Download or read book Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier written by Joseph Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book RECOLLECTIONS OF THE EVENTFUL LIFE OF A SOLDIER written by JOSEPH DONALDSON and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-06-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My unsettled situation caused the former Edition of the work to be so hurriedly written, that many errors escaped notice, which, in the present, I have endeavoured to amend. The two volumes are now thrown into one, forming a continued narrative down to the close of the war, and several incidents added, which were omitted in the first Edition. If in its former state it excited an interest in the public mind, I trust it is now rendered more worthy of its approbation. I am aware that there are still imperfections in it that will require indulgence — an indulgence, however, which, I am persuaded, will be readily conceded to the humble station of. FROM THE BOOK.
Download or read book Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier written by Joseph Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of an Eventful Life chiefly passed in the Army By a Soldier Second edition Signed James Edited by H M The War in the Peninsula A continuation of the Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier written by Joseph Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eventful Life of a Soldier written by Joseph Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier Classic Reprint written by Joseph Donaldson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier As to my being really an actor in the scenes I have de scribed, I believe little doubt now exists in the public mind. I could at once dissipate it, by giving my name and the number of my regiment and I would have done so, were it not that it might point out too minutely some ill-favoured characters which I have given in the work. Fear for myself would not prevent me; but I have no personal enmity to gratify, and I shall feel sufficiently satisfied, if the picture drawn deter others from following their example. 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 Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture 1780 1835 written by Neil Ramsey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Ramsey shows, the military memoir achieved widespread acclaim and commercial success among the reading public of the late Romantic era. Ramsey assesses their influence in relation to Romantic culture's wider understanding of war writing, autobiography, and authorship and to the shifting relationships between the individual, the soldier, and the nation. The memoirs, Ramsey argues, participated in a sentimental response to the period's wars by transforming earlier, impersonal traditions of military memoirs into stories of the soldier's personal suffering. While the focus on suffering established in part a lasting strand of anti-war writing in memoirs by private soldiers, such stories also helped to foster a sympathetic bond between the soldier and the civilian that played an important role in developing ideas of a national war and functioned as a central component in a national commemoration of war.
Download or read book Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier written by Joseph Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 246 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 Admiral of the Blue written by Iain Gordon and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2005-11-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admiral John Child Purvis was a contemporary naval officer of Nelson, who never disobeyed an order and did his job well. His ability as a fighting commander was proved in a bloody duel between his sloop-of-war and a French corvette during the War of American Independence. As a battleship Captain, he was the first British officer to confront Napoleon Bonaparte, muzzle to muzzle, during the Siege of Toulon. Commanding the Princess Royal and then the London, he was involved in much action in the Mediterranean and served under the legendary Sir John Jervis (later Lord St. Vincent).Later, as a Flag Officer, he rejoined the Mediterranean Fleet first as second-in-command and then as Commander-in-Chief. The culmination of his long and distinguished career at sea was saving the Spanish fleet in Cadiz from capture by the French and preparing the city for siege.
Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Books in the Cork Library written by Cork library, Cork, Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Recollections of an Eventful Life chiefly passed in the Army By a Soldier Second edition Signed James Edited by H M The War in the Peninsula A continuation of the Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography Founded in 1882 by George Smith written by Stephen (Sir Leslie) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dead Men Telling Tales written by Matilda Greig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the nearly three hundred military memoirs published by British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese veterans of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Matilda Greig charts the histories of these books over the course of a hundred years, around Europe and the Atlantic, and from writing to publication to afterlife. Drawing on extensive archival research in multiple languages, she challenges assumptions made by historians about the reliability of these soldiers' direct eyewitness accounts, revealing the personal and political motives of the authors and uncovering the large cast of characters, from family members to publishers, editors, and translators, involved in production behind the scenes. By including literature from Spain and Portugal, Greig also provides a missing link in current studies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, showing how the genre of military memoirs developed differently in south-western Europe and led to starkly opposing national narratives of the same war. Her findings tell the history of a publishing phenomenon which gripped readers of all ages across the world in the nineteenth century, made significant profits for those involved, and was fundamental in defining the modern 'soldier's tale'.
