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The Guards fought in every major British campaign on the continent during the Napoleonic Wars. They carved their place in history under commanders suc...
Wellington Crushes Marmont
Salamanca was the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War. This detailed, illustrated volume recounts its progression, alongside full-colour...
Wellington Sweeps the French from Spain
A compact, fully-illustrated guide to a strategic British victory that forced the French troops out of occupied Spain. Despite Wellington's success ag...
Wellington's Army
This is a major series of books that provides the most authoritative information on the uniforms and equipment worn by the great armies of the past. E...
The poor discipline demonstrated by the British cavalry commanded by general Slade at Maguilla in 1812 prompted the Duke of Wellington's famous remark...
Following the battle of Bussaco on 27 September 1810 Wellington's heavily outnumbered troops began to withdraw towards Lisbon. By the evening of 9 Oct...
Eyewitness Accounts by Soldiers of Wellington's Army, 1808โ1814
The Peninsular War was one of the most successful campaigns ever fought by the British Army. Between 1808, when British troops landed in Portugal, and...
Main Work (Second Edition) and Supplement
This set deals with the problems generated by those cases of insolvency (either of an individual or of a company) where the presence of contacts with ...
As part of an online project on the Symbolist artists and poets of the late 19th century, Alex Goluszko profiles the English artist and illustrator Au...
In the course of the Peninsular War, Wellington's army fought several hard battles and smaller actions, but it was the bloody sieges that troubled him...
The Life and Times of Wellington's Wayward Martinet
To most students of the Peninsular War the name Robert Craufurd evokes images of a battle-hardened martinet, flogging his men across Portugal and Spai...
"The only way to save our economy is for the U.S. to counter with trade and industrial policies designed to correct the defects of free trade. Ian Fle...
First Blood to the Allies in the Crimea
On 20 September 1854 the combined British and French armies confronted the Russians at the river Alma in the critical opening encounter of the Crimean...
A one-stop guide to frequent developments and the key legal and policy issues affecting social security law. The text keeps the reader informed about ...
What Should Replace It and Why
This very readable book is aimed at both ordinary concerned citizens and people with a bit of sophistication about economics. It is a systematic exami...
The Siege and Storming of the Fortress of Badajoz, 16 March to 6 April 1812
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Lieutenant Knowles served in the 7th (Royal) Fusiliers 1811-1813, seeing action in several battles, being wounded at the storming of Badajoz and at th...
The Men and Their Battles from Roliรงa to Waterloo, 1808-1815
A military account of Wellington's armies from 1808 to 1815, which blazed a trail of glory across the Iberian Peninsula from Portugal to southern Fran...
The Crimean War Letters of William John Rous
As the snow fell on the face it froze, and my hair was matted with ice, and icicles formed on my eyelashes. So intense was the cold that whenever I wa...
Wellington's Battlefields Revisited
In 1994 Ian Fletcher published his book Fields of Fire, which was the first book to show Wellingtons Peninsular War battlefields in full color. Now, a...
Wellington, the British Army and the Waterloo Campaign
A 'desperate business' was how the Duke of Wellington described the Battle of Waterloo following the Allied victory there on 18 June 1815. Here, histo...
A Clash of Empires
2004 marks the 150th anniversary of the Crimean War and this volume covers the events from the complex causes of the war and the declaration of war by...
This book introduces the reader to the work for which Algernon Charles Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections: Poems and B...
The British Invasion of the Rio de la Plata, 1806-1807
Poet, Architect, Typographer, Art Historian
Startled by his wife's request for a divorce, Paul Revere's life is badly out of joint. Then he meets Sarah, and his life is forever changed. This is ...
An Illustrated History
On March 28, 1854, Queen Victoria's government announced that Britain had declared war on Russia. Few conflicts have provoked as much debate as The Cr...
The Guards in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, 1808-1815
An Exhibition of Poetry [held At] the Library, University of Reading, 17 June to 10 December 1974
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The storming of Badajoz was an epic action which involved Wellington's infantry in some of the most savage hand-to-hand fighting of the whole Peninsul...
A writer buys an old executive desk for his office. While sorting through its contents, he finds the forty-year-old diary of a man who had a torrid af...
Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries
Orthodox economics notwithstanding, free trade is bad for America, some industries are better than others and government plays an indispensable role i...