Download or read book The Waterloo Campaign A Study Illustrated Edition written by Lt.-Colonel Sisson C. Pratt (Late R.E.) and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations. Almost 200 years after the battles were fought, the Waterloo Campaign of 1815 still remains a contentious issue. It was to be Napoleon’s last charge at the head of his formidable armies that had marched into nearly every capital in Europe over the past 10 years. How could it be that he would be defeated by a rag-tag Anglo-Dutch army under the Duke of Wellington and the more heterogeneous but inexperienced Prussian army? Some might say Napoleon’s orders were miscommunicated, misunderstood or even ignored; others would say that the formerly all-powerful Emperor’s powers were on the wane and he was eventually outmanoeuvred by his enemies. Historians have ranged up on either side of the debate for decades, and cast their opinions into the mix with some verve and often much partisan feeling. From such muddied water, Lt.-Col Pratt provides a clear account of the campaign, sifting through the evidence with an expert military eye; dealing with the varied opinions of previous historians and the evidence of all the belligerent powers. He weighs the eye-witness accounts against the events with clarity without slipping into jingoistic bias, all the while providing a refreshingly detailed but lucid work. Another excellent volume from the Special Campaigns series produced around the turn of the 20th century by serving or recently retired British and Indian Army officers. Lt.-Col. Pratt served as in the officer in the Royal Engineers for many years, seeing much service throughout the British Empire, during which time he authored and co-authored a number of books, principally on military law, and strategy. His first volume in the Special Campaigns series “From Saarbrück to Paris” chronicled the 1870-71 war between France and Prussia, and is also well worth reading. Author – Lt.-Colonel Sisson C. Pratt (Late R.E.) (1844-1919)– We have added our Waterloo Illustration pack to ensure that the reader can follow the text.
Download or read book The Political and Military History of the Campaign of Waterloo Illustrated Edition written by General Baron Antoine Henri de Jomini and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations. Of the many commentators of Napoleon and his campaigns, few if any have as much ground to claim to have understood the Emperor’s intentions as well as Jomini, who had served under him for over a decade. In this account of the Waterloo campaign, Jomini dissects the actions of all the commanders and their decisions as the action moves toward the actual battle on the 18th. As a Swiss, he avoids much of the bias of the French historical accounts (and some books since) written in the aftermath of the defeat, by evaluating Blücher, Wellington and Napoleon’s decisions critically. A fascinating study of the 1815 campaign. Of the Author — Jomini worked in staff positions for Marshal Ney prior to being attached to the Emperor’s own headquarters during the 1806 and 1807 campaigns. He was pushed out of the Grande Armée into the arms of the Russian service in 1813, becoming aide-de-camp to the Tzar. He was famous for his copious output of works on the military theory and strategy employed during the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and even those of Frederick the Great. He is often remembered for his chef d’œuvre, the “Art of War”, and has been dubbed the “founder of modern strategy” by historian John Shy. Author — General Baron Antoine Henri de Jomini (1779-1869) Translation — Captain S. V. Benet (1827-1895)
Download or read book Waterloo Lectures A Study Of The Campaign Of 1815 Illustrated 4th Edition written by Lt.-Colonel Charles C. Chesney R.E. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations. The Waterloo campaign of 1815 was a turning point in world history. After 25 years of almost constant warfare that raged from India to Canada, from South America to the Caribbean, peace among the European powers was decided on a small strip of land in modern day Belgium. The momentous fruits of the campaign have led to the decisions and actions of the belligerents and their armies to be argued back and forth ever since. Colonel Chesney’s work is amongst a handful of books that are considered to be “standard” as histories of the campaign that have been translated into French and German. It is fitting that the work of such a learned soldier, who is also a late professor of Military Art and History at the Staff College in Camberley, should be such a balanced and detailed account of the campaign. This ebook is based on the 4th edition which includes all of the changes that Colonel Chesney wished to be incorporated until his untimely death and was published posthumously. Author — Lt.-Colonel Charles C. Chesney R.E. (1826-1876) We have added our Waterloo Illustration pack to ensure that the reader can follow the text.
Download or read book The Waterloo Campaign written by Sisson Cooper Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Som nr. 5 fra 1907 i serien "Special Campaign Series" her den engelske officer og militærhistoriske forfatter S.C. Pratt om Waterloo-felttoget i Belgien 1815 med et appendix af korrespondancer og ordrer - Napoleon; Soult; Ney; Grouchu; Wellington; Blücher m. fl.
Download or read book The Campaign of Waterloo A Military History Illustrated Edition written by John Codman Ropes and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations. John Codman Ropes was not only a lawyer of the first order, but also a military history of great note. Intimately involved in supporting troops from his native Massachusetts in the American Civil War (he could not serve directly himself due to a childhood illness), he later diligently collected information on this conflict to produce the excellent “The Army under Pope” and the unfinished “Story of the Civil War”. He was the driving force of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, whose members included large numbers of service men, notably General Hancock. From his wealth of expertise and knowledge, he produced two volumes on the Napoleonic period as well, both of which have gone on to become standard works. Ropes’ “Campaign of Waterloo” is a classic of its kind, acclaimed as unbiased, brilliant and eminently readable. The format of the book is ideally suited to the accumulated eye-witness testimony that has created difficulty in gaining a clear view of the events that defined an epoch. With each chapter, the Author gives a lucid narrative of the events before weighing the evidence that led him to his conclusions in a notes section at the end, all the while avoiding the tangle often found between the narrative and references. An excellent account of the Waterloo Campaign. Author — John Codman Ropes (1836-1899) – We have added our Waterloo Illustration pack to ensure that the reader can follow the text.
