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Author : Charles William Vane Marquis of Londonderry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : BSB:BSB10353267
Author : Robert Blakeney
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547347026
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Boy in the Peninsular War" (The Services, Adventures and Experiences of Robert Blakeney) by Robert Blakeney. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : J. W. Fortescue
Publisher : Leonaur Limited
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1782825681
Volume 1 of the 6 volume history of the Peninsular War Fortescue is rightly renowned for his multi-volume magnum opus, 'The History of the British Army', which, since it was written in the early decades of the twentieth century, feature the struggles with Napoleonic France, as a substantial part of the whole. These campaigns took place across the world but, for the British, most notably in Spain, Portugal and the South of France following the French invasion of Iberia. The numerous disconnected sections, within Fortescue's larger work, concerning the Peninsular War, have been extracted for the first time and carefully edited to create this six volume history. There can be no doubt that in Fortescue the British Army found one of its finest historians. His scholarship is superb, but is balanced by outstanding and fearless academic analysis. What makes this history incomparable and essential is that Fortescue was a contemporary of the other great British military historian of the modern age, Charles Oman, who wrote his own history of the Peninsular War. Fortescue conferred and collaborated with Oman to produce this work and within these pages the reader will discover both confirmations and qualified corrections to some of Oman's assertions on points of detail. Fortescue was extraordinarily thorough in his use of primary source material (which is annotated) and he additionally walked the ground of the campaign himself. The magnitude of the joint scholarship which brought this history into being cannot be overstated. This analysis of the Peninsular War differs significantly from Fortescue's other writings on the British Army, in that in embraces the activities of the French and the Spanish in some depth, thus creating a total view. This is a serious, academic, and thoroughly readable, history and no library of the subject can be truly said to be complete without it. The text has been complemented in this Leonaur edition by battlefield maps not present in the original publication. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547530886
"Under Wellington's Command: A Tale of the Peninsular War" by G. A. Henty. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : T. Miller Maguire
Publisher : Leonaur Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782829369
Wellington's campaign against Marshal Soult The content of this concise book concentrates on the final phase of the Peninsular War from the Battle of the Nivelle to the close of hostilities following the battles at Toulouse and Bayonne. Maguire's work on the subject was originally published in the United Services Institute Magazine. He wrote widely on military history, including a highly regarded work, 'Outlines of Military Geography', which explores the issue of terrain from a tactical perspective giving several different campaigns as examples. This present book follows the last months of the campaign in the South of France and includes erudite insights into Wellington's capabilities as a military commander, as well as a synopsis of the war by Charles Oman and maps and illustrations. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Author : Major Harry Ross-Lewin
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908902016
Although the 32nd Regiment was primarily recruited in and around Cornwall, leading to many scraps with the Navy for manpower, in its ranks during the Napoleonic wars the two Irish brothers of the Ross-Lewin family fought, the elder brother Harry left an exciting and vibrant account of his campaigning. His adventures took him from the West Indies, engagements with rebel Irishmen, Copenhagen, even before his arrival in the Peninsular to start his campaigns under Wellington in 1808. His first major trial under fire begins at Rolica and Vimiero, before he and his brave men are sent off to the pestilent climes of Walcheren. Returning to the Spain once again he is heavily engaged during the battle of Salamanca, during which he is wounded, once mended his service takes him onward to France via a number of battles at Bayonne, Orthez and Toulouse. During his campaigning he suffers the loss of his brother Edward and writes touchingly of his bravery before he fell. His account of the Waterloo campaign is amongst the best that survive, accurate and vividly written, he was lucky to survive the culminating battle as his regiment was one of the most severely depleted. Major Ross-Lewin originally wrote three volumes of his memoirs of his time in the British army under the title of “The Life of a Soldier, by a Field Officer” in three volumes; this edition has been expertly trimmed the then reader of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin. This work shares the tone of his countryman William Grattan’s memoirs, with a wry view of the antics of his soldiers, an eye for the details of what passed before him, interspersed with battle vignettes that convey the fire and confusion of battle.
