Waterloo Armies
German troops formed the majority of Wellingtons forces present at the Battle of Waterloo including those of Nassau, Brunswick, Hanover and the Kings German Legion, and they have left a large number of first-hand accounts of their role in the battle.The actions of the King's German Legion an integral part of the British Army and partly officered by British soldiers has been published in English, but to a limited degree: Herbert Siborne published letters written to his father; Ompteda and Wheatley have had their memoirs published; and History of the Kings German Legion included a small number of letters, including the oft-misquoted account of…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4738-1975-7
- EAN: 9781473819757
- Produktnummer: 22580485
- Verlag: Pen and Sword
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 9'794 KB
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Philip Haythornthwaite is one of the most distinguished and prolific writers on the military history of the Napoleonic era. He has long been established as an authority on the major battles of the time, in particular those fought in the Iberian peninsula, and he has made a special study of the armies and the soldiers who confronted each other across Europe during fifteen years of almost continuous warfare. His many previous books include: The Peninsular War: The Complete Companion to the Iberian Campaigns, 1807-14; The Armies of Wellington; Waterloo Men: The Experience of Battle, 16-18 June 1815; Die Hard! Famous Napoleonic Battles; The Napoleonic Source Book; Who Was Who in the Napoleonic Wars; Wellington's Army: The Uniforms of the British Soldier, 1812-1815 and Waterloo Armies.
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