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Author : Portugal. [Appendix.],Joseph Donaldson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : OXFORD:600010888
Author : Joseph Donaldson
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : 1862270856
When 16 year-old Joseph Donaldson announced to his parents in 1809 that he had 'gone for a soldier', they were understandably horrified, given the bleak and uncertain prospects facing their beloved son, of whom they had such high hopes. Donaldson was an educated lad who would probably have made his way in the world had he not decided to join the army. Fortunately for his parents -- and, indeed, ourselves -- Donaldson returned safe and sound at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and within a few years of his return put pen to paper to record his account of his adventures in that most glorious of British campaigns, the Peninsular War, fought between 1808 and 1814. Donaldson's lot was pretty much that of many other soldiers; tough, demanding, at times extremely unpleasant and life-threatening, but he bore it all well considering his very young age. That he did so is born out by the fact that by the time he left the army he was a sergeant, no mean achievement for somebody in the uncompromising ranks of the British army of the early 19th century. The end result of Donaldson's writings was his wonderfully graphic, gripping and often poignant memoir, the Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier, reproduced here for the first time since 1852, along with his two other works, The War in the Peninsula and Scenes and Sketches in Ireland. In them, Donaldson writes with great skill of his experiences in Portugal, Spain and the south of France, serving with Wellington's army as it fought its way through the Peninsula. His account includes such episodes as Massena's retreat from Portugal, the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, the storming and sacking of the fortress of Badajoz (a really gripping piece), the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, the invasion of France and the battles of Orthes and Toulouse, all of which Donaldson witnessed as a soldier in the ranks of Sir Thomas Picton's 'Fighting' 3rd Division, the toughest division in Wellington's army. This is a classic book which ranks amongst the most graphic and enjoyable of the many memoirs of the Peninsular War. -- Dust jacket.
Author : Neil Ramsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : NWU:35556000821553
Author : Archibald MACLELLAN (of Glasgow.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019380309
Author : Carole Divall
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526774033
Over two hundred years ago, on 21 June 1813, just southwest of Vitoria in northern Spain, the British, Portuguese and Spanish army commanded by the Duke of Wellington confronted the French army of Napoleon’s brother Joseph. Hours later Wellington’s forces won an overwhelming victory and, after six years of bitter occupation, the French were ousted from Iberia. This is the critical battle that Carole Divall focuses on in this vivid, scholarly study of the last phase of the Peninsular War. The battle was the pivotal event of the 1813 campaign - it was fatal to French interests in Spain - but it is also significant because it demonstrated Wellington’s confidence in his allied army and in himself. The complexity of the manoeuvres he expected his men to carry out and the shrewd strategic planning that preceded the battle were quite remarkable. As well as giving a graphic close description of each stage of the battle, Carole Divall sets it in the wider scope of the Peninsular War. Through the graphic recollections of the men who were there – from commanders to the merest foot soldiers – she offers us a direct insight into the reality of combat during the Napoleonic Wars.
Author : Thurnam's Circulating Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : BL:A0021662228
Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015077750142
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z174873103
Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : BL:A0023650603
Author : Library company of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555057422
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433069125700
Author : William Scott,Francis Garden,James Bowling Mozley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Christianity
ISBN : NYPL:33433081755286
Author : Library of Congress,Library of Congress. Catalog, 1840
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015033644256
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103170440