epub |eng | | Author:Barney White-Spunner [White-Spunner, Barney]

5 18 JUNE 1815 Afternoon and Evening It was now three p.m. It was hot, stiflingly hot, the unwashed soldiers slowly steaming in the sun, the still-sodden ground, the trampled ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Robert Gardiner

AN anonymous watercolour showing a British frigate and two cutters close inshore. The cutter to the right, shown getting underway, has no obvious gunports but the clinker-built one in the ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-14 | Author:Macdonald, Janet;

The 8th Duke of Hamilton (centre) with Dr Moore (left) and the young John Moore (right). Sir John Moore by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Monument to Sir John Moore in Glasgow. ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Philip Haythornthwaite

French dragoons employed as heavy battlefield cavalry: a trooper of the 16e Dragons at the charge. He wears the simpler single-breasted green surtout coatee of this branch, with pink regimental ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ian Fletcher

Another view of Badajoz, published by Edward Orme in 1812. British troops march towards the bridge while the familiar skyline of the town stands in the background. Apart from the ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-13 | Author:G. Chandler, David;

XVIII A general of ordinary talent occupying a bad position, and surprised by a superior force, seeks his safety in retreat; but a great captain supplies all deficiencies by his ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Philip Haythornthwaite

Fusiliers-Grenadiers Like that of the Fusiliers-Chasseurs, the uniform of the Fusiliers-Grenadiers was styled upon that of their parent corps, the Grenadiers à Pied. A German watercolour (probably by Kolbe) c. ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-16 | Author:Jac Weller

IX The Mahratta War Begins Wellesley’s orders were issued for the morning of 7 August 1803: at sunrise the army was to march the seven miles to Ahmednuggur. The monsoon ...

epub |eng | | Author:Brendan Simms [Simms, Brendan]

Napoleon now staked everything on a last throw. The Prussians were arriving in large numbers on his right flank and could no longer be stopped. If he could plough through ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-24 | Author:Terence Wise

23. Portugal: battalion flag of the 9th Line Infantry, 1806 pattern. (The bugle horn is shown in error; this should be the ribbon and cross device shown correctly in Plate ...

epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:Alessandro Barbero

PART THREE “A Stand-up Fight Between Two Pugilists” FORTY - TWO “IT DOES INDEED LOOK VERY BAD” When the cavalry duels stopped for a moment in the no-man’s-land between the ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Charles Esdaile

To the devil with files of papers when I am on the point of making the enemy listen to reason at the cannon’s mouth. Never shall I be able to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Keegan, John [Keegan, John]

Disintegration In the last hour of the battle which followed the Imperial Guard’s flight, the order which the tension of combat had imposed on both armies dissolved. Among the Allies, ...