Sieges were the exception, rather than the norm, of the Napoleonic Wars. This simple truth may seem unremarkable to the modern reader, yet it represented a significant shift from the norms of eighteenth-century warfare. The more agile style of campai...Lasīt vairāk
Over the course of the Napoleonic wars, the French emperor mobilised over two million fighting men most of them conscripts. Napoleons Conscripts tells their story. Exploring the system of conscription and soldiers experiences of service, it sheds...Lasīt vairāk
Napoleons 1812 invasion of Russia marked a major turning point in his reign. His Grande Armée, consisting of over half a million men, was decimated within six months, leaving only about 10,000 survivors. The campaign cost over a million lives, inclu...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837050468)
Objects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today. Through them we can come closer to the reality experienced by the soldiers who fought at Waterloo that most iconic of all battles....Lasīt vairāk
For nearly two decades, Napoleon Bonaparte was Europes most feared and revered leader, ruling over vast territories from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. This book chronicles his rise from a young Corsican with a strange accent to Emperor of the Fre...Lasīt vairāk
This groundbreaking book offers a detailed exploration of the dress of the thirty-seven regiments of Light Infantry and other support troops in Napoleons Grande Armée, including foot and horse artillery, sapeurs, musicians, and carabiniers. For the...Lasīt vairāk
A critical study of five historical armies that offers solutions for how contemporary forces need to change to deal with modern threats. A critical study of five historical armies that offers solutions for how contemporary force...Lasīt vairāk
This volume of French eyewitness accounts of Waterloo, published for the first time in full in English, completes Andrew Fields pioneering work on the French experience in this decisive battle. These vivid recollections add a new dimension to our un...Lasīt vairāk
Making extensive use of previously unpublished material this book gives an unprecedented view of the Waterloo Campaign from the viewpoint of a single regiment. It reveals the preparations that preceded the battle, the role of the regiment in the batt...Lasīt vairāk
William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the Peninsula, to Waterloo, and, after 1815, to Canada. William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the la...Lasīt vairāk
The French Revolution threw Europe into chaos and forced the armies of the rest of Europe into crisis. Forty-Four Months in the Alps describes how the Piedmontese army reorganized to resist the tricolour tide that spread across the continent. Richly...Lasīt vairāk
Based on Captain John Orrs previously unseen campaign diary and personal documents, this is the first biography of the man who would become Superintendent of the Scottish Naval & Military Academy (SNMA). We follow John during his eighteen months in...Lasīt vairāk
The Russian Patriotic War of 1812 is the only publicly available translation into English of Bogdanovichs official history of the Russian forces involvement in the fight against Napoleon and his allies in Russia in 1812. This translation also inclu...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a detailed analysis of the attack of the Comte dErlons French I Corps, and the subsequent allied counterattack, at the Battle of Waterloo. This assault by 20,000 men and eighty guns in the early afternoon of 18 June 1815 came as...Lasīt vairāk
It was Christmas Eve 1800. The streets of Paris were crowded with citizens. Some were shopping, some were eating and drinking. But others were plotting to murder the most famous and powerful man in France. They wheeled their improvised bomb into town...Lasīt vairāk
An influential yet controversial naval officer who played key roles in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars through unconventional methods and secretive operations.Quicksilver Captain is the story of Sir Home Popham (17621820), an extraordin...Lasīt vairāk
These are the magnificent works of Detaille, Meissonier, Vernet, Lady Butler, Hillingford and many of the other artists who sought to capture on canvas the most celebrated incidents of the Napoleonic Wars. Through their battle paintings these great a...Lasīt vairāk
There have been two major studies in recent years that have explored the roles and responsibilities of British generals at different levels within the British Expeditionary Forces command structure. Dr Simon Innes-Robbins has written about the gener...Lasīt vairāk