Download or read book A Study of the Strategy and Tactics of the Waterloo Campaign Illustrating the Principles of War written by Tacticus and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waterloo The Hundred Days written by David G. Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Waterloo Campaign A Study Etc With Maps Plans and a Bibliography written by Sisson Cooper Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waterloo 1815 3 written by John Franklin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterloo is one of the most famous battles in history. Using the latest research combined with detailed illustrations, this title tells the story of the dramatic events of 18 June and the eventual Allied victory. The name conjures up images of the terrible scale and grandeur of the Napoleonic Wars and the incredible combined effort that finally ended Napoleon's aspirations of power in Europe. Drawn from unpublished first-hand accounts, and using detailed illustrations, this comprehensive volume is the ideal resource for studying the intense fighting at the battles of Waterloo and Wavre, the final, decisive engagements of the Waterloo campaign. Those two battles are at the heart of this study, which explores the action at Mont St Jean where Wellington managed to hold the French at bay until the arrival of the Prussians under Blücher saw the Allies secure a hard-fought victory at the dramatic climax of the 'Hundred days'.
Download or read book THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN A Study The Special Campaign Series written by Sisson C. Pratt and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the acclaimed "Special Campaign" series of works intended for serious professional students of military history each volume is interspersed with strategical and tactical comments and illustrated by numerous sketches. Lt.-Col. Pratt, who served as an officer in the Royal Engineers, provides a useful account of the campaign that examines the evidence with an expert military eye. He deals with the varied opinions of previous historians and weighs the eyewitness accounts against the events.
Download or read book The Waterloo Campaign a Study by Lieut colonel Sisson C Pratt written by Sisson C. Pratt (Major.) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battle Of Waterloo Illustrated Edition written by J. Christopher Herold and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with documents, paintings, and relics of the period. Renowned Napoleonic historian, J. Christopher Herold recounts the fascinating details of the great battle of Waterloo which ended the career of the greatest conqueror of modern times—Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French.
Download or read book Journal of the Waterloo Campaign written by Cavalie Mercer and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercers journal is the most outstanding eyewitness account of the Waterloo campaign ever published. It is a classic of military history. This new, fully illustrated edition, featuring an extensive introduction and notes by Andrew Uffindell, one of the leading authorities on the Napoleonic Wars, contains a mass of additional material not included in the original. As the bicentenary of Waterloo approaches, this beautifully prepared, scholarly edition of Mercers work will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to know what it was really like to fight in the final, great battle against Napoleon.
Download or read book The Waterloo Campaign 1815 written by William Siborne and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on the Battle of Waterloo Illustrated Edition written by General Sir James Shaw Kennedy, K.C.B. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations. Captain James Kennedy, as he then was, served with distinction throughout the Peninsula War under both Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington as a regimental officer, on the staff, and as aide-de-camp of “Black Bob” Craufurd of the famed Light Division. During the Waterloo campaign, he was on the staff of the Third Division and was heavily involved in the fighting. After many further years of service in the British Army, he sat down to record his own recollections of the events that ended Napoleon’s brief second reign as Emperor of France. His wealth of experience of war and campaigning provided him with an admirable viewpoint to discuss the actual detail of the conflict of June 1815; in this, he gave free reign to what he knew to be true and to what he had seen of the fighting. General Kennedy did not, as some of his contemporaries in the British Army did, believe that the Duke of Wellington’s performance was flawless; his reasoned, intricate and balanced narrative is both instructive and entertaining. This work is authoritative, unbiased, and widely read today. Author — General Sir James Shaw Kennedy, K.C.B. (1788-1865) We have added our Waterloo Illustration pack to ensure that the reader can follow the text.
Download or read book Waterloo Lectures a Study of the Campaign Of 1815 written by Charles Cornwallis Chesney and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE VI. EVENTS OF THE 1STH.--COMMENTS.--SUMMARY. The early daylight showed Napoleon the army of his adversary motionless in its position. The English had passed the rainy night in much discomfort; but his own soldiers, almost destitute of firewood, had cha.p.2io. suffered still more from the downpour of rain, which only ceased at about 4 a.m. On the report of his artillery officers, that the ground would require some hours before the guns could move on the muddy fields, Napoleon delayed the preparations for the battle, though his troops were put under arms at an early hour. He expressed his satisfaction at the firm countenance of the English, discussed his intended manoeuvres, and counted up confidently his chances Mem. ix. of success. He had in his whole air and bearing the 114. Goiirg. manner of one who scented a coming triumph, and--. nn Thi. xx. felt no touch of fear of such an unexpected disaster i88.and as might follow the arrival of a fresh army on his flank. No allusion is mentioned, even in his own narratives, as made by him that morning, to any possible aid from Grouchy, nor any sign that he thought the Prussians near. After receiving a report from his chief engineer, General Haxo, that no signs of intrenchments were to be seen in the enemy's position, he dictated his orders for the battle, and proceeded soon after 8 a.m. to marshal his troops in array in three grand lines, in the most deliberate manner, upon the slope opposite the position of Wellington. We need not give the particulars of this parade, which nearly all writers have taken directly from his own glowing description, revealing at its close the real purpose of this display: ' The spectacle was magnificent; and the enemy, who was so placed as to behold it down to..
Download or read book Journal of the Waterloo Campaign written by Cavalié Mercer and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
