Download or read book History Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade written by William Willoughby Cole Verner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History And Campaigns Of The Rifle Brigade Vol II 1800 1809 written by Colonel Willoughby Verner and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Rifle Brigade from 1809 to 1813 - mainly Peninsular War in which the regiment was involved from start to finish. On 10th May 1809 the strength of the 1st Battalion was 1,536 and the 2nd 1,579 and so a 3rd Battalion was formed. The unfortunate 2nd Battalion was involved in the Walcheren expedition August to December 1809 and when our troops evacuated the place battle deaths had amounted to 111, deaths from disease numbered over 4,000. But the main subject in this volume is the Peninsular War in which the regiment played a very active part from beginning to end. All three battalions were involved and seventeen Battle Honours were awarded, the highest number for any regiment in that campaign. The descriptions of operations are in detail, supported by superb maps. Throughout his account the author draws upon contemporary sources, official correspondence, despatches, reports, letters, diaries, reminiscences and on the work of such historians as Fortescue and Oman. —Print Ed.
Download or read book History And Campaigns Of The Rifle Brigade Vol I 1800 1809 written by Colonel Willoughby Verner and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of The Rifle Brigade from its formation in 1800, its organization, uniform, equipment, arms and training and battles ending at Corunna in January 1809. The Rifle Brigade was formed in 1800 by detachments from various regiments as the ‘Experimental Corps of Riflemen’ initially and then ‘Rifle Corps’. It was under this name that the new regiment first made its mark under Nelson in the following year at the Battle of Copenhagen. In 1803 it was designated the 95th (Rifle) Regiment and in 1816, after Waterloo, it was taken out of the numbered regiments of the line and styled ‘The Rifle Brigade.’ In this first part the author, who served in the regiment, traces the evolution of the Rifle Corps with the advent of the rifle, which replaced the musket, and its effect on tactics...Dress, drill, equipment and armament all feature and the important period spent at Shorncliffe when Sir John Moore, the father of the Light Brigade, commanded the garrison; he was then regarded as “ the best trainer of troops England has ever possessed.” The first taste of action came with the Ferrol Expedition in 1800 which had the destruction of the Spanish base. The ‘Experimental Corps of Riflemen’ contributed detachments numbering 170 under the command of Stewart. They were first ashore on 25th August and it was the only corps in action on that day, which henceforth was celebrated as the birthday of the Regiment. During the next nine years covered in this book the regiment served on many fronts—Copenhagen, Germany, Monte Video, Buenos Ayres and finally the Peninsula where the 2nd Battalion arrived on 12th July 1808 and fought its first action against the French, at Rolica on 17th August. This first part ends with the terrible retreat to and battle of Corunna in January 1809 where Moore “was struck down by a round shot ......the ball carrying away his left shoulder and leaving his arm hanging by the exposed tendons.” Moore died of his wounds that same evening.—Print Ed.
Download or read book History and Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade written by William Willoughby Cole Verner and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History and Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade written by William Willoughby Cole Verner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Rifle Brigade the Prince Consort s Own Formerly the 95th written by Sir William Henry Cope and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History and Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade 1800 1809 written by Willoughby Verner and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rifle Brigade was formed in 1800 by detachments from various regiments as the Experimental Corps of Riflemen initially and then Rifle Corps . It was under this name that the new regiment first made its mark under Nelson in the following year at the Battle of Copenhagen. In 1803 it was designated the 95th (Rifle) Regiment and in 1816, after Waterloo, it was taken out of the numbered regiments of the line and styled The Rifle Brigade. In this first part the author, who served in the regiment, traces the evolution of the Rifle Corps with the advent of the rifle, which replaced the musket, and its effect on tactics. The two principal architects of this new Corps were Colonel Coote Manningham who brought it into existence, and Lt Col William Stewart who organized and trained it. Dress, drill, equipment and armament all feature and the important period spent at Shorncliffe when Sir John Moore, the father of the Light Brigade, commanded the garrison; he was then regarded as the best trainer of troops England has ever possessed. The first taste of action came with the Ferrol Expedition in 1800 which had the destruction of the Spanish base. The Experimental Corps of Riflemen contributed detachments numbering 170 under the command of Stewart. They were first ashore on 25th August and it was the only corps in action on that day, which henceforth was celebrated as the birthday of the Regiment. During the next nine years covered in this book the regiment served on many fronts - Copenhagen, Germany, Monte Video, Buenos Ayres and finally the Peninsula where the 2nd Battalion arrived on 12th July 1808 and fought its first action against the French, at Rolica on 17th August. This first part ends with the terrible retreat to and battle of Corunna in January 1809 where Moore was struck down by a round shot ......the ball carrying away his left shoulder and leaving his arm hanging by the exposed tendons. Moore died of his wounds that same evening.
Download or read book History Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade 1800 1809 Part II 1809 1813 written by William Willoughby Cole Verner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade written by William Willoughby Cole Verner and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Rifle Brigade The Prince Consort s Own Formerly the 95th written by William Henry Cope and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book History Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade By Colonel Willoughby Verner 1800 1813 With Maps and Plates written by Great Britain. Army. Infantry. Regiments. Rifle Brigade and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade written by Willoughby Verner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twenty five years in the Rifle Brigade Edited by J Surtees written by William Surtees and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales from the Rifle Brigade written by John Kincaid and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Napoleon's troops, the sharp shooters of the 95th (Rifle) Regiment were 'the rascals in green', famed throughout Europe for their bravery, skill, and dash. Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade was the first book to be published by a veteran, recounting the amazing escapades of this legendary unit in the war against French armies in Portugal and Spain. His second volume, Random Shots From a Rifleman, is just as vivid and memorable as the first, and finishes with a remarkable first-hand description of the Waterloo campaign from the ordinary soldier's point of view. The two volumes, here bound together in abridged form, add up to one of the most enthralling eyewitness records of regimental soldiering ever written. Although other Rifles memoirs quickly followed, none achieved the commercial or critical success of Kincaid's collection of unforgettable anecdotes.
Download or read book The Rifle Brigade Chronicle written by Great Britain. Army. Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventures In The Rifle Brigade written by John Kincaid and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1998-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures in the Rifle Brigade is probably the most well-known and most popular of the many memoirs written by the men who served under Wellington in the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns. The author, Captain John Kincaid, served in the 95th Rifles, the most famous of Wellington's regiments, a regiment which ‘was first in the field and last out'. Kincaid fought in most of the great campaigns in the Peninsula between 1809 and 1814 and at Waterloo, in 1815, where he served as adjutant to the 1st Battalion of the Regiment. The beauty of this memoir is the way in which Kincaid paints a picture, and a very humourous and entertaining too, of life on campaign in Wellington's army. The book also has its serious nature, of course, for Kincaid witnessed some of the bloodiest episodes of the war, none more than Badajoz, where the 95th, part of the famous Light Division, was hurled at the massive forbidding walls more than forty times in a vain attempt to pass the breaches. Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, the 1835 first edition of which is reproduced in facsimile here, is history at its very best; informative, enlightening and perceptive, hard fact mixed with humour, a vivid portrayal of life on campaign in one of the most famous regiments in the British army, and most importantly, enjoyable and vastly entertaining.
Download or read book The History of the Rifle Brigade written by William H. Cope and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the Rifle Brigade: The Prince Consort's Own Formerly the 95th Costello's little work3 has also afforded me much information; and he has recorded many circumstances unnoticed or lightly touched upon by others. 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.
