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Author : Andrew Halliday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNT:BT300003781
Author : William Siborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
ISBN : HARVARD:32044022702583
Author : John Hussey
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784381981
This, the fourth volume in Andrew Field's highly praised study of the Waterloo campaign from the French perspective, depicts in vivid detail the often neglected final phase the rout and retreat of Napoleon's army. The text is based exclusively on French eyewitness accounts which give an inside view of the immediate aftermath of the battle and carry the story through to the army's disbandment in late 1815. Many French officers and soldiers wrote more about the retreat than they did about the catastrophe of Waterloo itself. Their recollections give a fascinating insight to the psyche of the French soldier. They also provide a firsthand record of their experiences and the range of their reactions, from those who deserted the colors and made their way home, to those who continued to serve faithfully when all was lost. Napoleons own flight from Waterloo is an essential part of the narrative, but the main emphasis is on the fate of the beaten French army as it was experienced by eyewitnesses who lived through the last days of the campaign.
Author : John Hussey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784382025
Winner of the 2019 RUSI Duke of Wellington Medal for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Society for Army Historical Research Templer MedalShortlisted for Military History Monthly's "Book of the Year" AwardThe first of two groundbreaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this book is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, and their resolution; it studies the problems of feeding and paying for 250,000 Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the undeclared war, and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the slow and discordant Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blcher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them. Napoleons operational plan is analyzed (and Soult's mistakes in executing it). Accounts from both sides help provide a vivid impression of the fighting on the first day, 15 June, and the volume ends with the joint battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras the next day.
Author : Cavalié Mercer
Publisher : Edinburgh and London W. Blackwood 1870.
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Generals
ISBN : NYPL:33433075890404
The author of this book was commander of 'G' Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, in Wellington's army, who jotted down notes on the events of the day each evening. It is an account of what he saw and felt from leaving Colchester for Belgium on 8 April 1815 to his final return to England at the end of January 1816. It is a remarkable and compelling account, especially of the three days which ended the career of Napoleon.
Author : General Alexander Cavalié Mercer
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908692320
Without doubt, one of the finest accounts of a participant of the Waterloo campaign. Mercer was famously in charge of "G" troop RHA during the campaign, and from the journal he kept at the time, he formed this book. It is written with a jaunty air more often seen in the writings of French cavalry officers memoirs, a certain irreverence to rank and custom (his description of the Duc de Berri is particularly cutting) and a keen eye for detail and the anecdote. This edition is the second volume of a two volume series as originally published. Having been stationed in Belgium for over a month during which time he offers a number of telling remarks on the country and its inhabitants, and their enthusiasm for the conflict, his troop arrived belatedly at the battle of Quatre Bars on the 16th June 1815 as the fighting died down. He was involved in covering the retreat of the Allied forces northward to Waterloo on the 17th. During this retreat Mercer sights Napoleon riding with the vanguard of his advanced forces, as he struggles to cover his retreating comrades, in a moment he refers to as "sublime". During the battle on the 18th his troop is in the thick of the fighting, during which time Mercer's account leaves no detail out, apart from his disobeying Wellington's order to avoid counter-battery fire. As the battle rolls on the magnificent and yet foolhardy charges of the massed French cavalry are recounted with their brave but ultimately futile attempt to break the squares on the ridge, Mercer and his troop pour fire into the horsemen mercilessly. As the Armée du Nord recoils from its final attack in disarray, Mercer is ordered with his men to follow up the retreating hordes, he replies to his superior "How?" as the charnel house surrounding his position contains the dead and dying horses needed to pull his guns. Essential reading. Author - General Alexander Cavalié Mercer (1783-1868)
Author : William Siborne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368280130
Reprint of the original, first published in 1895.
Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Generals
ISBN : 9780743228329
Explores the relationship between the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington prior to and in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, the most decisive battle of the nineteenth century.
Author : John Hussey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784384941
The first of two ground-breaking, prize-winning volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this book is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages.
Author : Andrew Uffindell,Michael Corum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : France
ISBN : 0905778812
Author : William Hay
Publisher : From Reason to Revolution
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1911512323
William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the Peninsula, to Waterloo and, after 1815, to Canada. First commissioned into the crack 52nd Light Infantry - and serving with that regiment in the campaigns of 1810 and 1811 - promotion took him into the 12th Light Dragoons. Afte
Author : Alexander Cavalié Mercer
Publisher : Edinburgh and London W. Blackwood 1870.
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, 1815
ISBN : OCLC:187167911
Author : Cavalie Mercer
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1289551073
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Albert A. Nofi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : France
ISBN : 1853671673
Albert Nofi has used his many years of research to produce an account of the battle of Waterloo that has all the grandeur and military detail one could want, but which never loses its interest in individual human experience. Here Napoleon rides forward to take personal command of a small detachment of French Marines to fight his way across the Sambre river on the way to Waterloo. Hanoverian exiles who have been fighting Napoleon for a decade under English command are surrounded and wiped out in a classic "last stand" at the hour of victory."The Waterloo Campaign" also covers the death of the Duke of Brunswick, the reconciliation of Napoleon and his estranged brother Jerome in the crucible of battle, and the tragic loss and miraculous delivery of many ordinary people.In addition to its popular appeal, Albert Nofi's "The Waterloo Campaign" has found favor with the most demanding of military enthusiasts. "Waterloo" is a Military Book Club Main Selection in the U.S. and has been selected for a special European edition. Special features of "The Waterloo Campaign" include the most complete orders of battle available for the British, French and Prussian armies, a detailed comparison of artillery and musketry capabilities, sidebars profiling many of the personalities of the campaign, weather conditions for each hour of the battle and the best-informed estimates available on unit strengths and casualties, for horses as well as humans, during the campaign.New York educator Albert Nofi appeared frequently as a radio and TV military commentator during the Persian Gulf War, always balancing the grand principles of command against the individual human drama. He is the author of numerous books, including "The Spanish American War 1898, The Marine Corps Book of Lists, " and "The War Against Hitler."
Author : William O'Connor Morris
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1290695148
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