Author : W. F. P. Napier
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789359396279
"History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Vol. 1" is a comprehensive account of the Peninsular War, authored by William Francis Patrick Napier. The he book delves into the military campaigns and other one political intricacies during this significant period of European history. Napier, a British military officer with firsthand experience in the Peninsular War, meticulously documents the events and strategies employed by the Allied forces, led by the Duke of Wellington, in their fight against the French armies under Napoleon Bonaparte's command. The book provides valuable insights into the challenges and also triumphs of the British, Portuguese, and also Spanish forces as they engage in a protracted and challenging conflict. Napier's writing is characterized by a vivid and detailed narrative, offering readers a compelling and authoritative account of the war's progression. He not only describes the major battles but also delves into the socio-political contexts that shaped the outcomes of various campaigns. As a seminal work on the Peninsular War, Napier's "History of the War in the Peninsula" remains a primary source for historians and military enthusiasts alike. His expertise as a military commander and his eloquent prose make this volume an indispensable reference for understanding the complexities and significance of the Peninsular War during the early 19th century.
Author : J. W. Fortescue
Publisher : Leonaur Limited
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1782825789
Volume 6 of the 6 volume history of the Peninsular War Fortescue is rightly renowned for his multi-volume magnum opus, 'The History of the British Army', which, since it was written in the early decades of the twentieth century, feature the struggles with Napoleonic France, as a substantial part of the whole. These campaigns took place across the world but, for the British, most notably in Spain, Portugal and the South of France following the French invasion of Iberia. The numerous disconnected sections, within Fortescue's larger work, concerning the Peninsular War, have been extracted for the first time and carefully edited to create this six volume history. There can be no doubt that in Fortescue the British Army found one of its finest historians. His scholarship is superb, but is balanced by outstanding and fearless academic analysis. What makes this history incomparable and essential is that Fortescue was a contemporary of the other great British military historian of the modern age, Charles Oman, who wrote his own history of the Peninsular War. Fortescue conferred and collaborated with Oman to produce this work and within these pages the reader will discover both confirmations and qualified corrections to some of Oman's assertions on points of detail. Fortescue was extraordinarily thorough in his use of primary source material (which is annotated) and he additionally walked the ground of the campaign himself. The magnitude of the joint scholarship which brought this history into being cannot be overstated. This analysis of the Peninsular War differs significantly from Fortescue's other writings on the British Army, in that in embraces the activities of the French and the Spanish in some depth, thus creating a total view. This is a serious, academic, and thoroughly readable, history and no library of the subject can be truly said to be complete without it. The text has been complemented in this Leonaur edition by battlefield maps not present in the original publication. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Author : Roger Parkinson
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 184022228X
The Peninsular War began in 1808 with Napoleon at the height of his power and ended with his attempted suicide in 1814. This narrative recalls the horror, excitement and drudgery of history's first guerilla war.
