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The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It by David A. Bell
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:David A. Bell [Bell, David A.]

7 Days of Glory Today . . . no government would dare say to its nation: Let us go conquer the world. —BENJAMIN CONSTANT, 1813 I wanted to rule the ...
( Category: France March 23,2016 )
With Napoleon's Guard in Russia by Jonathan North & Louis Joseph Vionnet
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Jonathan North & Louis Joseph Vionnet

Smolensk Again On the 8th we camped close to a few barns which had escaped the fires. The emperor’s wagons were halted here, some eighteen miles from Smolensk. I now ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars January 21,2016 )
The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Mike Rapport
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Mike Rapport [Rapport, Mike]

6. Public bonfires of British contraband, like this one in Amsterdam in 1812, were aimed at reinforcing Napoleon’s blockade of Europe, but they also appalled mercantile communities already suffering from ...
( Category: France January 8,2016 )
The Year of Waterloo by Stephen Bates
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Bates [Bates, Stephen]

By 1815 Captain Barclay was having troubles of his own and he was certainly not fighting Napoleon, having retired from the army after the Walcheren expedition so he could devote ...
( Category: Great Britain November 4,2015 )
Waterloo Battlefield Guide by David Burrery
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-19 | Author:David Burrery

The stone recording the stand of the British 27th (Inninskilling) Regiment of Foot who endured terrible losses defending this area. It is rare for a military unit to sustain such ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars October 13,2015 )
The Scum of the Earth by Colin Brown
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:Colin Brown

Late in the day I was called by some officers of the 3rd Guards defending Hougoumont to use my best endeavours to send them musket ammunition. Soon afterwards I fell ...
( Category: Great Britain October 11,2015 )
The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes by Mark Urban
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-12-31 | Author:Mark Urban [Urban, Mark]

Dorsenne’s dispatch was crassly enciphered, as bad in its way as the General Montbrun letter of August 1811 that had proven vital to the breaking of the Army of Portugal ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars March 3,2015 )
Scipio Africanus by B.h. Liddell Hart
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:B.h. Liddell Hart

Following up Syphax, Lælius and Masinissa arrived in Massylia (Masinissa’s hereditary kingdom from which he had been driven) after a fifteen days’ march, and there expelled the garrisons left by ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars September 16,2014 )
Masters of the Battlefield by Davis Paul K
epub |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:Davis, Paul K.

GUSTAVUS NEXT HAD TO MEET the redoubtable Albrecht von Wallenstein, once again the commander of imperial forces. Born in 1583 to poor but noble parents, Wallenstein served in wars against ...
( Category: Military June 6,2014 )
Napoleon by Paul Johnson
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Paul Johnson

Other famous German creators were more circumspect but equally dismissive. At the spectacular meeting of kings and princes at Erfurt in the autumn of 1808, Goethe, as Germany’s leading writer ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Waterloo by Andrew Roberts
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-07-06 | Author:Andrew Roberts

4 The Fourth Phase ALTHOUGH THE DEFENCE of La Haye Sainte had been heroic, Major Baring’s increasingly desperate requests for ammunition had not been heeded. Wellington freely admitted after the ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars March 25,2014 )

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