Download or read book Adventures of a Light Dragoon in the Napoleonic wars written by George Farmer and published by . This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MORE ENGAGING THAN A NOVEL - A CAVALRYMAN'S LIFE IN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AND BATTLES FOR INDIA. Trooper Farmer's military career was packed with adventure and incident. Through his words the reader experiences life in the British Light Cavalry on campaign in Spain against the French. During one sharp action Farmer is taken prisoner and we follow him through captivity until his release at the First Restoration. Napoleon's return puts him back in the saddle once again to go to war on the bloody field of Waterloo. Although he had already experienced enough action for a lifetime Farmer was then dispatched to India to play his part in the early days of the conquest of the sub-continent. A gripping military memoir!
Download or read book The Light Dragoon written by George Robert Gleig and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gallantry and Discipline written by Andrew Bamford and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 12th Light Dragoons served throughout Wellington's campaigns in the Peninsula, most notably at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812, and later at Waterloo where they suffered heavy casualties supporting the Union Brigade's famous charge. The principal source for this book are the papers of Sir James Steaurt _ Colonel of the regiment for almost all of the period in question _ supplemented by other regimental records, Horse Guards paperwork, and letters and memoirs, allowing both an official understanding of events, and several threads of human interest which develop through the narrative.??The book is divided into two halves, first providing an overview of the regiment and the role of Steuart as Colonel, before moving onto an account of the regiment on home service during the early years of the Napoleonic Wars and then on active service in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. This concludes with a discussion of the lessons learnt during the war, as particularly exemplified by the 12th being one of the regiments selected for conversion to lancers in the aftermath of Waterloo.
Download or read book The Light Dragoon written by George Robert Gleig and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Light Dragoon written by George Robert Gleig and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Record of the Third Or the King s Own Regiment of Light Dragoons written by Richard Cannon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historical Record of the Third or The King's Regiment of Light Dragoons" is one of the regimental records for the British Army, compiled by Richard Cannon. The record follows the regiment's history from its formation in 1685 to 1846. The author describes the battles and military operations the regiment was engaged in, the achievements and trophies they got in battles, etc.
Download or read book Adventures with the Connaught Rangers 1809 1814 written by William Grattan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Adventures with the Connaught Rangers, 1809-1814" by William Grattan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Fighting 14th written by Henry Blackburne Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A famous cavalry regiment at war with Napoleon As its commanding officer and as a noted Oxford University academic Colonel Henry Hamilton was well placed to write the history of the 14th (King's) Hussars. His full regimental history covers from the origins of the regiment in 1715 to its service during the Boer War at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. While some military history students require a work of this depth, there are those who are primarily concerned with the periods when regiments were on active service. For the 14th (King's) Hussars in the 19th century, this was during the Napoleonic Wars, principally during the Peninsular War in Spain and in the South of France, and later in India where as H. M 14th (King's) Light Dragoons they served with distinction in the Second Sikh War and during the Indian Mutiny. By carefully editing Hamilton's book, and adding illustrations and maps and supplementary material not originally present, the Leonaur editors have created two linked volumes that focus on these periods of the regiment's history. The Fighting 14th follows the campaigns under Wellington and will be an essential addition to the library of every student of the war in the Iberian peninsula. It benefits from the inclusion of a number of significant passages from the memoirs of one of the regiments most renowned and daring officers, Captain Thomas Brotherton, whose entertaining and compellingly recounted adventures bring the history of this cavalry regiment vibrantly to life. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Download or read book With Wellington s Light Cavalry written by William Tomkinson and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Wellington's Light Cavalry - Campaigning with the 16th Light Dragoons in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. A cavalryman's story that could have ended before it began. In the first chapter Tomkinson and his 16th Light Dragoons rashly charge into the rearguard of the French Army and he is shot and bayoneted. But in 1810 Tomkinson is once again in Spain fighting the French. This book is a fine example of a personal account filled with personal and unit detail combined with a clear and informative narrative of the campaigns in which the writer was engaged. A substantial read by any standards, the final 55 pages are devoted to Tomkinson's first hand experience of the 1815 campaign culminating in Napoleon's downfall at Waterloo.
Download or read book The Light Dragoon Classic Reprint written by G. R. Gleig and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Light Dragoon Well, then, I enlisted in London; and, marching to Maidstone, underwent the customary. Examinations after. Which, I was attested before a magistrate, and had my bounty paid with strict exactitude. Unfortunately for me, however, the society into which I was thrown bore no resemblance at all to a well-re ulated regiment. The barracks were filled with small etachments from a countless variety of corps, and the sergeants and cor porals, on whom the internal discipline both of regiments and depots mainly depends, seem to me, at this distance of time, to have been selected from the very scum of the earth. Like a band of h ies, they pounced upon us recruits, and never let us oose from their talons till they had thoroughly pigeoned us. We were invited to their, rooms of an evemng, - introduced to their wives, who made much of us, raised, .favoured, screened, and cajoled, till our funds egan to run low, and then they would have nothing more to say to us. Under these circumstances, we were sufiiciently well pleased when the order came to join the regiment at Clonmel a and, being put in charge of one Corporal Gorman, we began our journe profoundly ignorant both of the route we were to ollow, and the extent of funds which would be allowed us during the continuance of the march. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Light Dragoon written by George Robert Gleig and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Download or read book Historical Record of the Fourteenth or the King s Regiment of Light Dragoons written by Richard Cannon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historical Record of the Fourteenth, or the King's, Regiment of Light Dragoons" by Richard Cannon. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Castlereagh written by John Bew and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardly is a figure more maligned in British history than Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh. One of the central figures of the Napoleonic Era and the man primarily responsible for fashioning Britain's strategy at the Congress of Vienna, Castlereagh was widely respected by the great powers of Europe and America, yet despised by his countrymen and those he sought to serve. A shrewd diplomat, he is credited with being one of the first great practitioners of Realpolitik and its cold-eyed and calculating view of the relations between nations. Over the course of his career, he crushed an Irish rebellion and abolished the Irish parliament, imprisoned his former friends, created the largest British army in history, and redrew the map of Europe. Today, Castlereagh is largely forgotten except as a tyrant who denied the freedoms won by the French and American revolutions. John Bew's fascinating biography restores the statesman to his place in history, offering a nuanced picture of a shy, often inarticulate figure whose mind captured the complexity of the European Enlightenment unlike any other. Bew tells a gripping story, beginning with the Year of the French, when Napoleon sent troops in support of a revolution in Ireland, and traces Castlereagh's evolution across the Napoleonic Wars, the diplomatic power struggles of 1814-15, and eventually the mental breakdown that ended his life. Skillfully balancing the dimensions of Castlereagh's intellectual life with his Irish heritage, Bew's definitive work brings Castleragh alive in all his complexity, variety, and depth.
