Download or read book Wellington s Right Hand written by Joanna Hill and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most unlikely soldiers of his day, General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill of Almarez was imaginative, brave – and perhaps more surprisingly for the period in which he lived and fought – compassionate towards those under his command. This is the compelling story of one of history's forgotten heroes, a man who frequently led from the front in some of the deadliest battles of the Napoleonic Wars. Hill was given his own 'detached' corps and fought his way through Spain, Portugal and France, winning battles against the odds – such at St Pierre, where he defeated the redoubtable Marechal Soult when outnumbered two to one. When ministers at home asked that Hill be allowed to leave the Peninsula and lead an army elsewhere, Wellington dismissed the idea with 'Would you cut off my right hand?' Hill fought at Roliça, Corunna, Talavera, Bussaco, Almarez, Vitoria and Waterloo. He succeeded the Duke in 1828 as Commander-in-Chief of the forces and served as such until he resigned in 1842, a period marked by civil unrest that he reluctantly was obliged to confront. Based upon the Hill papers and a wide range of other primary sources, Wellington's Right Hand is an important addition to the literature of the Napoleonic age and in particular to that of the Peninsular War. Writer and historian Joanna Hill is the great, great, great niece of Rowland Hill and as such has gained unique access to the Hill family archives. In April 2005, she published her first book on the Hill family, The Hills of Hawkstone and Attingham; the Rise, Shine and Decline of a Shropshire Family. Serendipity has sometimes led her life in the footsteps of her illustrious ancestor. While working at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University's post graduate department for the history of art and archaeology, she spent three very hot seasons excavating in the Nile Delta of Egypt, a few kilometres from the site of one of the General's very first battles, at Aboukir in 1801. She currently lives with her husband (and an international champion Skye terrier, Dougal) in a 13th-century hilltop bastide village in South West France. This is just a short distance north of St Pierre d'Irube at the foot of the Pyrenees, where Rowland Hill won his very own general action in the closing stages of the Peninsular War in December 1813. When the victorious British cavalry rode home through France from Toulouse to the channel ports in May the following year, they must have passed by.
Download or read book Original Sins written by Matt Rowland Hill and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*? “A shattering portrait of addiction—generously open, desperately honest and confronting.” —Catherine Cho, author of Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness An electrifying debut memoir of a pastor’s son chronicling his loss of faith, his addiction to heroin and our universal quest to find something to believe in Matt Rowland Hill had two great loves in his life: Jesus and heroin. The son of an evangelical minister, Hill grew up with an unwavering devotion to the tenets of his parents’ Baptist church. But by high school, he began to experience a crisis of faith. To fill the void, he turned to literature, and then to heroin and cocaine. By his twenties, Hill’s substance abuse escalated into a full-on addiction. As he grew increasingly suicidal, he knew he had to come to terms with both religion and drugs to survive. Hill’s debut is an extraordinary, gorgeously crafted memoir of faith, family, loss, shame and addiction. But ultimately, Original Sins is a raw portrait of survival—of growing up and learning how to live.
Download or read book The Life of Rowland Hill written by Edwin Sidney and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rowland Hill written by Vernon J. Charlesworth and published by Aneko Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowland Hill was humorous, but he was a great deal more, and those who know his lifework will not remember him as exemplifying one single quality, but as a good, childlike man in whom nothing for Christ was restrained. Considering him as he was overall, we will not soon see anyone like him again. There was no dishonesty or duplicity in him. He loved his Lord and the souls of men, and he threw all his might into the pursuit of doing good. Certainly few men were ever more unselfish. People called him eccentric because they themselves were out of center. With his great heart, calm soul, wise mind, and loving nature, he had learned to wait upon his Lord, and so had found the right center and true course for his being. At first, the press had its sneers for him, but it could not lessen the respect in which he was held, and in due time it turned around and joined in the chorus of his praise. His riper years were full of honor, and like his younger days, they were full of fruit unto God.
Download or read book The Life of the Rev Rowland Hill written by Edwin Sidney and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of the Rev Rowland Hill written by Elizabeth Sidney and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of the Rev Rowland Hill A M written by Edwin Sidney and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Rowland Hill written by Eleanor C. Hill Smyth and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sir Rowland Hill" by Eleanor C. Hill Smyth. 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 Memoir of the Rev Rowland Hill M A written by Will Jones and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir of the Rev Rowland Hill With a preface by J Sherman written by William JONES (M.A., Baptist Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage written by Sir Rowland Hill and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Answer to Mr Rowland Hill s Tract Entitled Imposture Detected written by John Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remarks on the Rev Rowland Hill s Journal c written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An answer to Mr Rowland Hill s tract entitled Imposture detected The third edition written by John Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facts and Reasons in Support of Mr Rowland Hill s Plan for a Universal Penny Postage written by William Henry Ashurst and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facts and Reasons in support of Mr Rowland Hill s Plan Second edition written by W. H. ASHURST (of New Bridge Street, Blackfriars.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remarks on the Rev Rowland Hill s Journal c in a letter to the author including reflections on itinerant and lay preaching written by John JAMIESON (D.D. of Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
