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  • Wellington’s Light Division and the Invasion of Spain

    The Sieges and Battles of 1812

    by Robert Burnham, Ron McGuigan ...
    In 1812, Wellington’s campaign into Spain saw early victories, a triumphant entry into Madrid, and a grueling retreat, with the Light Division heavily engaged throughout.After evicting the French from Portugal in 1811, the Duke of Wellington went on the offensive, having decided to attack into Spain and liberate the country. To do this, however, he first had to capture the key border fortresses of ... Read more

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  • Wellington's Light Division and the Defence of Portugal

    The Battles of 1811

    by Robert Burnham, Ron McGuigan ...
    There are many books on Wellington's campaigns during the Peninsular War. Yet very few examine the pivotal year of 1811, when he went on the offensive and forced Napoleon's armies back over 300 kilometers, from the doors of Lisbon to the Spanish border. For two months he pursued the retreating French, fighting skirmishes and rearguards virtually the whole way. The French finally halted at the ... Read more

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  • Wellington's Foot Guards at Waterloo

    The Men Who Saved the Day Against Napoleon

    by Robert Burnham, Ron McGuigan ...
    During the Waterloo Campaign, Wellington had only one division that was composed entirely of British infantry, the 1st Division. This consisted of two brigades of the most famous regiments of the British Army the three regiments of Guards.The exploits of the Guards at Waterloo have passed into legend. On that day, Wellington entrusted the most crucial part of his line to the men he knew would hold ... Read more

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  • Wellington's Brigade Commanders

    Peninsula & Waterloo

    by Robert Burnham, Ron McGuigan ...
    A collection of brief biographies of the over sixty men who served as brigade commanders under Wellington during the Peninsula War & the Waterloo campaign.Recent research into the Duke of Wellington's armies during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign has enhanced our understanding of the men he led, and this new biographical guide to his brigade commanders is a valuable contribution to ... Read more

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  • The British Army Against Napoleon

    Facts, Lists and Trivia, 1805-1815

    by Robert Burnham, Ron McGuigan ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Albuera 1811

    The Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War

    by Guy Dempsey ...
    On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War’s most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march of the French field marshal Soult, who was trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, 12 miles north.Beresford, who defended himself with ... Read more

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  • Wellington’s Guns

    The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo

    by Colonel Nick Lipscombe ...
    Written in the same engaging style of Mark Urban's Fusiliers and Rifles, this is a brilliant study of the Gunners who revolutionised warfare during the course of the Napoleonic Wars despite the opposition of their commander-in-chief.Dismissive, conservative and aloof, Wellington treated his artillery with disdain during the Napoleonic Wars – despite their growing influence on the field of battle. ... Read more

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  • The Journeys End Battalion

    The 9th East Surrey in the Great War

    by Michael Lucas ...
    R.C. Sherriff, author of Journeys End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his front line service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly affected his writing and, through his play, it continues to have a powerful influence on our understanding of the conflict. Yet the story of his battalion has never been told in full until now. In The Journeys ... Read more

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  • Picton's Division at Waterloo

    by Philip Haythornthwaite ...
    In the two hundred years since the Battle of Waterloo countless studies examining almost every aspect of this momentous event have been published narratives of the campaign, graphic accounts of key stages in the fighting or of the role played by a regiment or by an individual who was there - an eyewitness. But what has not been written is an in-depth study of a division, one of the larger ... Read more

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  • Voices From The Past, Armistice 1918

    The Last Days of The First World War Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There

    by Paul Kendall ...
    At 11.00 hours on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent across the battlefields of Europe. After the deadliest conflict the world had ever seen, peace had finally arrived. Since the withdrawal from the Somme and the repulse at Verdun, the Germans knew they could not win the war and had sought a negotiated end to the fighting. This was rejected by the Allies and the fighting continued until, ... Read more

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  • Fighting Newfoundlander

    by Gerald W.L. Nicholson ...
    Series Book 209 - Carleton Library Series
    The Fighting Newfoundlander is a vivid history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment - the "Blue Puttees" - and its heroic contributions to the war effort. Gerald Nicholson details the harrowing experiences of the Newfoundland Regiment (the only Canadian unit) at Gallipoli and later at Beaumont Hamel where 710 of the 801 officers and men who took part in the assault were casualties. He also follows ... Read more

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  • 'That Astonishing Infantry'

    The History of The Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1689–2006

    by Michael Glover, Jonathon Riley ...
    The Royal Welch Fusiliers were present at all Marlborough's great victories; they were one of the six Minden regiments; they fought throughout the Peninsula and were present at Wellington's final glorious victory at Waterloo. In The Great War their officers included the writer poets Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves; their 22 battalions fought not just on the Western Front but at Gallipoli, in ... Read more

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