Twelve Years' Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe

Twelve Years' Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe
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Book Synopsis Twelve Years' Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe by : John Blakiston

Download or read book Twelve Years' Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe written by John Blakiston and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Twelve Years' Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe Or, Memoirs of an Officer who Served in the Armies of His Majesty and of the East India Company, Between the Years 1802 and 1814

Twelve Years' Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe Or, Memoirs of an Officer who Served in the Armies of His Majesty and of the East India Company, Between the Years 1802 and 1814
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Book Synopsis Twelve Years' Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe Or, Memoirs of an Officer who Served in the Armies of His Majesty and of the East India Company, Between the Years 1802 and 1814 by : John Blakiston

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Twelve Years' Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe

Twelve Years' Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe
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Book Synopsis Twelve Years' Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe by : John Blakiston

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Twelve Years’ Military Adventure in Three-Quarters of the Globe –

Twelve Years’ Military Adventure in Three-Quarters of the Globe –
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Book Synopsis Twelve Years’ Military Adventure in Three-Quarters of the Globe – by : Captain John Blakiston

Download or read book Twelve Years’ Military Adventure in Three-Quarters of the Globe – written by Captain John Blakiston and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educated from a young age for the military profession of arms, John Blakiston was sent to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, becoming an Engineer assigned to East India Company army. Thereafter he transferred into the British army in Europe and then into the Portuguese service fighting in the Peninsula. He wrote his military memoirs in two volumes; each focussing on a period of his service in the military. The first volume concentrated on his time with the East India Company; it is very valuable not only for its own narrative, but also for the rarity of any narrative that describes the initial campaigns of the then Colonel Wellesley in command of a sizeable force and in semi-independent command. At the time of his commission into the East India Company, a new administration in India led by Marquess Richard Wellesley (the future Duke’s elder brother) was just installed and was to come into conflict with the armies of not only Tippoo Sultan, ruler of Mysore, but also with numerous bands of rebels.

The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780–1835

The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780–1835
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Book Synopsis The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780–1835 by : Neil Ramsey

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.

Burgos in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814

Burgos in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814
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Book Synopsis Burgos in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814 by : C. Esdaile

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.

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 [Illustrated and Annotated Edition]

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 [Illustrated and Annotated Edition]
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Book Synopsis Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 [Illustrated and Annotated Edition] by : Captain Sir John Kincaid

Download or read book Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 [Illustrated and Annotated Edition] written by Captain Sir John Kincaid and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition contains over 60 annotations, illuminating the people and events recounted by Sir John, and also 6 maps illuminating the battles of Fuentes de Oñoro, Salamanca and Vittoria, also the sieges of Cuidad Rodrigo and Badajoz and the fortifications of Torres Vedras. Sir John Kincaid served with the 95th Rifles throughout the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign in 1815. Written with verve and wit and an eye for an amusing story, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade (as the 95th was known at the time), Kincaid provided an oft imitated pattern for British Rife memoirs. Published originally in 1830 the originality of the book has led to numerous re-editions since. The narrative includes; The Battles of Sabugal, Fuentes D’Oñoro, Salamanca, Vittoria, the Nivelle and Waterloo,and the sieges of Badajoz and Cuidad Rodrigo. Author - Sir John Kincaid 1787-1862