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Book Synopsis Wellington's Foot Guards at Waterloo by : Robert Burnham
Download or read book Wellington's Foot Guards at Waterloo written by Robert Burnham and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Waterloo Campaign, Wellington had only one division that was composed entirely of British infantry, the 1st Division. This consisted of two brigades of the most famous regiments of the British Army the three regiments of Guards.The exploits of the Guards at Waterloo have passed into legend. On that day, Wellington entrusted the most crucial part of his line to the men he knew would hold their position at all cost. That vital position was the Chteau d'Hougoumont, and those men were the Guards.As the great battle unfolded, the French threw more and more troops at the walls of Hougoumont, setting some of the Chteaus buildings on fire and almost forcing their way in through its northern gateway. Though almost an entire French corps was engaged in the struggle for Hougoumont, the detachment of the Guards valiantly resisted every attack.Then, as the battle reached its climax, Napoleon launched his Imperial Guard at the centre of Wellingtons line. Just as the French believed that victory was in their grasp, up stood the 1st Guards Brigade to deliver a devastating volley, followed by a ferocious bayonet charge from which the French never recovered.The experienced duo of Robert Burnham and Ron McGuigan have compiled the first comprehensive study of the Guards Division throughout the entire Waterloo campaign, from the initial deployment in Belgium to the Occupation of Paris. The book also includes an explanation of the organisation and composition of the two brigades and personal details of many of the Guards officers the men who saved the day at Waterloo.
Book Synopsis All for the King's Shilling by : Edward J Coss
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.
Book Synopsis The Wellington Experience by : David O. Smith
Download or read book The Wellington Experience written by David O. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the observations of U.S. military personnel who attended India's Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) at Wellington. Although the DSSC is a tri-service professional military education institution, this study focuses primarily on the Indian Army, the largest and most influentialmilitary service in India. Collectively, U.S. personnel at the DSSC had sustained interactionsover an extended period of time with three distinct groups of Indian Army officers: seniorofficers (brigadier through lieutenant general), senior midlevel (lieutenant colonel and colonel),and junior midlevel (captain and major). The study focuses on the attitudes and values of theIndian Army officer corps over a 38-year period, from 1979 to 2017, to determine if there waschange over time, and if so, to understand the drivers of that change.
Book Synopsis Wellington's Officers by : Douglas Herbert Bell
Download or read book Wellington's Officers written by Douglas Herbert Bell and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington ... in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809 to 1814 by : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Download or read book The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington ... in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809 to 1814 written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selections from the general orders of ... the Duke of Wellington during his various commands (1799-1818). Compiled by Col. Gurwood by : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Download or read book Selections from the general orders of ... the Duke of Wellington during his various commands (1799-1818). Compiled by Col. Gurwood written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington in Portugal, Spain and France from 1809 to 1814, and in the Low Countries and France 1815 and in France, Army of Occupation, from 1816 to 1818 by : Arthur Wellesley of Wellington
Download or read book The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington in Portugal, Spain and France from 1809 to 1814, and in the Low Countries and France 1815 and in France, Army of Occupation, from 1816 to 1818 written by Arthur Wellesley of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington ... in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809-to 1814 by : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Download or read book The General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington ... in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809-to 1814 written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wellington's Officers by : Stuart Reid
Download or read book Wellington's Officers written by Stuart Reid and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, During His Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France by : Arthur Wellesley of Wellington
Download or read book The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, During His Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France written by Arthur Wellesley of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wellington: The Iron Duke (Text Only) by : Richard Holmes
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.
Book Synopsis The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington by : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Download or read book The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington by : Arthur Wellesley
Download or read book The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington written by Arthur Wellesley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed collection of various military documents written by the Duke of Wellington throughout his career.
Book Synopsis Wellington's Officers Series by : Constance Hampton Jones
Download or read book Wellington's Officers Series written by Constance Hampton Jones and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wellington's American General by : Nicholas Fogg
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.
Book Synopsis Wellington's Officers by : Stuart Reid
Download or read book Wellington's Officers written by Stuart Reid and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wellington's Headquarters by : S G P Ward
Download or read book Wellington's Headquarters written by S G P Ward and published by Pen & Sword Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wellington's Headquarters is an essential introduction to the administration of the British army in the early nineteenth century. It offers a fascinating insight into the structure and operation of the Duke of Wellington's command during the Peninsular War. S.G.P. Ward's classic study, first published over sixty years ago, describes the complicated tangle of departments that administered the army, departments which had grown up haphazard and survived virtually unchanged until the time of the Crimean War. Wellington adapted the existing system in order to turn it into an efficient instrument in the war against Napoleon, despite clashes of responsibility and personality that frustrated him and impaired the army's performance on campaign. Chapters cover peacetime and wartime administration, the relationships of the staff officers, the supply and maintenance of the army in the Peninsula, the gathering and interpretation of intelligence, the organization of the army on the march and the sometimes tense relations between Wellington and his subordinates. The study raises the quartermaster general's department to its proper position, and discusses Wellington's attitude to the 'chief of staff' system which was then favored on the continent. The result of this lucid and absorbing survey is an enhanced understanding of the system that had evolved to administer the British army two hundred years ago.