Author : J. W. Fortescue
Publisher : Leonaur Limited
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1782825762
Volume 5 of the 6 volume history of the Peninsular War Fortescue is rightly renowned for his multi-volume magnum opus, 'The History of the British Army', which, since it was written in the early decades of the twentieth century, feature the struggles with Napoleonic France, as a substantial part of the whole. These campaigns took place across the world but, for the British, most notably in Spain, Portugal and the South of France following the French invasion of Iberia. The numerous disconnected sections, within Fortescue's larger work, concerning the Peninsular War, have been extracted for the first time and carefully edited to create this six volume history. There can be no doubt that in Fortescue the British Army found one of its finest historians. His scholarship is superb, but is balanced by outstanding and fearless academic analysis. What makes this history incomparable and essential is that Fortescue was a contemporary of the other great British military historian of the modern age, Charles Oman, who wrote his own history of the Peninsular War. Fortescue conferred and collaborated with Oman to produce this work and within these pages the reader will discover both confirmations and qualified corrections to some of Oman's assertions on points of detail. Fortescue was extraordinarily thorough in his use of primary source material (which is annotated) and he additionally walked the ground of the campaign himself. The magnitude of the joint scholarship which brought this history into being cannot be overstated. This analysis of the Peninsular War differs significantly from Fortescue's other writings on the British Army, in that in embraces the activities of the French and the Spanish in some depth, thus creating a total view. This is a serious, academic, and thoroughly readable, history and no library of the subject can be truly said to be complete without it. The text has been complemented in this Leonaur edition by battlefield maps not present in the original publication. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Author : Nicholas Dorrell
Publisher : Century of the Soldier
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1911628402
An often neglected aspect of Marlborough's war is its crucial campaign in Spain and Portugal, also known as the First Peninsula War of 1702-1712. Whilst this campaign was critical to the outcome of the war, relatively little information is available about it or the army that fought it. This work not only provides a detailed look at the army that fought the Spanish and Portuguese campaigns of Marlborough's war, but it also offers an insight into the course of the war in Iberia. It aims to provide more detail and understanding of a relatively little known part of a war that helped to shape and strengthened Britain's position amongst the main European players. Several chapters look at the national contingents that made up the confederate armies fighting in Spain and Portugal. The work concentrates not only on the reasonably well known British contribution but also on the equally important role of the less well known Austrian, Dutch, Palatine, Portuguese and Spanish contingents. These chapters provide general information about the units involved, their organization, tactics and other relevant detail. In other chapters the work concentrates in detail on the developments in the Spanish and Portuguese campaigns in each year of the war. Details of the composition of the armies in each campaign, their activities and battles, the size of the units, if known, in each year are provided. Attention is paid not only to the most famous engagement at Almanza but also to the other battles and skirmishes of the Iberian campaigns. The book provides a complete guide to the forces fighting in Marlborough's armies in Iberia. It will be a valuable addition to the library of both the casual reader and the serious history student with interest in this important part of British and European history. It not only offers for the first time an overview of all the contributions to the war effort in Iberia, but also presents the reader with a valuable contrast not only to Marlborough's campaigns of the time, but also perhaps to Wellington's later campaign.
Author : W. F. P. Napier
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789359396309
"History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Vol. 4" by William Francis Patrick Napier continues the compelling historical account of the Napoleonic Wars in the Iberian Peninsula and other one southern France. This volume picks up from where its predecessor left off, delving deeper into the complex military campaigns and political intrigues, and also human stories that unfolded between 1807 and 1814. With meticulous detail and insightful analysis, Napier narrates pivotal events like the Battle of Vitoria, the Pyrenees campaign, and the subsequent allied invasion of France itself. The author which that offers a comprehensive perspective on the strategies and tactics, and other one leadership of the opposing forces, particularly the British and Portuguese, Spanish, and French armies. Through this comprehensive work, Napier masterfully explores the impact of the war on both soldiers and civilians, shedding light on the suffering, courage, and resilience displayed by those caught in the conflict's crossfire. He also examines the diplomatic and political intricacies that shaped the course of the war, as well as the profound consequences it had on the geopolitical landscape of the time.
Author : Sir Andrew Leith HAY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025056085
Author : G. Daly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137323835
Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs.
Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781599860
What was a British soldiers life like during the Napoleonic Wars? How was he recruited and trained? How did he live on home service and during service abroad? And what was his experience of battle? In this landmark book Philip Haythornthwaite traces the career of a British soldier from enlistment, through the key stages of his path through the military system, including combat, all the way to his eventual discharge. His fascinating account shows how varied the recruits of the day were, from urban dwellers and weavers to plowboys and laborers, and they came from all regions of the British Isles including Ireland and Scotland. Some of them may have justified the Duke of Wellingtons famous description of them as the scum of the earth. Yet these common soldiers were capable of extraordinary feats on campaign and on the battlefield that eventually turned the course of the war against Napoleon.
