Twelve Months in the British Legion. By an officer of the ninth regiment [i.e. Major-General Charles William Thompson].
Author: Spain. Ejército. British Auxiliary Legion
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Published: 1836
Total Pages: 326
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Published: 1836
Total Pages: 326
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 778
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13: 9780907977568
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 488
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 492
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 1082
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 702
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 1236
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Published: 2005
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe two Carlist wars are probably the least remembered, outside Spain, of the civil conflicts of the country. In the first of these, as in 1936, foreign volunteers fought on both sides, among them the 10,000 men of the British Auxiliary Legion, an arm of Palmerston's foreign policy supporting the liberal Cristino cause and the young Queen Isabella II against her uncle, Don Carlos, pretender to the throne. With the Foreign Enlistment Act suspended in 1835, troops were recruited in Britain and Ireland to fight in a savage struggle. Ill-paid, poorly supplied and inadequately accommodated in appaling weather, the Legion suffered heavy mortality from typhus, yet fought bravely in battle, contributing to an eventual Cristino victory. Ireland played a prominent role in the Legion with four designated Irish regiments and many more men serving in other units.