Adrian Greenwood

Victoria's Scottish Lion

The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde

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From humble Glasgow beginnings, Colin Campbell rose to become Scotland's finest general and a favourite of Queen Victoria. In his fifty-year career he fought through the Peninsula, the Crimea, China and India, and still found time to contain a slave revolt, a Chartist revolution and Ireland's Tithe War. Through a combination of personal courage, compassionate leadership and genius for military strategy he became an idol for the men who served under him. This undisputed hero, whose memory has grown faint beside celebrated warriors of the Victorian age, was a soldier ahead of his time - the first working-class field marshal, with strong humanit… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7509-6554-5
EAN: 9780750965545
Produktnummer: 18126251
Verlag: The History Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 496 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 10'509 KB

Über den Autor

Adrian Greenwood read PPE at Oxford and then gained an MBA at Imperial College, London. A dealer in rare books, he has written many articles for magazines and is the author of a biography of Field Marshal Colin Campbell for The History Press.