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Author : Edward Costello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : OXFORD:600008348
Author : Edward Costello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1021239178
Author : Edward Costello
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 128996565X
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 : Edward Costello
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908692702
Edward Costello enlisted into his local militia regiment in Ireland in 1806, and transferred, not without having a few adventures in his native Ireland, to the 95th Rifles. Not quite well drilled enough to join in Sir John Moore’s 1808-1809 campaign, he narrates some stories of his comrades who did, including Tom Plunket, famous for shooting the French General Colbert. His service in the Peninsular campaign, started almost immediately with the epic forced march to Talavera under General “Black Bob” Crauford, a fierce discipliarian, but liked by his men as Costello points out. Numerous skirmishes, affairs of outposts and combats punctuate Costello’s narrative, along with amusing asides of his comrades and their japes, drinking and occasionally their punishment by the lash. Present at the battles of Fuentes d’Oñoro, El Bodon, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle and the storming of Cuidad Roderigo and bloody Badajoz, he captures the mood of the men and the hellish atmosphere of a battle, and the sorrow of lost friends. After a brief break in his active service Costello once more engages during the Waterloo campaign, and is heavily engaged at Waterloo and Quatre Bras. After the fall of Napoleon Costello’s career turns to the British Legion , which is no sinecure despite his elevation to Lieutenant as he is posted to join the expedition to Spain and sees the vicious civil war at first hand, with scenes that remind him of the savagery of his experiences between the Guerillas and the French many years before. A gem in the sparkling vein of memoirs written by the men and officers of the famed Rifle brigade during their adventures in the Peninsular war. Costello writes with a verve and wit, and some idiosyncratic spelling, often only found in the works of the officers of his regiment such as Kincaid. A justly acclaimed classic.
Author : Edward Costello
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9354753671
The book, Adventures of a Soldier, Written by Himself; Being the Memoirs of Edward Costello, K.S.F. Formerly a Non-Commissioned Officer in the Rifle Brigade, Late Captain in the British Legion, and Now One of the Wardens of the Tower of London; Comprising Narratives of the Campaigns in the Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington, and the Subsequent Civil Wars in Spain., has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author : Edward Costello
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1018131795
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Author : Edward B. 1788 Costello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1360131639
Author : Edward Costello
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547613633
"Adventures of a Soldier: Being the Memoirs of Edward Costello" by Edward Costello offers readers a firsthand account of the life of a soldier. Costello's memoirs provide a unique and personal perspective on the experiences, challenges, and adventures faced by soldiers during his time. This book is a valuable historical document that immerses readers in the world of military life and the trials and triumphs of a soldier.
Author : Neil Ramsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351885676
Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Ramsey shows, the military memoir achieved widespread acclaim and commercial success among the reading public of the late Romantic era. Ramsey assesses their influence in relation to Romantic culture's wider understanding of war writing, autobiography, and authorship and to the shifting relationships between the individual, the soldier, and the nation. The memoirs, Ramsey argues, participated in a sentimental response to the period's wars by transforming earlier, impersonal traditions of military memoirs into stories of the soldier's personal suffering. While the focus on suffering established in part a lasting strand of anti-war writing in memoirs by private soldiers, such stories also helped to foster a sympathetic bond between the soldier and the civilian that played an important role in developing ideas of a national war and functioned as a central component in a national commemoration of war.
Author : John Grehan
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783831999
For more than twenty years Europe had been torn apart by war. Dynasties had crumbled, new states had been created and a generation had lost its young men. When it seemed that peace might at last settle across Europe, terrible news was received _ Napoleon had escaped from exile and was marching upon Paris. Europe braced itself once again for war. The allied nations agreed to combine against Napoleon and in May 1815 they began to mass on France's frontiers. The scene was set for the greatest battle the world had yet seen.??Composed of more than 300 eyewitness accounts, official documents, parliamentary debates and newspaper reports, Voices from the Past tells the story of Napoleon's last battles as they were experienced and reported by the men and women involved. ??Heroic cavalry charges, devastating artillery bombardments, terrible injuries, heart-breaking encounters, and amusing anecdotes, written by aristocratic officers and humble privates alike, fill the pages of this ambitious publication. Many of these reports have not been reproduced for almost 200 years.
Author : Ian Fletcher
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473884793
The Peninsular War was one of the most successful campaigns ever fought by the British Army. Between 1808, when British troops landed in Portugal, and 1814, when Wellington's Army advanced into the south of France, British soldiers were involved in countless battles and sieges against Napoleon's vaunted French veterans. Drawing on rare letters, diaries and memoirs, Ian Fletcher presents a superb insight into the daily lives of British soldiers in this momentous period and evokes such key battles and sieges as Vimiero, Talavera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria and San Sebastian. Ian Fletcher's skillful compilation of accounts, placed in context by important background detail, make this the story of the Peninsular War in the words of the men who marched, fought and triumphed with Wellington. Although there have been many accounts of soldiering in Wellington's army, Voices from the Peninsula throws new light on the experience of Napoleonic warfare and brings to life what Wellington called 'the finest military machine in existence'.
Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750957854
Writing to his mother the day after the fighting, Captain Thomas Wildman of the 7th Hussars described 'a victory so splendid & important that you may search the annals of history in vain for its parallel'. Little wonder, for Waterloo was widely recognised – even in its immediate wake – as one of the most decisive battles in history: after more than twenty years of uninterrupted conflict, this single day's encounter finally put paid to French aspirations for European hegemony. The culminating point of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo also witnessed levels of determination and bravery by both sides which far exceeded anything experienced by the veterans of Wellington's recent campaigns in Spain and Portugal. Indeed, it was that unconquerable spirit which left over 50,000 men dead on the field of battle and tens of thousands of others wounded. This thoroughly researched and highly detailed account of one of history's greatest human dramas looks first at the wider strategic picture before focusing on the tactical roles played by individual British units – all meticulously examined with the benefit of an extensive array of hitherto unexploited primary sources which reveal the battlefield experience of officers and soldiers as never before. Refusing simply to repeat the same unchallenged accounts and to commit the same errors of previous historians, this work relies exclusively on hundreds of first-hand accounts, by men of all ranks and from practically every British regiment and corps present on that fateful day, to provide a fresh and revised perspective on one of the most pivotal events of modern times.
Author : Jac Weller
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848325869
Jac Weller studies every move and counter-move of the battle, recreating not only the actions and tactics of the two great leaders but the epic engagements and clashes between the troops themselves that were pivotal for the victory or defeat. The author also studies the related battles of Quatre Bras and Ligny. He takes the reader with him onto the battlefield of Waterloo, a terrain whose features are still recongnisable today, and which is bought to life for the reader by detailed maps and by the authors vivid and riveting descriptions of the progress of the fighting.This completely original approach, appreciated by the Times Literary Supplement on the books first publication, strikes as fresh today, and this new edition, with an introduction specially written for it by the author, will be eagerly read by military enthusiasts and general reader alike.
Author : Eileen Hathaway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
ISBN : 0952278235
Author : Edward Costello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:230435294
