Download or read book Historical Records of The Buffs 1704 1814 written by Charles Raleigh Bruère Knight and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book 1704 1814 written by Charles Raleigh Bruère Knight and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Impossible Victories written by Bryan Perrett and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military historian takes an in-depth look at a selection of surprising battlefield successes. Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds—victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counterattack, an unexpected maneuver, a stubborn refusal to be beaten, and the impossible victory is won. In the ten dramatic episodes in this book, military historian Bryan Perrett revisits battles from the Peninsula War of 1811 to Vietnam in 1967, via colonial action in two world wars.

Download or read book Albuera Eyewitness written by Guy Dempsey and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2023-07-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War’s most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march of the French field marshal Soult, who was trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, twelve miles to the north. However, after suffering losses of up to 7,000 men during the fighting, Wellington declared that, ‘Another such battle will ruin us’. One British regiment, the 57th Foot, suffered casualties of more than 50 per cent. Similarly, the French fought with enormous tenacity, and sustained almost equally heavy losses. The stories from those who fought in the battle on both sides make for both chilling and inspiring reading. These contemporaneous accounts include letters, diaries, official correspondence, army records, maps, newspaper reports and memoirs totaling over 100 contemporary accounts of the battle. They range from the comprehensive after-action reports of the British, Portuguese, Spanish and French commanders to casualty and prisoner lists and to recollections of individual soldiers from all the combatant armies. The purpose of this book is to tell the story of the battle exclusively by way of these primary sources, with English translations for foreign language sources, along with, in each case, a commentary identifying the source and its context. The heart of the work will be a vast number of first-hand accounts providing astonishing details of the intense fighting including the heroism of the Spanish troops, the massacre of Colborne’s brigade by Polish lancers, Beresford’s near-fatal indecisiveness, and the heroic charge of the Fusilier brigade. This presentation allows readers avid for detailed historical information to draw their own conclusions about how the events of the battle unfolded.

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Download or read book Talavera written by Andrew W. Field and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Waterloo shares an extensive history of the Battle of Talavera between the British & Spanish and the French. The Battle of Talavera was one of the key confrontations of the Peninsular War. In a bloody contest the British and Spanish under Wellesley and Cuesta won a tactical victory over the French forces of Victor and Joseph Bonaparte. The battle was the climax of the offensive launched by Wellesley and his Spanish allies to expel the French from Madrid. Andrew Field’s graphic analysis is the first full-length reassessment to be published in recent times. Using documentary records, eyewitness accounts, and a painstaking study of the terrain, he reconstructs the action in vivid detail and questions assumptions about the event that have grown up over the last 200 years. He also provides an extensive tour of the battlefield.

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Download or read book A Polite and Commercial People written by Paul Langford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Sir George Clark's Oxford History of England was published in 1934. Over the following 50 years that series established itself as a standard work of reference, and a repertoire of scholarship. The New Oxford History of England, of which this is the first volume, is its successor. Each volume will set out an authoritative view of the present state of scholarship, presenting a distillation of the knowledge built up by a half-century's research and publication of new sources, and incorporating the perspectives and judgements of modern scholars.

Download or read book The Bloody Eleventh 1685 1815 written by R. E. R. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peninsular War(1) Arrival in Spain - Busaco August 1809-September 1810; (2) To Torres Vedras and Back to the Coa 28th Sptember 1810-8th April 1811; (3) The Almeida Drama and the March to Arronches and Back April-December 1811; (4) The Marching Division 1st January-10th June 1812; (5) The Salamanca Forts - Advance to the Duero and Back 13th June-21st July 1812; (6) Salamanca 22nd July 1812; (7)The Nightmare of Burgos and the Retreat to Portugal 23rd July-December 1812; (8) Farewell to Portugal and the Great Flank March to Vittoria November 1812-24th June 1813; (9) Sorauren("Pyrenees") 22nd June-30th July 1813; (10) Info France - Crossing the Bidassoa - Nivelle - Nive 31st July-13th December 1813; (11) Crossing the Gaves - Orthes - Tarbes 13th December 1813-20th March 1814;(12) Toulouse 21st March-10th April 1814; Conclusion: The End of an Era and the Way ahead.

Download or read book Anglo Zulu War 1879 written by Harold E. Raugh and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Zulu War was one of many colonial campaigns in which the British Army served as the instrument of British imperialism. The conflict, fought against a native adversary the British initially under-estimated, is remarkable for battles that included perhaps the most humiliating defeat in British military history-the Battle of Isandlwana, January 22, 1879-and one of its most heroic feats of martial arms-the defense of Rorke's Drift, January 22-23, 1879. While lasting only six months, it is one of the most examined, studied, and debated conflicts in Victorian military history. Anglo-Zulu War, 1879: A Selected Bibliography is a research guide and tool for identifying obscure publications and source materials in order to encourage continued original and thought-provoking contributions to this popular field of historical study. From the student or neophyte to the study of the Anglo-Zulu War, its battles, and its opponents to the more experienced historian or scholar, this selected bibliography is a must for anyone interested in the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War.

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Download or read book Historical Records of The Buffs East Kent Regiment 3rd Foot Formerly Designated the Holland Regiment and Prince George of Denmark s Regiment written by Charles Raleigh Bruère Knight and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: