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  • Inside the Regiment

    The Officers and Men of the 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

    by Carole Divall ...
    In this companion volume to her pioneering study Redcoats Against Napoleon, Carole Divall tells the fascinating inside story of a typical infantry regiment during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Rather than focusing on the history of the 30th Regiment of the Line in action and on campaign, she explores its organization, traditions and hierarchy, its personnel, and the ethos that held it ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wellington's Worst Scrape

    The Burgos Campaign, 1812

    by Carole Divall ...
    The disastrous retreat and near disintegration of Sir John Moores army on the road to Corunna in 1809 is traditionally regarded as the low point in the history of the British intervention in the Peninsular War. Yet under the Duke of Wellington, the British and their allies suffered defeats and retreats that tend to be overshadowed by the series of victories that eventually drove the French from ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Redcoats Against Napoleon

    The 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

    by Carole Divall, John Downham ...
    Military histories of the struggle against the French armies of the Revolution and Napoleon often focus on the exploits of elite units and famous individuals, ignoring the essential contribution made by the ordinary soldiers the bulk of the British army. Carole Divall, in this graphic and painstakingly researched account, tells the story of one such hitherto ignored group of fighting men, the 30th ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Napoleonic Lives

    Researching the British Soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars

    by Carole Divall ...
    Series series How Your Ancestors Lived
    Two hundred years ago the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars convulsed the whole of Europe. These were key events in the history of the continent, and for Britain, and they are a fascinating field for historical and family history research. More records than ever are available on the men who served in the British army during the wars and on their families - and Carole Divalls new book is the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wellington and the Vitoria Campaign 1813

    Never a Finer Army

    by Carole Divall ...
    Over two hundred years ago, on 21 June 1813, just southwest of Vitoria in northern Spain, the British, Portuguese and Spanish army commanded by the Duke of Wellington confronted the French army of Napoleon's brother Joseph. Hours later Wellington's forces won an overwhelming victory and, after six years of bitter occupation, the French were ousted from Iberia. This is the critical battle that ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • General Sir Ralph Abercromby and the French Revolutionary Wars, 1792–1801

    by Carole Divall ...
    This biography of the Victorian era general and politician sheds light on Britain's military maneuverings against the First French Republic.The French Revolutionary Wars of 1793-1801 were a critical turning point in the political and diplomatic history of Europe, and Sir Ralph Abercromby played a leading role in the British military campaigns that were part of them. In this absorbing and ... Read more

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  • Redcoats Against Napoleon: The 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

    by Divall, Carole ...
    Military histories of the struggle against the French armies of the Revolution and Napoleon often focus on the exploits of elite units and famous individuals, ignoring the essential contribution made by the ordinary soldiers the bulk of the British army. Carole Divall, in this graphic and painstakingly researched account, tells the story of one such hitherto ignored group of fighting men, the 30th ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    (Matthew Hervey Book 10)

    by Allan Mallinson ...
    Series Book 10 - Matthew Hervey
    Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is urgently summoned to the Cape Colony when he learns that the Zulu warrior King Shaka is about to wage war.Soon Hervey, his old friend Eyre Somervile and their escort of dragoons and mounted rifles are riding north. When they arrive at Shaka's kraal it is a horrifying place. The sentinels at the gates are corpses, and it quickly becomes apparent that he ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • In Love & War

    The Lives and Marriage of General Harry and Lady Smith

    by David Rooney, Michael Scott ...
    An absorbing historical biography of the couple wed amid the chaos of the Napoleonic wars and their adventures from Europe to Asia to South Africa.The manner of their meeting was unprecedented. In 1812, during the lawless mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz, Spain, by Wellington, a fourteen-year-old Spanish girl sought the protection of Captain Harry Smith. They fell in love and married ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wellington

    The Iron Duke (Text Only)

    by Richard Holmes ...
    In this compelling book, Richard Holmes tells the exhilarating story of the Duke of Wellington, Britain's greatest ever soldier.Seeing Wellington as a remarkable figure, Holmes follows his career from the ruins of his family seat in Ireland to the plains of India where Wellesley first gained his reputation as a brilliant commander, to the horrors of the Peninsular War and Waterloo.Combining his ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Wellington in the Peninsula, 1808–1814

    by Jac Weller ...
    The author of Wellington at Waterloo delivers an in-depth history of the military commander's tactics and strategy in the Peninsular War.After gaining strategic and tactical experience in Colonial India, Arthur Wellesley went to battle against French forces in the Peninsular War. With his decisive victories there, he ascended to the peerage of the United Kingdom as the 1st Duke of Wellington. In ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Albuera 1811

    The Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War

    by Guy Dempsey ...
    On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War’s most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march of the French field marshal Soult, who was trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, 12 miles north.Beresford, who defended himself with ... Read more

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