davies
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300165404
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
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.
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 : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0586091092
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Wellington written by Christopher Hibbert and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1998 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single volume study of Wellington's life and times is based on modern research. Wellington achieved fame as a soldier fighting the Mahratta in India. His later brilliant generalship fighting the French in Spain was rewarded by a dukedom and a grant from the house of Commons which would today be worth some u8 million. After his defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo he embarked on his second career as a politician. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the army for life, became Prime Minister in 1827 and a byword for High Toryism while presiding over the emancipation of Roman Catholics and the formation of the country's first police force. Unhappily married, he had several mistresses and many intimate friendships with women."
Author : George E. Jaycock
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526733544
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Wellington's Command written by George E. Jaycock and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-01-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military historian assesses the leadership style of the man who defeated Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington’s victory at the Battle of Waterloo cemented his reputation as a great general, and much subsequent writing on his career has taken an uncritical, sometimes chauvinistic view of his talents. Little has been published that fully pins down the reality of Wellington’s leadership, clearly identifying his weaknesses as well as his strengths. George E. Jaycock, in this perceptive and thought-provoking reassessment, does not aim to undermine Wellington’s achievements, but to provide a more nuanced perspective. He clarifies some simple but fundamental truths regarding his leadership and his performance as a commander. Through an in-depth study of his actions over the war years of 1808 to 1815, the author reassesses Wellington’s effectiveness as a commander, the competence of his subordinates, and the qualities of the troops he led. His study gives a fascinating insight into Wellington’s career and abilities. Wellington’s Command is absorbing reading for both military historians and those with an interest in the Napoleonic period.
Author : Rory Muir
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187866
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Wellington written by Rory Muir and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Duke of Wellington was Britain's greatest soldier, whose victories turned the tide of Napoleon's conquests and played a crucial role in his downfall. Wellington went on to be a major figure in British politics, twice serving as Prime Minister. Often the centre of controversy, he was at times feted and celebrated as a national hero, at others reviled in the press and abused in the streets. He was a far more complicated man than the paragon of virtue celebrated by Victorian biographers. Rory Muir's masterly new biography, the first of a two volume set, is the result of thirty years research into the Duke of Wellington and his times. The author brings Wellington into much sharper focus than ever before, critically examining every aspect of his life from his unhappy childhood, his baptism into British and Irish politics and his remarkable successes in India, to the setbacks and triumphs of the Peninsular War. This is the first biography to address the significance of Wellington's political connections and the way they both helped and hindered his campaigns" -- jacket description.
Author : John Kenneth Severn
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806138107
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Architects of Empire written by John Kenneth Severn and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soldier and statesman for the ages, the Duke of Wellington is a towering figure in world history. John Severn now offers a fresh look at the man born Arthur Wellesley to show that his career was very much a family affair, a lifelong series of interactions with his brothers and their common Anglo-Irish heritage. The untold story of a great family drama, Architects of Empire paints a new picture of the era through the collective biography of Wellesley and his siblings. Severn takes readers from the British Raj in India to the battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars to the halls of Parliament as he traces the rise of the five brothers from obscurity to prominence. Severn covers both the imperial Indian period before 1800 and the domestic political period after 1820, describing the wide range of experiences Arthur and his brothers lived through. Architects of Empire brings together in a single volume a grand story that before now was discernible only through political or military analysis. Weaving the personal history of the brothers into a captivating narrative, it tells of sibling rivalry among men who were by turns generous and supportive, then insensitive and cruel. Whereas other historians have minimized the importance of family ties, Severn provides an unusually nuanced understanding of the Duke of Wellington. Architects of Empire casts his career in a new light--one that will surprise those who believe they already know the man.
Author : Rory Muir
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300198604
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Wellington written by Rory Muir and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading Wellington historian’s fascinating reassessment of the Iron Duke’s most famous victory and his role in the turbulent politics after Waterloo. For Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, his momentous victory over Napoleon was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington’s achievements were far from over: he commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat in Lord Liverpool’s cabinet, and became prime minister in 1828. He later served as a senior minister in Peel’s government and remained commander-in-chief of the army for a decade until his death in 1852. In this richly detailed work, the second and concluding volume of Rory Muir’s definitive biography, the author offers a substantial reassessment of Wellington’s significance as a politician and a nuanced view of the private man behind the legend of the selfless hero. Muir presents new insights into Wellington’s determination to keep peace at home and abroad, achieved by maintaining good relations with the Continental powers and resisting radical agitation while granting political equality to the Catholics in Ireland rather than risk civil war. And countering one-dimensional pictures of Wellington as a national hero, Muir paints a portrait of a well-rounded man whose austere demeanor on the public stage belied his entertaining, gossipy, generous, and unpretentious private self. “[An] authoritative and enjoyable conclusion to a two-part biography.” —Lawrence James, Times (London) “Muir conveys the military, political, social and personal sides of Wellington’s career with equal brilliance. This will be the leading work on the subject for decades.” —Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon and Wellington: The Long Duel
Author : Thomas Dwight Veve
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Duke of Wellington and the British Army of Occupation in France, 1815-1818 written by Thomas Dwight Veve and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-07-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexamined aspect of the career of the Duke of Wellington--his command of allied forces occupying France--serves as the focus of this work. Veve traces the history of the 1815-1818 occupation and the significant role that Wellington played in making the first multinational peacekeeping force a success.
Author : Nicholas Fogg
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398102601
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Wellington's American General written by Nicholas Fogg and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the journals of a New Yorker who would become one of Wellington’s senior generals, the story of a remarkable military career from The American War of Independence to the Peninsula, Tobago and Canada.
Author : Peter Snow
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781848541047
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)
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.
Author : William THOMSON (Gardener to the Duke of Buccleuch.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book A practical treatise on the cultivation of the grape vine ... Third edition written by William THOMSON (Gardener to the Duke of Buccleuch.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Grape Vine written by William Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander William Kinglake
Publisher : Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (186 download)
Download or read book The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan written by Alexander William Kinglake and published by Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood. This book was released on 1863 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Forbes R. comte de Montalembert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The monks of the West from st. Benedict to st. Bernard written by Charles Forbes R. comte de Montalembert and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Pine-apple written by David Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lectures on Logic written by William Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
