Eyewitness to the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo

Eyewitness to the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo
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Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9781844684427
ISBN-13 : 1844684423
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Book Synopsis Eyewitness to the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo by : Gareth Glover

Download or read book Eyewitness to the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo written by Gareth Glover and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journals of the Honourable James Stanhope are among the most remarkable eyewitness accounts of the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, and yet they have never been published before. The long fight against the French in Portugal and Spain, the campaign in Holland, then the Battle of Waterloo James Stanhope lived through all these extraordinary events and recorded them in vivid detail.Stanhope served as an aide de camp to the major commanders of the day Wellington, General Graham, Lord Paget, the Duke of York among them. And he described his experiences and observations in a lucid and candid prose that makes his journals of great historical value and of compelling interest to us today. His writing gives a graphic inside view of the military and political situation of the time as it was perceived at the top levels of the British army, and he depicts the daily experience of campaigning during the Napoleonic Wars in an unforgettable way.


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