With Wellington S Outposts

Author : John Vandeleur
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473854734

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With Wellington's Outposts by John Vandeleur Pdf

'The author has done a quite outstanding job of editing and footnoting this rare memoir . . . this will be of genuine interest to the Peninsular War historian or enthusiast.' Philip Haythornthwaite John Vandeleur's letters home to his mother are a lively and engaging account of active service during the Napoleonic Wars, recounting everything from day-to-day life on campaign to the experience of pitched battle at Vitoria and Waterloo. As first a light infantryman and then a light cavalryman, Vandeleur was frequently on the outposts of Wellington's forces, in frequent contact with the French and often obliged to live a rough-and-ready lifestyle as a result. The conditions that he endured, and the camaraderie that sustained him, are vividly recounted in this fascinating collection – previously only available in an extremely rare private publication over a century ago. Expertly edited and enhanced with contemporary documents and commentary by Andrew Bamford, this is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the Peninsular War and Waterloo campaign.

Author : John Vandeleur
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473854499

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With Wellington's Outposts by John Vandeleur Pdf

'The author has done a quite outstanding job of editing and footnoting this rare memoir . . . this will be of genuine interest to the Peninsular War historian or enthusiast.' Philip Haythornthwaite John Vandeleur's letters home to his mother are a lively and engaging account of active service during the Napoleonic Wars, recounting everything from day-to-day life on campaign to the experience of pitched battle at Vitoria and Waterloo. As first a light infantryman and then a light cavalryman, Vandeleur was frequently on the outposts of Wellington's forces, in frequent contact with the French and often obliged to live a rough-and-ready lifestyle as a result. The conditions that he endured, and the camaraderie that sustained him, are vividly recounted in this fascinating collection – previously only available in an extremely rare private publication over a century ago. Expertly edited and enhanced with contemporary documents and commentary by Andrew Bamford, this is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the Peninsular War and Waterloo campaign.

Author : Christopher R. Hill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451685916

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Outpost by Christopher R. Hill Pdf

A former ambassador to Macedonia during the wars in the Balkans, Poland during the depths of the Cold War, South Korea during tense disarmament negotiations with North Korea and Iraq in the 21st century details the danger, loss of comrades, high-stakes negotiations, war criminals and American statesmen and heroes he has been witness to. 50,000 first printing. Illustrations.

Author : François Jarry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Guard duty
ISBN : BL:A0017624426

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Outpost Duty ... Translated from the French. To which are added Treatises on Military Reconnaissance and on Road Making by W. C. E. Napier by François Jarry Pdf

Author : John C. Wenger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579104566

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The Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan by John C. Wenger Pdf

A comprehensive and sympathetic history of all branches of the Mennonites and Amish, including a portrayal of their doctrine, life, and piety. It attempts to present a true picture of the Christian bodies in Indiana and Michigan which are descended from the European Anabaptists of the sixteenth century.

Author : Lieutenant-Colonel Terry Kinloch MNZM
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775592327

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Echoes of Gallipoli by Lieutenant-Colonel Terry Kinloch MNZM Pdf

The battles on Gallipoli in 1915 were crucial in making New Zealand the nation it is today. The huge sacrifice of life has affected the country for generations, and our annual formal remembrances on Anzac Day have become increasingly important. It is twenty years since the full story of Gallipoli was last told in book form. Now a new book will add significantly to our understanding of the events of 1915 on the Gallipoli penisula.Terry Kinloch tells the story with the help of members of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade, who emerged from Gallipoli battered and depleted, but with reputations enhanced. He has thoroughly researched their letters and diaries, and cleverly interspersed their eyewitness comments into his text. The result is a book that reads with the immediacy of actually being there. It is a fresh way of telling history, and one that is sure to find a response among New Zealanders today. The full story is here: the call-up, the sea journey, camp in Egypt, the eventual arrival in Gallipoli, all the battles and skirmishes that were fought there, and finally the remarkable evacuation several months later.

Author : Graham Dominy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252098246

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Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontier by Graham Dominy Pdf

Small and isolated in the Colony of Natal, Fort Napier was long treated like a temporary outpost of the expanding British Empire. Yet British troops manned this South African garrison for over seventy years. Tasked with protecting colonists, the fort became even more significant as an influence on, and reference point for, settler society. Graham Dominy's Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontier reveals the unexamined but pivotal role of Fort Napier in the peacetime public dramas of the colony. Its triumphalist colonial-themed pageantry belied colonists's worries about their own vulnerability. As Dominy shows, the cultural, political, and economic methods used by the garrison compensated for this perceived weakness. Settler elites married their daughters to soldiers to create and preserve an English-speaking oligarchy. At the same time, garrison troops formed the backbone of a consumer market that allowed colonists to form banking and property interests that consolidated their control.

