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Author : Andrew Thomas Blayney Baron Blayney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : France
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0022472002
Author : Andrew Thomas Blayney
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0266930638
Excerpt from Narrative of a Forced Journey Through Spain and France, as a Prisoner of War, in the Years 1810 to 1814, Vol. 1 of 2 A 4 afterafter the circumstances happened. This, he trusts, will excuse any inaccuracies that may be met with; for, without affectation, he must de clare that he had not originally any idea of offering this narrative to public notice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : BLAYNEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BDM:13020100013884
Author : Andrew Thomas Blayney Baron Blayney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : France
ISBN : NWU:35556009892944
Author : Major-General Lord Andrew Thomas Blayney
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908692603
Major-General Lord Andrew Thomas Blayney although previously a successful commander of his own regiment the 89th Regiment of Foot of the British through-out the early stages of the Peninsular war, he is best known for his narrative of events after his capture by Polish forces fighting under the flag of Napoleonic France. Blayney was the leader of an ill-fated Anglo-Spanish force which was assigned the task of attacking from Cadiz toward Malaga, culminating the battle of Fuengirola on 15th October 1810. Outnumbering his Polish foes by a huge margin, a series of unfortunate accidents on the allied side and brave and heroic resistance on the Polish side led to a debacle and his capture. It should be noted that this was far from the only amphibious disaster led by the British in the Peninsular Wars that should throw further perspective on the victories of the main British army under Wellington. Blayney’s narrative along with some idiosyncratic spelling recounts his journey from Andulusia to Verdun in the north-east of France. During his journey from one outpost to another as a paroled prisoner he meets a number of famed French generals, as befitted his rank, such as Sébastiani, Kellermann, Belliard and even Marshal Bessiéres who treat him on the whole well. He winds his way through the countryside, and he tells many tales of the people and surroundings that he finds himself somewhat forcibly journeying through. The main strength of the narrative is the author’s eye to detail and his flair for recounting a tale, along with the real rarity of accounts from the point of view of an English prisoner of war. Published in two volumes this is the first volume.
Author : C. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137316530
The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland, drawing on an extensive range of personal testimonies by soldiers, sailors and civilians to shed new light on the social and cultural history of the period and the history of warfare more broadly.
Author : Michael O'Brien
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429944755
Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, down the Baltic coast to Prussia, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon's return from Elba. Along the way, she learned what the long years of Napoleon's wars had done to Europe, what her old friends in the royal court in Berlin had experienced during the French occupation, how it felt to have her life threatened by reckless soldiers, and how to manage fear. The journey was a metaphor for a life spent crossing borders: born in London in 1775, she had grown up partly in France, and in 1797 had married into the most famous of American political dynasties and become the daughter-in-law of John and Abigail Adams. The prizewinning historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adams's extraordinary passage. An evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings, Mrs. Adams in Winter offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.
Author : Jason R Musteen
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612510842
Gibraltar has been one of Great Britain’s most legendary fortresses since its capture from Spain in 1704 and its strategic location as the gatekeeper of the Mediterranean Sea has given it a commanding position in the history of Modern Britain and in the history of the region. When war erupted between Britain and France in 1793, Gibraltar was already established as an impregnable fortress and as a strong source of British pride, but it was not yet a position of great strategic importance. However, during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815), Gibraltar became a powerful naval station in its own right and its soldiers became an offensive force as they frequently left the safety of their walls to attack the enemy in Europe and Africa. That combination of military and naval might transformed Gibraltar into a base capable of meeting the various demands in the Mediterranean for many years to come. This primarily naval and military history examines the growth of Gibraltar during this important time. The manuscript is not exclusively naval or military, though. The character of Gibraltar that has made it such a fascinating place to visit today includes a rich diversity of culture, religion, language, population, and history. Therefore, this work is at times a history of Gibraltarian society, of medicine and disease, of the convergence of religions, and of commerce in addition to being a history of Napoleon, Nelson, Wellington and the age in which they lived and fought.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : English literature
ISBN : OXFORD:555022251
Author : William Mahon
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473870529
At the Battle of Waterloo Sir William Ponsonby, a man who the Duke of Wellington stated had rendered very brilliant and important services and was an ornament to his profession, was killed by French lancers after leading the Union Brigade (the three Dragoon Regiments of the Royals, Iniskillings and Scots Greys) in a charge that wrecked a French advance that threatened Wellington with defeat. Sir William was a career soldier who had led his regiment in the decisive charge at the Battle of Salamanca and served with great distinction during the Peninsular War. Yet historians have blamed him because the charge at Waterloo got out of hand. In this book John Morewood uses family sources, including Sir Williams letters, as well as French and German accounts, to restore his reputation and, by shedding new light on the battle, establishes what really happen to him on that fatal afternoon. It is also a biography of a man whose bravery and professionalism distinguished him as one of the outstanding cavalry commanders of the age.
Author : Charles Esdaile
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473870840
So great is the weight of reading on the subject of the Waterloo campaign that it might be thought there is nothing left to say about it, and from the military viewpoint, this is very much the case. But one critical aspect of the story has gone all but untold the French home front. Little has been written about the topic in English, and few works on Napoleon or Revolutionary and Napoleonic France pay it much attention. It is this conspicuous gap in the literature that Charles Esdaile explores in this erudite and absorbing study. Drawing on the vivid, revealing material that is available in the French archives, in the writings of soldiers who fought in France in 1814 and 1815 and in the memoirs of civilians who witnessed the fall of Napoleon or the Hundred Days, he gives us a fascinating new insight into the military and domestic context of the Waterloo campaign, the Napoleonic legend and the wider situation across Europe.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024260906
Author : Thomas Moore
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874132568
For over a hundred years, the journal of the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was thought to have been destroyed. In 1967 the manuscript was found in the archives of the Longman Publishing House in London. This edition, to be published in six volumes, reveals the essential Moore and introduces the reader to the daily, personal record of Moore's life from 1818 to 1847. The journal begins as an accurate rendering of the author's daily life and ends as a tragic reflection of a failing memory and a deteriorating mind. Illustrated.
Author : Robert Southey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : HARVARD:HXQ45A
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555023103