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Author : Walter Henry (M. D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082382585
Author : Surgeon Walter Henry
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782890133
As a “cutter”, or regimental surgeon, Walter Henry faced the bloodiest side of the military in no less than three continents. “In December 1811 he became an assistant surgeon in the 66th Foot, with which he served throughout the Peninsular War, participating in numerous actions including Badajoz, Vitoria, and Nivelle. Henry was posted to India and Nepal in 1815 with the regiment’s first battalion, which was recalled in 1817 to join the second battalion in garrisoning the south Atlantic island of St Helena, where Napoleon was confined. He found the former French emperor “unsightly and obese”; in 1821 he kept the official notes made during Napoleon’s autopsy. Subsequently he served with the 66th in Ireland (1822–27), and in 1826 was made regimental surgeon. In 1827 Henry arrived in the Canadas with his regiment, which was stationed at Quebec (1827–30 and 1835–39), Montreal (1830–31), Kingston (1831–33 and 1834–35), and York (Toronto) (1833–34). Promoted surgeon to the army medical department in 1839, he remained at Quebec until 1841, when he was posted to Halifax where four years later he became a deputy inspector general of military hospitals. He returned to England in 1848 but in 1852 came back to Quebec as inspector general in charge of military medical services in British North America. His career seems not to have had medical distinction. Nevertheless his memoirs leave little doubt of his surgical competence, and his courage was exemplary both in battle and while performing equally dangerous work such as during the cholera epidemics.”Dict. Canadian Bio. A valuable memoir for both early life in Canada and a surgeon’s life in the Napoleonic Wars.
Author : Moine J. M. Le Moine
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1354480732
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Author : Walter Henry
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230335668
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... TRIFLES FROM MY PORT-FOLIO. CHAPTER I. BEAUTIFUL RIDES AND FINE VIEWS IN ST. HELENA.--A DISrfSREEABLE BRIGADIER.--ILLNESS AND DEATH OF NAPOLEON. "Mas in magnum fertur mare." Lucretius. "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the Earth with ruin--his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoflined and unknown." Childe Harold. There is a wooded mountain-ridge in St. Helena, called "Diana's Peak," three thousand feet above the level of the sea, from which the view is wonderfully grand and vast. It commands the whole circumference of the Island, with a circle of three hundred miles of ocean--the distant horizon mingling with the sky. This is a celebrated spot for Pic-Nics; although the labour of clambering to the top is no trifling undertaking for a lady, and the narrow ledge, or back-bone at the summit, with its nearly perpendicular sides, affords a very nervous promenade. The whole mountain is covered with wood; chiefly. the Geoffrsea or Cabbage Tree, shaped exactly like an umvoi. II. B j brella, and enormous Polypodiums, twenty feet high: but here, as all over the Island, there is a dearth of wild flowers.-At the base of the Peak, several fine springs of the purest and coolest water gush out; feeding long leaden pipes, which were put down in our time, to convey the water to Longwood and Deadwood. The rides on the highlands, generally, were remarkably agreeable--the air cool, the road good, and every turn or fresh elevation presenting some new and striking combination...
Author : My portfolio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590708766
Author : William Canniff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OSU:32435061716320
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : English literature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924057524724
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092843655
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019543514
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082320270
Author : Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Art
ISBN : UIUC:30112117964095
An artistic periodical.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015036744459
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2837
Author : Edward J. Coss
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806146164
The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded by the duke’s own words—“scum of the earth”—and assumed to have been society’s ne’er-do-wells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice. Now Edward J. Coss shows to the contrary that most of these redcoats were respectable laborers and tradesmen and that it was mainly their working-class status that prompted the duke’s derision. Driven into the army by unemployment in the wake of Britain’s industrial revolution, they confronted wartime hardship with ethical values and became formidable soldiers in the bargain These men depended on the king’s shilling for survival, yet pay was erratic and provisions were scant. Fed worse even than sixteenth-century Spanish galley slaves, they often marched for days without adequate food; and if during the campaign they did steal from Portuguese and Spanish civilians, the theft was attributable not to any criminal leanings but to hunger and the paltry rations provided by the army. Coss draws on a comprehensive database on British soldiers as well as first-person accounts of Peninsular War participants to offer a better understanding of their backgrounds and daily lives. He describes how these neglected and abused soldiers came to rely increasingly on the emotional and physical support of comrades and developed their own moral and behavioral code. Their cohesiveness, Coss argues, was a major factor in their legendary triumphs over Napoleon’s battle-hardened troops. The first work to closely examine the social composition of Wellington’s rank and file through the lens of military psychology, All for the King’s Shilling transcends the Napoleonic battlefield to help explain the motivation and behavior of all soldiers under the stress of combat.
Author : William Gifford,Sir John Taylor Coleridge,John Gibson Lockhart,Whitwell Elwin,William Macpherson,William Smith,Sir John Murray IV,Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008496429