The British in the Adriatic, 1800-1825 brings together three detailed studies of British naval and military, diplomatic and commercial activity in the eastern Adriatic during the Napoleonic wars, drawing on original research in various British archiv...Lasīt vairāk
King Georges Army British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815 Volume 2 is the second volume of an encyclopedic chronicle of the locations and actions of British regiments and the military administration of the army between 1793 and 1815,...Lasīt vairāk
The Battle of Lutzen (2 May 1813) was Napoleons first battle in the 1813 campaign, and was soon followed by Bautzen on 20-21 May. Both were bloody affairs in which Napoleons newly raised army met the Allied army of Russia and Prussia, but otherwise...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Mar-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Fonthill Media Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781781559024)
Many have sought reasons why Napoleon lost the great battle at Waterloo, seen by many as the most famous conflict of the nineteenth century. Waterloo Casualties presents the litany of failures by one of Napoleons key subordinates, General Drouet dE...Lasīt vairāk
Wellingtons 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...Lasīt vairāk
The Isle of Man is predominantly a maritime nation. For many generations its menfolk have made their living from the sea, sometimes as fishermen, but often as crewmen aboard merchant vessels or warships. Indeed, such were their skills of seamanship t...Lasīt vairāk
The Russian Patriotic War of 1812 is the only publicly available translation into English of Bogdanovichs official history of the Russian forces involvement in the fight against Napoleon and his allies in Russia in 1812. This translation also inclu...Lasīt vairāk
After the Peace of Amiens was broken in 1803, Great Britain found herself at war with an old enemy (France) but also with a new competitor (Napoleon): the latter was the greatest military commander of his times, a man who was able to transform the Fr...Lasīt vairāk
Between 1815 and the Duke of Wellingtons death in 1852, the Battle of Waterloo became much more than simply a military victory. While other countries marked the battle and its anniversary, only Britain actively incorporated the victory into their na...Lasīt vairāk
The only English-language book on the fall and death of Joachim Murat and the final act in the drama of the Napoleonic Wars.Joachim Murat, son of an innkeeper, had won his spurs as Napoleons finest cavalry general and then won his throne when, in 18...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Nov-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Sona Books, ISBN-13: 9781915343420)
From childhood dreams of joining the British Royal Navy to a dotage spent riding on a seesaw to improve his health, the true story of Napoleon Bonaparte is every bit as bizarre and fascinating as it is controversial. Napoleon rose up...Lasīt vairāk
The first account of Britains convoys during the Napoleonic Warsshowing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans,...Lasīt vairāk
This is a bold, painstakingly researched and wide-ranging assessment of the British Cheer in the Napoleonic era. Reference to the Cheer in accounts of the time is virtually ubiquitous and repeatedly the claim was made for cheering as an integral part...Lasīt vairāk
First English translation of Ilya Timofeyevich Radozhitskiis memoirs, a Russian artillery officer who served with distinction during the wars against Napoleon.The second of three volumes, this book represents the first English translation of the mem...Lasīt vairāk
Explores all of Napoleons campaign of 1815 through 100 of the key locations associated with it. Visit the key places on all the battlefields of the campaign....Lasīt vairāk
No other regiment in Wellingtons Peninsular army can compare with the 95th Rifles. Even before Bernard Cornwells Sharpe novels and television series, the Rifles were the most famous of all the British Armys fighting formations.Unlike the red-coate...Lasīt vairāk
My horse took the force of his sabre, but I was able to hack at his hands... Wounded quite badly, he went down only to try again. I was tired of this game, so I threw myself onto him and staved in his head. Jonathan North presents an asto...Lasīt vairāk
During October 2016 Paul Dawson visited French archives in Paris to continue his research surrounding the events of the Napoleonic Wars. Some of the material he examined had never been accessed by researchers or historians before, the files involved...Lasīt vairāk
This book discusses the Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War, especially after its reorganization by William Carr Beresford and Miguel Pereira Forjaz, and how it become Wellingtons other army, which he trusted to carry out large military op...Lasīt vairāk
