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Author : Nicholas Fogg
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781398102606
Based on the journals of a New Yorker who would become one of Wellington’s senior generals, the story of a remarkable military career from The American War of Independence to the Peninsula, Tobago and Canada.
Author : Huw J. Davies
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300165401
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate--and controversial--new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career. Unlike his nemesis Napoleon, Wellington was by no means a man of innate military talent, Huw J. Davies argues. Instead, the key to Wellington's military success was an exceptionally keen understanding of the relationship between politics and war.Drawing on extensive primary research, Davies discusses Wellington's military apprenticeship in India, where he learned through mistakes as well as successes how to plan campaigns, organize and use intelligence, and negotiate with allies. In India Wellington encountered the constant political machinations of indigenous powers, and it was there that he apprenticed in the crucial skill of balancing conflicting political priorities. In later campaigns and battles, including the Peninsular War and Waterloo, Wellington's genius for strategy, operations, and tactics emerged. For his success in the art of war, he came to rely on his art as a politician and tactician. This strikingly original book shows how Wellington made even unlikely victories possible--with a well-honed political brilliance that underpinned all of his military achievements.
Author : George Lillie Craik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UVA:X001122369
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007383498
In this compelling book, Richard Holmes tells the exhilarating story of the Duke of Wellington, Britain's greatest ever soldier.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Europe
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117872916
Considers sense of Senate resolution against stationing of U.S. ground forces in Europe without a congressionally authorized policy. Focuses on U.S. role in NATO.
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1976-02
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
ISBN : UCBK:C021093830
Author : Janet Bromley,David Bromley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781594124
Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work to be published in two volumes, which has been compiled on behalf of the The Waterloo Association containing over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 28 countries world wide.
Author : Gordon Corrigan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826425904
The Duke of Wellington, the most successful of British commanders, set a standard by which all subsequent British generals have been measured. His defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 crowned a reputation first won in India at Assaye and then confirmed during the Peninsular War, where he followed up his defence of Portugal by expelling the French from Spain. Gordon Corrigan, himself an ex-soldier, examines his claims to greatness. Wellington was in many ways the first modern general, combining a mastery of logistics with an ability to communicate and inspire. He had to contend not only with enemy armies but also with his political masters and an often sceptical public at home.
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
ISBN : NYPL:33433044475634
Author : Dr. Mark S. Thomson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783463633
The role of the Royal Engineers in the Peninsular War has long been neglected and often misunderstood, and Mark Thompson's history is the first full account of their work and of the contribution they made throughout the conflict. He draws on his unrivalled collection of the engineers' letters and diaries in order to tell, in vivid detail, the story of the war as they experienced it. His narrative describes their role in all the major operations between 1808 and 1814, and it demonstrates the extraordinary range of tasks they undertook, from surveys and reconnaissance to the building of roads and bridges, siege works and field fortifications. His deeply researched study will be fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in the history of military engineering and a vital text for readers who are keen to broaden their understanding of the Peninsular War.
Author : Nick Lipscombe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472804686
Written in the same engaging style of Mark Urban's Fusiliers and Rifles, this is a brilliant study of the Gunners who revolutionised warfare during the course of the Napoleonic Wars despite the opposition of their commander-in-chief. Dismissive, conservative and aloof, Wellington treated his artillery with disdain during the Napoleonic Wars – despite their growing influence on the field of battle. Wellington's Guns exposes, for the very first time, the often stormy relationship between Wellington and his artillery, how the reluctance to modernize the British artillery corps threatened to derail the British push for victory and how Wellington's views on the command and appointment structure within the artillery opened up damaging rifts between him and his men. At a time when artillery was undergoing revolutionary changes – from the use of mountain guns during the Pyrenees campaign in the Peninsular, the innovative execution of 'danger-close' missions to clear the woods of Hougomont at Waterloo, to the introduction of creeping barrages and Congreve's rockets – Wellington seemed to remain distrustful of a force that played a significant role in shaping tactics and changing the course of the war. Using extensive research and first-hand accounts, Colonel Nick Lipscombe reveals that despite Wellington's brilliance as a field commander, his abrupt and uncompromising leadership style, particularly towards his artillery commanders, shaped the Napoleonic Wars, and how despite this, the ever-evolving technology and tactics ensured that the extensive use of artillery became one of the hallmarks of a modern army.
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
ISBN : MINN:31951D03596127W
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1976-02
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
ISBN : IND:30000098611555
Author : John James M'Gregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555058987
Author : David O. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999765914
This study examines the observations of U.S. military personnel who attended India's Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) at Wellington. Although the DSSC is a tri-service professional military education institution, this study focuses primarily on the Indian Army, the largest and most influentialmilitary service in India. Collectively, U.S. personnel at the DSSC had sustained interactionsover an extended period of time with three distinct groups of Indian Army officers: seniorofficers (brigadier through lieutenant general), senior midlevel (lieutenant colonel and colonel),and junior midlevel (captain and major). The study focuses on the attitudes and values of theIndian Army officer corps over a 38-year period, from 1979 to 2017, to determine if there waschange over time, and if so, to understand the drivers of that change.