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Mes campagnes (1792-1815) - Notes et correspondance du colonel d'artillerie Pion des Loches
mises en ordre et publiées par Maurice Chipon et Léonce Pingaud.
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
« PION DES LOCHES (Antoine-Augustin), 1770-1819.
Mes campagnes (1792-1815). Notes et correspondance du colonel d'artillerie Pion des Loches, mises en ordre et publiées par Maurice Chipon et Léonce Pingaud. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1889, in-16, XXVIII-520 p., portr., index.
Vingt-neuf cahiers de notes...
Napoleon: a History of the Art of War Vol. I
from the Beginning of the French Revolution to the End of the 18th Century [Ill. Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes over 200 maps, plans, diagrams and uniform prints
Lt.-Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge was a soldier of long and bloody experience, having served with the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War losing one of his legs during the battle of Gettysburg. After the end of the war he...
by Major Robert E. Everson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The French Army corps during the Napoleonic era was a combined arms organization, designed as a self-sustaining combat unit which could operate independently from the rest of the army. One corps was designated as the advanced guard to the French army’s main body and acted as the unit which would...
by Major Philippe H. Gennequin
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Considered the first documented commitment of a Western-style army facing a nation-wide insurgency, the Peninsular War deserves a critical examination of French pacification methods. In spite of a severe defeat, the Grande Armee achieved success while conducting counterinsurgency operations in Aragon...
by H. B. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
When Lt.-General Thomas Picton fell during a furious bayonet charge he left behind a legacy of hard fighting, high courage, volatile temper and much military glory accrued at the head of his fighting 3rd Division. In this excellent and very detailed biography, based on the Generals own private letters,...
by Field Marshal Viscount Garnet Wolseley
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The Napoleon in power in later years may have lacked the absolute genius and resolution that his earlier campaigns displayed; however, he was more than a match for his enemies on more than one occasion. Field-Marshal Wolseley’s short biography of Wellington begins in 1812, following the travails...
by Major John B. Yorko Yorko
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This thesis examines how the Duke of Wellington used Portuguese and Spanish forces during his 1812 Salamanca campaign. Wellington assessed the strengths and weaknesses of his allies, and then leveraged them throughout the campaign within the constraints of dissimilar command relationships. He was...
by Major-General F. C. Beatson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
IN this book an attempt is made to show how the greatest of modern British Generals planned and carried out the first stages in the execution of the task set him by his Government, namely, to make a further advance into French territory, and thereby render efficient co-operation to the armies of the...
by Sir Andrew Leith Hay
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
An invaluable first-hand account of a British officer who served under both Moore and Wellington against Napoleon’s invading French forces in the Iberian peninsula.
Andrew Leith Hay joined the army as an ensign in the 72nd Foot and but went to the peninsula as an aide-de-camp to his uncle,...
History of the War in the Peninsula, under Napoleon - Vol. I
to which is prefixed a view of the political and military state of the four belligerent powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
General Maximilien Foy was a renowned and experienced French general with a long and distinguished career. An artilleryman like his master Napoleon, he fulfilled his duty to France despite disagreeing with Napoleon, and fought across Europe from Switzerland, Germany, Portugal and Spain. He spent a...
by Général de Division Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, Duc de Vincence
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Recognized as the most important Napoleonic source discovered in the last hundred years, the three volume memoirs of Napoleon’s Master of Horse are also exceptionally well written, and vivdly protray Napoleon during his disastrous last years of power. The memoirs of one Napoleon’s most senior...
A History of the Peninsular War, Volume VII: August 1813 to April 14, 1814
St Sebastian's Capture, Wellington's Invasion of France, Battles of Nive, Orthez, Toulouse [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with 18 maps and illustrations
The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources....
The Vicissitudes of a Soldier’s Life
or a Series of Occurrences from 1806 to 1815,…A Concise Account of the War in the Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Another fascinating view from the ranks of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
John Green was born in Nottingham in 1790, but bored of life as an apprentice carpet maker he fled to sea on a privateer and after a short cruize enlisted in the 68th Regiment of Foot as a private. As he...
by Thomas Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
When Thomas Hamilton set out to write this detailed history of the Peninsular campaigns, the great struggle for Portugal and Spain was still fresh in the minds of his intended audience. It was also seared on his own memory from his service in the war as an ensign and later lieutenant of the 29th Regiment...