Wellington
Author: Finlay Cochrane Beatson
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 260
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Author: Finlay Cochrane Beatson
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Finlay Cochrane BEATSON
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Major-General Finlay Cochrane Beatson C.B.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2013-02-18
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1908902957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book forms part of General Beatson’s trilogy dealing with the campaigns in and around the Pyrenees during late 1813 and 1814 and they are rightly acknowledged as the standard works on these campaigns. This volume deals with the Allied armies’ struggle to gain a foothold in France itself in the late summer months of 1813. Following the repulse of the last French offensive in 1813, Wellington began to take the fight into France; what faced him and his men was an unenviable position to attack: in the east stood the formidable Pyrenees mountains, bristling with redoubts and French troops; in the west, the difficult tidal estuaries. It would be a tough nut to crack, but Wellington’s army was experienced, blooded and the momentum that had carried them forward all the way from the borders of Portugal should be enough. On the French side, Marshal Soult had problems aplenty of his own, he was ordered to stage his defence as close to the Spanish border as possible and the troops themselves were outnumbered by the Allied army. He chose to defend the mountain passes that he had used to attack the Allies earlier in the year with the bulk of his men, relying on the difficulty of a river crossing to ensure his safety to the West. Wellington prepared meticulously for his assault, opted for the element of surprise by deciding to assault across the Bidassoa estuary. Sending troops to hold the attention of the French inland, his rugged peninsular veterans cross the Bidassoa with ease pushed on into France. It was to be the second time Soult was levered from a river line by Wellington and, as illustrated by this masterful piece of generalship and co-ordinated planning, it would not be the last before Napoleon was to abdicate. Author — Major-General Finlay Cochrane Beatson C.B. (1855-1933) Text taken, whole and complete, from the ed. pub. London, E. Arnold & co., 1931. Original Page Count – xi and 224 pages. Illustrations – Numerous maps, plans and photos
Author: F. C. Beatson
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Published: 2020-06-05
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781783315437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the third volume of General Beatson's masterly trilogy dealing with the campaigns in and around the Pyrenees during late 1813 and 1814. This volume deals with the Allied armies' struggle to gain a foothold in France itself in the late summer months of 1813. The other two volumes With Wellington in the Pyrenees and The Crossing of the Gaves & the Battle of Orthez have also been republished by the Naval & Military Press.
Author: F. c. Beatson
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Published: 2007-08
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781846772931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Napoleon's French Army retreated, all hope that it could maintain a hold over the Iberian Peninsula began to fade. By September of 1813 the Allied Army commanded by the 'captain of the age'-the Duke of Wellington-stood on the frontier of France within the area of the estuary of the Bidassoa. Napoleon was being pressed on two fronts, but he still had a large reserve of veteran troops stationed in the south of France to call upon. The time had come to tighten the grip on France. Wellington would now invade it, engage the southern army which it was hoped would spur the Coalition of northern European powers to greater endeavours to bring about its defeat. No longer now an expanding empire, the French were faced with the defence of their own homeland and Wellington was poised for a campaign which would bring a large and prosperous region of it under allied control. It would be a contest bitterly fought as only those with desperate stakes can be. In this, the second of Beatson's series on the fall of Revolutionary France published by Leonaur, the reader is once again taken into the centre of Wellington's strategic and tactical genius. Every action is described in detail and complemented by the voices of the soldiers who experienced those momentous times.
Author: Michael Glover
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1789121655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1963, this book concentrates on four great military victories of the Peninsular War (1807-1814): the Battle of Busaco of September 27, 1810; the Battle of Salamanca of July 22, 1812; the Battle of Vitoria of June 21, 1913; and the Battle of Nivelle of November 10, 1913. Richly illustrates throughout with photos, maps and plans. “You have sent me...the staff of a French Marshal, and I send you in return that of England.”—HRH The Prince Regent to Viscount Wellington after Vitoria “A lucid and absorbing account of the five years of arduous campaigning that brought the Allies to Toulouse in April, 1814...quotes freely from many fascinating eyewitness descriptions”—The Soldier “Concentrates attention on four of Wellington’s greatest triumphs—Busaco, Salamanca, Vitoria, and the Nivelle...which routed the finest soldiery in Europe and sent four of its most famous Marshals cringing back to Napoleon in disgrace”—The Daily Telegraph “Michael Glover’s book is a brilliant success, like the campaign which inspired it”—The Times Literary Supplement
Author: F. C. Beatson
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Published: 2020-06-05
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781783315420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book forms part of General Beatson's trilogy dealing with the campaigns in and around the Pyrenees during late 1813 and 1814. The campaign in south-west France in late 1813 and early 1814 was the final campaign of the Peninsular War. An allied army of British, Portuguese and Spanish soldiers under the command of Wellington fought a string of battles against French forces under the command of the able Soult, from the Iberian Peninsula across the Pyrenees and into south-west France ending with the capture of Toulouse and the besieging of Bayonne. They are rightly acknowledged as the standard works on these campaigns and provide an insight into the later, often ignored stages of the Peninsular War. The other two volumes The Bidassoa and Nivelle and The Crossing of the Gaves & the Battle of Orthez have also been republished by the Naval & Military Press.
Author: Janet Bromley
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2015-03-25
Total Pages: 726
ISBN-13: 1848847505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWellington's Men Remembered is a reference work which has been compiled on behalf of the Association of Friends of the Waterloo Committee and contains over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 24 countries worldwide.?
Author: Janet Bromley
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2012-04-19
Total Pages: 1200
ISBN-13: 1781594120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWellington's Men Remembered is a reference work to be published in two volumes, which has been compiled on behalf of the The Waterloo Association containing over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 28 countries world wide.
Author: Charles Duke Yonge
Publisher: London : Ward, Lock
Published: 1891
Total Pages: 576
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