Download or read book Adventures of Gerard written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1903 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I hope that some readers may possibly be interested in these little tales of the Napoleonic soldiers to the extent of following them up to the springs from which they flow. The age was rich in military material, some of it the most human and the most picturesque that I have ever read. Setting aside historical works or the biographies of the leaders there is a mass of evidence written by the actual fighting men themselves, which describes their feelings and their experiences, stated always from the point of view of the particular branch of the service to which they belonged. The Cavalry were particularly happy in their writers of memoirs. Thus De Rocca in his "Memoires sur la guerre des Francais en Espagne" has given the narrative of a Hussar, while De Naylies in his "Memoires sur la guerre d'Espagne" gives the same campaigns from the point of view of the Dragoon. Then we have the "Souvenirs Militaires du Colonel de Gonneville," which treats a series of wars, including that of Spain, as seen from under the steel-brimmed hair-crested helmet of a Cuirassier. Pre-eminent among all these works, and among all military memoirs, are the famous reminiscences of Marbot, which can be obtained in an English form. Marbot was a Chasseur, so again we obtain the Cavalry point of view. Among other books which help one to an understanding of the Napoleonic soldier I would specially recommend "Les Cahiers du Capitaine Coignet," which treat the wars from the point of view of the private of the Guards, and "Les Memoires du Sergeant Bourgoyne," who was a non-commissioned officer in the same corps. The Journal of Sergeant Fricasse and the Recollections of de Fezenac and of de Segur complete the materials from which I have worked in my endeavour to give a true historical and military atmosphere to an imaginary figure.
Download or read book Napoleonic Heavy Cavalry Dragoon Tactics written by Philip Haythornthwaite and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Napoleonic Wars the supreme battlefield shock weapon was the heavy cavalry – the French cuirassiers, and their British, Austrian, Prussian and Russian counterparts. Big men mounted on big horses, the heavy cavalry were armed with swords nearly a metre long, used for slashing or thrusting at their opponents; many wore steel armour, a practice revived by Napoleon. They were tasked with smashing a hole in the enemy's line of battle, with exploiting a weakness, or with turning a flank. Their classic manoeuvre was the charge; arrayed in close-order lines or columns, the heavy cavalry would begin their attack at the walk, building up to a gallop for the final 50 metres before impact. Illustrated with diagrams, relevant paintings and prints and specially prepared colour plates, this is the first volume of a two-part study of the cavalry tactics of the armies of Napoleon and those of his allies and opponents. Written by a leading authority on the period, it draws upon drill manuals and later writings to offer a vivid assessment of how heavy cavalry actually fought on the Napoleonic battlefield.
Download or read book Napoleonic Wars Historical Adventure Collection written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Conan Doyle was a prolific writer of historical fiction with special interest and affection towards Napoleon's era._x000D_ "The Great Shadow" takes place in the Napoleonic era on the English-Scottish border city called West Inch. It refers to the Napoleon's influence and his reputation that forms a shadow over West Inch._x000D_ "Uncle Bernac" – Louis de Laval, a young French aristocrat in exile receives a mysterious invitation to join his uncle Bernac in France and enter into Napoleon's service. The novels follows the adventures of Louis and Bernac, and the story of life in Napoleon's camp on the French Coast._x000D_ "Brigadier Gerard Stories" – Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity. Obsessed with honor and glory, he is always ready with a stirring speech or a gallant remark to a lady._x000D_ The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard_x000D_ How the Brigadier Came to the Castle of Gloom_x000D_ How the Brigadier Slew the Brothers of Ajaccio_x000D_ How the Brigadier Held the King_x000D_ How the King Held the Brigadier_x000D_ How the Brigadier Took the Field Against the Marshal Millefleurs_x000D_ How the Brigadier Played For a Kingdom_x000D_ How the Brigadier Won His Medal_x000D_ How the Brigadier Was Tempted By the Devil_x000D_ The Crime of the Brigadier_x000D_ The Adventures of Gerard_x000D_ How Brigadier Gerard Lost His Ear_x000D_ How the Brigadier Captured Saragossa_x000D_ How the Brigadier Slew the Fox_x000D_ How the Brigadier Saved the Army_x000D_ How the Brigadier Triumphed in England_x000D_ How the Brigadier Rode to Minsk_x000D_ How the Brigadier Bore Himself at Waterloo_x000D_ I. The Story of the Forest Inn_x000D_ II. The Story of the Nine Prussian Horsemen_x000D_ The Last Adventure of the Brigadier_x000D_ The Marriage of the Brigadier_x000D_ Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes._x000D_
Download or read book Historical Record of the Fifteenth Or the King s Regiment of Light Dragoons Hussars written by Richard Cannon and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
