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The Walcheren Expedition
Anonymous
The Experiences of a British Officer of the 81st Regt. During the Campaign in the Low Countries of 1809
A little covered Napoleonic campaign The Walcheren Expedition often appears in military memoirs of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, though rarely in much detail. The impression that the..
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Recollections of the Peninsula
Moyle Sherer
An Officer of the 34th Regiment of Foot—‘The Cumberland Gentlemen’—on Campaign Against Napoleon’s French Army in Spain
A finely written account of the war in Spain by a serving British officer Moyle Sherer, a young officer of the 34th Regiment of Foot—The Cumberland Gentlemen—has brought a writers eye and pen to hi..
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Private Wheeler
William Wheeler
The letters of a soldier of the 51st Light Infantry during the Peninsular War & at Waterloo
The voice of an ordinary English infantryman during the Napoleonic Wars Young William Wheeler's first experience of military life was within the ranks of the Surrey Militia, but he found peace time..
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On Campaign With Moore and Wellington
Anthony Hamilton
The Experiences of a Soldier of the 43rd Regiment During the Peninsular War
A 'Light Bob' tells of his war against Napoleon Irishman Anthony Hamilton enlisted in the 43rd Light Infantry and soon found himself in action with the Danish expedition. Shortly thereafter the fir..
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Lieutenant Simmons of the 95th (Rifles)
George Simmons
Recollections of the Peninsula, South of France & Waterloo Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars
A subalterns war in 'rifle green' against the French George Simmons, one of a large family, came from a comparatively humble background. Like so many of his countrymen of his time, he chose a milit..
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Journal of an Army Surgeon in the Peninsular War
Charles Boutflower
The Recollections of a British Army Medical Man on Campaign During the Napoleonic Wars
A surgeons view of the war in Iberia Charles Boutflower was the son of a Yorkshire vicar born in 1782. He studied surgery at the University of Edinburgh and joined the 40th Regiment of Foot—then a ..
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Gentlemen in Red
John Dobbs<br>Robert Knowles
Two Accounts of British Infantry Officers During the Peninsular War Recollections of an Old 52nd Man by John Dobbs An Officer of Fusiliers by Robert Knowles
Two of Wellington's officers tell their stories of war This book contains personal accounts giving the perspectives of two young British officers of infantry during the Peninsular War in Spain agai..
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Donaldson of the 94th—Scots Brigade
Joseph Donaldson
The Recollections of a Soldier During the Peninsula & South of France Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars
An account of a young Scottish soldier at war in Spain Joseph Donaldson was so desperate for adventure as a child that he ran away to sea. He soon discovered his mistake and joined the army instead..
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Corporal Brown’s Campaigns in the Low Countries
Robert Brown
Recollections of a Coldstream Guard in the Early Campaigns Against Revolutionary France 1793-1795
A new version of a very rare text of the Coldstream Guards at War The Campaign in the Low Countries is rarely covered in books concerning the experiences of the British Army. It was fought against ..
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A Conscript for Empire
Philippe as told to Johann Christian Maempel
The Experiences of a Young German Conscript During the Napoleonic Wars
A young soldier thrown to the mercies of total war This is remarkable story of a young Rhinelander caught up in the whirlwind of war that raged in Europe in the early 19th century. As one of the sm..
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With the Light Division
John H. Cooke
The Experiences of an Officer of the 43rd Light Infantry in the Peninsula and South of France During the Napoleonic Wars
A Leonaur original-never before in print Cooke wrote three volumes of his military memoirs which originally embraced his service in America and the War of 1812 and which also included contributions..
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With the Guards Across the Pyrenees
Robert Batty
The Experiences of a British Officer of Wellington's Army During the Battles for the Fall of Napoleonic France, 1813
From Spain across the mountains into Southern France The author of this account, a young subaltern of the British First Foot Guards, joined Wellingtons Army in the closing stages of the war with Na..
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The Waterloo Letters
H. T. Siborne
Accounts of the Battle by British Officers for its Foremost Historian
Waterloo as seen by those who fought The story of Siborne and his famous diorama of the battle of Waterloo is well known to all those who are interested in the campaign of 1815. It is also well known ..
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The Light Infantry Officer
John H. Cooke
The Experiences of an Officer of the 43rd Light Infantry in America During the War of 1812
A Leonaur original--never before in print The further military adventures of an officer of the 'Light Bobs' Readers who enjoyed John Cooke's experiences of his time serving with Wellington's Lig..
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Soldiering with the 'Division'
Thomas Garrety
The Military Experiences of an Infantryman of the 43rd Regiment During the Napoleonic Wars
Thomas Garrety was a young Irishman, homeless with his widowed mother and his siblings he came to the conclusion that the only future for him lay in enlisting in the British Army. At the age of just f..
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