Download or read book Journals of Sieges Carried on by the Army Under the Duke of Wellington in Spain Between the Years 1811 and 1814 written by Sir John Thomas Jones (bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Journals of Sieges Carried on by the Army Under the Duke of Wellington in Spain During the Years 1811 to 1814 Also Memoranda Relative to the Lines Thrown Up to Cover Lisbon in 1810 3rd Ed Edited by H D Jones written by Sir John Thomas Jones and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journals of Sieges Carried On by The Army under the Duke of Wellington in Spain during the Years 1811 to 1814 Volume I written by Major-General Sir John T. Jones and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic, immensely detailed description of the many sieges of the long drawn-out war that was Britain's major land contribution to the defeat of Napoleon. Sir John Jones was an officer of the Royal Engineers with Wellington in Portugal and Spain and intimately connected with the operations he describes so exactly. Sir John originally wrote his work to draw attention to what he considered were Britain's inadequate 'siege establishments’ and equipment which, he claimed, made some of the war’s sieges more bloody and drawn-out affairs than they need have been. Students of sieges and of military history generally should be grateful that Jones’ massive and meticulous work, illustrated with numerous plans, charts and maps - is once more generally available.

Download or read book Journals of Sieges Carried on by the Army Under the Duke of Wellington in Spain During the Years 1811 to 1814 written by Sir John Thomas Jones (bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journals of Sieges Carried on by the Army Under the Duke of Wellington in Spain During the Years 1811 to 1814 written by Sir John Thomas Jones (bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wellington in the Peninsula 1808 1814 written by Jac Weller and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-05-19 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Wellington at Waterloo delivers an in-depth history of the military commander’s tactics and strategy in the Peninsular War. After gaining strategic and tactical experience in Colonial India, Arthur Wellesley went to battle against French forces in the Peninsular War. With his decisive victories there, he ascended to the peerage of the United Kingdom as the 1st Duke of Wellington. Inthis volume, historian Jac Weller delivers a complete account of Wellington’s career on the Iberian Peninsula, covering all the battles in which he took part. Talavera, The battles of Busaco, Salamanca and Vitoria are among the famous conflicts Weller brings to life in the lively chronicle, combining meticulous research with extensive visits to the historic battlefields. Supplementing his accessible narrative with photographs, Weller demonstrates how this great commander finally achieved victory after six years of battle against Napoleon’s army.

Download or read book Wellington s Men Remembered Volume 1 written by Janet Bromley and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work to be published in two volumes, which has been compiled on behalf of the The Waterloo Association containing over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 28 countries world wide.

Download or read book The British Army Against Napoleon written by Robert Burnham and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the bewildering number of tomes devoted to the Napoleonic wars, much basic data as been hitherto unavailable to anyone other than the most ardent scholars. McGuigan and Burnham have collected a tremendous treasure trove of information in a readily accessible form. Other books may tell you how many regiments were sent on the expedition to Hanover in 1805, but The British Army against Napoleon will tell you where every single regiment in the British army was stationed, who were their honorary colonels, and give you a list of all the barracks in Britain with the number of men they were designed to hold. Where else will you find not just the pay of different ranked officers but the amount of income tax they paid, as well as all the other deductions and stoppages that reduced their actual receipts to a fraction of their nominal (and generally quite low) pay? Or pension charts for widows? There are tables that list all the recipients of the honours and awards issued, casualties in action and disease, seniority of officers of the numerous expeditions and campaigns (a matter not just of curiosity but of major significance, for the date of rank of an officer determined who commanded the force and all of its sub-units.) The material in these tables has been collected from countless primary sources and official publications such as the Army List, London Gazette, Wellington s Dispatches, regimental histories, artillery manuals, and handbooks.

Download or read book Burgos in the Peninsular War 1808 1814 written by C. Esdaile and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a full month in the autumn of 1812 the 2,000-strong garrison of the fortress the French had constructed to overawe the city of Burgos defied the Duke of Wellington. In this work a leading historian of the Peninsular teams up with a leading conflict archaeologist to examine the reasons for Wellington's failure.

Download or read book Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars A Concise Dictionary 1792 1815 written by Kevin F. Kiley and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive military history reference book exploring all aspects of the artillery used during the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon began his military career as an artillery cadet and artillery played a fundamental part in all his great battles. Until the Napoleonic Wars artillery had been seen merely as a supporting arm to the infantry, but Napoleon changed everything. He massed his guns in huge batteries to blast holes in his opponent’s line. He even used the artillery to charge the enemy, the gunners galloping up to the enemy to open fire at pointblank range. Napoleon’s opponents did not all follow suit, choosing other tactical deployments. As a result, the Napoleonic era, more than any that preceded or followed it, was one of fascinating artillery maneuvers and critical actions that changed the course of many of the key battles. As the Prussian Field Marshal Blucher once observed, “Against Napoleon you needed guns – and lots of them!” The Napoleonic Wars was also a time of innovation, with the introduction of shrapnel shells and military rockets. This book will examine the artillery arms of all sides from ‘muzzle to butt plate’. As well as the significant artillerymen of the period, the scientists, and innovators, military and civilian—individuals such as Robins, Belidor, Gribeauval and his colleagues, Maritz, Liechtenstein and his collaborators, as well as the du Teil brothers – will all be examined, as will the important battles and sieges, significant memoirs and documents, and artillery terms that soon became part of the military lexicon. Written by the renowned historian Kevin F. Kiley, this will be the definitive book on the subject and will cover all aspects of artillery in the Napoleonic Wars. “This is a wonderfully complete induction into the details of Napoleonic Artillery. As well as defining some of the archaic terms associated with the art of gunnery (note; point blank is not what we mostly believe it to be) it provides background to the careers of the key characters in the science. The book contains many excellent technical drawings to explain, sketches and images to inform and data tables in the appendix to which to refer. Overall, it is an indispensable aid to understanding the artillery of the period.” —Michael McCarthy, battlefield guide

Download or read book Publishers circular and booksellers record written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers written by Great Britain. Corps of Royal Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers New Series written by Great Britain. Corps of Royal Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Combustion of Coal and the Prevention of Smoke written by Charles Wye Williams and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wellington s Light Division in the Peninsular War written by Robert Burnham and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A detailed and riveting account of the Light Division and its three regiments, 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry and the 95th Rifles . . . An important book.” —Firetrench In February 1810, Wellington formed what became the most famous unit in the Peninsular War: the Light Division. Formed around the 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry and the 95th Rifles, the exploits of these three regiments is legendary. Over the next 50 months, the division would fight and win glory in almost every battle and siege of the Peninsular War. How the division achieved its fame began on the border of Spain and Portugal where it served as a screen between Wellington’s Army and the French. When it came time pull back from the border, the division endured a harrowing retreat with a relentless enemy at their heels. It was during this eventful year it developed an esprit-de-corps and a belief in its leaders and itself that was unrivaled in Wellington’s Army. Wellington’s Light Division in the Peninsular War uses over 100 primary sources—many never published before—to recount the numerous skirmishes, combats, and battles, as well as the hardships of a year of duty on the front lines. Others are from long-forgotten books published over 150 years ago. It is through the words of the officers and men who served with it that this major, and long-anticipated study of the first critical year of the Light Division is told. “Given the limited scope of the book, covering only one year of the Peninsular campaign, the depth of the study is truly remarkable . . . An excellent history of the Light Division ‘Warts and All.’”—The Napoleon Series