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Author : Robert W. Gould
Publisher : Tom Donovan Publishing Limited
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89056369879
Mercenaries of the Napoleonic War
Author : Guy Dempsey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784380199
This superb and comprehensive book details the foreign units which formed such an important part of Napoleon's forces. It examines each non-French unit in turn, giving an overview of the unit's origins, its organizational and combat history, its uniforms and standards, and details of the unit's eventual fate. Colourful accounts, taken from contemporary reports and memoirs, emphasize the qualities of the unit and throw light on what life was like for many of the foreign soldiers recruited into the Grande Armée. In total more than 100 different foreign units that served in the French Army are investigated in detail in this ambitious publication. Some foreign units fought and flourished throughout the Consulate and Empire, whilst others lasted for just a few months. Covers Polish, German, Swiss, Italian, Spanish, and other units in the French Army and presents a combat history and details uniforms for each regiment. Napoleon's Mercenaries is the best single-volume study of this aspect of Napoleon s army and a vital reference for every Napoleonic enthusiast. Little can be found on the foreign units that were an integral part of the French army ... For a long time a gap has existed, but now Napoleon s Mercenaries fills this gap. Robert Burnham, Napoleonic Series
Author : C.C. Bayley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773592377
Author : John McCormack
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780850523126
The white mercenaries who attracted the world's attention in the Congo during the early 1960s were never more than a few hundred in number. In contrast, no fewer than a million Swiss troops served as mercenaries in the armies of Europe during the preceding 500 years. Swiss mercenaries form a significant strand in the rope of European military history, and this book draws on many French and German-language sources to describe how the Swiss emerged from the isolated valleys of the Alps with a new method of warfare. Their massed columns of pike-carrying infantry were the first foot-soldiers since Roman times who could hold their own against the cavalry. For a brief period at the end of the 15th century the Swiss army appeared unbeatable, and after Swiss independence had been ensured they were hired out as mercenaries throughout Europe. Kings and generals competed to hire these elite combat troops. Nearly half of the million served with the French, their centuries of loyal service culminating with the massacre of the Swiss Guards during the French Revolution. Marlborough, Frederick the Great and Napoleon all hired large numbers of Swiss troops, and three Swiss regiments served in the British Army.
Author : Alistair Nichols
Publisher : From Reason to Revolution
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1804511919
For centuries Swiss regiments served France, including in Napoleon's armies. Less recognition has been given to the British Army's three Swiss regiments during the Napoleonic Wars. This is the story of the Regiment de Roll, the first to be raised by Britain, and its extensive service throughout the wars.
Author : Moises Enrique Rodriguez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000124789177
In 1820, liberal revolutions broke out in the Iberian Peninsula and these conflicts led to the Portuguese War of the Two Brothers (1831-1834) and the Spanish First Carlist War (1833-1840). During this period, the Greeks fought their War of Independence (1821-1832) against Turkey. British mercenaries fought in these three wars.
Author : National Defense University Press,Sean McFate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Mercenary troops
ISBN : 1678665231
Mercenaries are more powerful than experts realize, a grave oversight. Those who assume they are cheap imitations of national armed forces invite disaster because for-profit warriors are a wholly different genus and species of fighter. Private military companies such as the Wagner Group are more like heavily armed multinational corporations than the Marine Corps. Their employees are recruited from different countries, and profitability is everything. Patriotism is unimportant, and sometimes a liability. Unsurprisingly, mercenaries do not fight conventionally, and traditional war strategies used against them may backfire.
Author : Mike Rapport
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191642517
The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they provided the stimulus for radical social and political change - particularly in Spain, Germany, and Italy - and are frequently viewed in these places as the starting point of their modern histories. In this Very Short Introduction, Mike Rapport provides a brief outline of the wars, introducing the tactics, strategies, and weaponry of the time. Presented in three parts, he considers the origins and course of the wars, the ways and means in which it was fought, and the social and political legacy it has left to the world today. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Janice E. Thomson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400821242
The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.
Author : David Greentree
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780960470
Ever since the 15th century Switzerland had been exporting professional soldiers to serve as mercenaries for foreign monarchies. Napoleon, therefore, was not the first to make full use of the martial qualities of the Swiss and obtained Swiss agreement to expand the recruitment of regiments for service in the French Army. Napoleon would use Swiss troops on the battlefields of Italy and Spain, and in 1812 re-organize the four original regiments into a single division for the invasion of Russia, with each regiment having three full-strength battalions. In November of 1812, meeting up with Napoleon's main force retreating from Moscow at the Berezina River, the Swiss on the west bank guarded the approaches to the pontoon bridges from the Russian attack to the south. Just 1,200 Swiss out of the approximately 8,000 that entered Russia were left to face, along with 8,000 other remnants of other units, the 30,000-strong Russian army. The Swiss held their ground and when their ammunition ran out they charged the Russians with bayonets. This book reveals the proud combat history of the Swiss troops of Napoleon's army as well as the colourful uniforms they wore.
Author : Alan I. Forrest
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780195059373
Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some two to three million frenchmen--a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as an attack on the liberties of rural communities. Forrest challenges the notion of a nation heroically rushing to arms by examining the massive rates of desertion and avoidance of service as well as their consequences on French society--on military campaigns and the morale of armies, on political opinion at home, on the social fabric of local villages, and on the Napoleonic dream of bringing about a coherent and centralized state.
Author : N. Arielli,B. Collins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137296634
Warfare in the modern era has often been described in terms of national armies fighting national wars. This volume challenges the view by examining transnational aspects of military mobilization from the eighteenth century to the present. Truly global in scope, it offers an alternative way of reading the military history of the last 250 years.
Author : Beatrice Heuser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139492560
Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia.
Author : Major Kevin G. Collins
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782896111
Although the government’s reliance on contractors to support military forces is not a new phenomenon, the degree to which contractors are involved in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OIF) has increased substantially. In OIF in particular, contractors perform a wide range of services in support of stabilization and reconstruction efforts. Perhaps the most controversial and arguably the most troublesome of these contractors are those that are armed and use violence in the course of fulfilling their contractual obligations. This thesis explores whether or not such contractors, herein identified as private security providers (PSPs), have a destabilizing influence on United States political and military objectives. In doing so, the thesis identifies and evaluates the legal environment in which PSPs operate the intersection between PSP activities and critical requirements and vulnerabilities of coalition forces and PSP involvement within logical lines of operation within Iraq. In concluding, the author posits that PSPs have a destabilizing impact on not only the political and military mission, but the United States military as well. Finally, the author provides recommendations for employing PSPs in the present and future conflicts.
Author : David Avrom Bell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618349650
The author maintains that modern attitudes toward total war were conceived during the Napoleonic era; and argues that all the elements of total war were evident including conscription, unconditional surrender, disregard for basic rules of war, mobilization of civilians, and guerrilla warfare.