Author : Charles J. Esdaile
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806187990

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Outpost of Empire by Charles J. Esdaile Pdf

Napoleon’s forces invaded Spain in 1808, but two years went by before they overran the southern region of Andalucía. Situated at the farthest frontier of Napoleon’s “outer empire,” Andalucía remained under French control only briefly—for two-and-a-half years—and never experienced the normal functions of French rule. In this groundbreaking examination of the Peninsular War, Charles J. Esdaile moves beyond traditional military history to examine the French occupation of Andalucía and the origins and results of the region’s complex and chaotic response. Disillusioned by the Spanish provisional government and largely unprotected, Andalucía scarcely fired a shot in its defense when Joseph Bonaparte’s army invaded the region in 1810. The subsequent French occupation, however, broke down in the face of multiple difficulties, the most important of which were geography and the continued presence in the region of substantial forces of regular troops. Drawing on British, French, and Spanish sources that are all but unknown, Esdaile describes the social, cultural, geographical, political, and military conditions that combined to make Andalucía particularly resistant to French rule. Esdaile’s study is a significant contribution to the new field sometimes known as occupation studies, which focuses on the ways a victorious army attempts to reconcile a conquered populace to the new political order. Combining military history with political and social history, Outpost of Empire delineates what we now call the cultural terrain of war. This is history that moves from battles between armies to battles for hearts and minds.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Police
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121703297

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Outpost by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lt.-Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782898740

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Napoleon: a History of the Art of War by Lt.-Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge Pdf

Includes over 200 maps, plans, diagrams and uniform prints Lt.-Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge was a soldier of long and bloody experience, having served with the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War losing one of his legs during the battle of Gettysburg. After the end of the war he settled down in retirement to write, he produced a number of excellent works on the recently ended Civil War and his magnum opus “A History of the Art of War”, tracing the advances, changes and major engagements of Western Europe. His work was split into twelve volumes, richly illustrated with cuts of uniforms, portraits and maps, each focussing on periods of history headed by the most prominent military figure; Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick the Great and finally Napoleon. Napoleon and the period which he dominated received such care and attention that Dodge wrote four excellent, authoritative and detailed volumes on him. In Dodge’s concluding volume on Napoleon’s great career covers the battles that would lose Germany for the French cause for good; as his lieutenants are unable to follow through his plans, his tired ragged conscripts cannot match the quality and power of old and struggle blindly with the cavalry that was sacrificed on the steppes of Russia. The missed chances of Lützen and Bautzen and the crowning epic defeat at the Battle of the Emperors at Leipzig force Napoleon back to France, he conjures a brilliant campaign along the rivers of Northern France beating one opponent then another. However, the odds are too much even for Napoleon’s star, and he is forced to abdicate in 1814. Just over a year later he rolls the dice one last time during the Waterloo Campaign, filled with opportunities not taken and orders misplaced, Napoleon is forced in further exile at St. Helena, his military fame undimmed even after a hundred years. A well written, expansive and excellent classic.

Author : Lt Col C. G. Powles
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782892465

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The History Of The Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-1919 [Illustrated Edition] by Lt Col C. G. Powles Pdf

Contains over 60 illustrations and 10 maps. “Great War history of a New Zealand cavalry unit which fought as infantry at Gallipoli, and suffered severe casualties. The Canterbury Rifles resumed its mounted roll in Egypt in the desert campaign culminating in taking Jerusalem and Jericho in 1918. The (New Zealand ) Canterbury Mounted Rifles, like other cavalry units, fought dismounted in the Gallipoli campaign and suffered horrendous losses there. After the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsular, the unit’s remnants were refitted in Egypt and then committed to the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. They took part in the battles of Rafa, Romani and Gaza, and in the advance to Jerusalem and Jericho in 1918. Throughout their time in the desert, they fought in the mounted role for which they had originally been trained. They ended the war after the Armistice by returning to the Gallipoli Peninsular where they had suffered so much. The book is profusely ilustrated by a range of interesting black and white photos; and an appendix on the unit’s horses plus a Roll of Honour, list of awards etc.”—N&M Print Version

Author : Donovan Wylie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 3869303212

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Outposts by Donovan Wylie Pdf

Serving alongside infantry and artillery, military engineers designed a network of outposts throughout Kandahar Province. Built on natural promontories with multiple lines of sight, they formed a protective visual architecture. These images are the latest phase in Wylie's interrogation of the architecture of modern conflict.

Author : Alice Marie Crossland
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911397038

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Wellingtons Dearest Georgy by Alice Marie Crossland Pdf

Using a wealth of unpublished sources, this book tells the story of Lady Georgiana Lennox and the unique friendship she cherished with the 1st Duke of Wellington. Georgy first met the Duke on his return from India when he was serving under her father the Duke of Richmond who was then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The Lennox family moved to Brussels in 1813 and Georgy's mother threw the now legendary Duchess of Richmond's Ball the night before the Battle of Waterloo. Georgy had a front row seat to the battle, and remained in Brussels afterwards to help the many wounded soldiers who returned from the front. Georgy was a beautiful and immensely popular young lady with many suitors during her youth. She and the Duke enjoyed a flirtatious early friendship, which blossomed into an intimate friendship in later years. At twenty-nine Georgy married the future 23rd Baron de Ros who became a diplomatic spy and later Governor of the Tower of London. Georgy had three children, and died at the impressive age of 96, by which time she was one of the last people alive who had been a personal friend of the Iron Duke.

Author : Christopher Summerville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868187

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Who was Who at Waterloo by Christopher Summerville Pdf

Everyone knows about the Battle of Waterloo – or do they? This book presents the battle as never before: through the personal stories of over 150 people present at the battle or its immediate aftermath. A reference book, a biographical dictionary, and a myth-busting expose, Who was Who at Waterloo is an indispensable guide to history’s most famous battle. Arranged in alphabetical order, and with entries highlighted throughout the text like links in a website, the book boasts a colourful cast of soldiers, politicians, peasants, surgeons, artists, novelists, poets, scientists, entrepreneurs, and more. It provides many sorties into nineteenth century culture, politics, medicine and science. It also provides a thorough look at the sources, identifying myths, irregularities and cover-ups. The book demonstrates how little we can really know about Waterloo. And yet it also demonstrates just how much can be said about the battle’s participants.

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Government publications
ISBN : CORNELL:31924093461162

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf