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Author: Edward Costello
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Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Author: Edward Costello
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Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Author: Edward Costello
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1908692707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Edward Costello enlisted into his local militia regiment in Ireland in 1806, and transferred, not without having a few adventures in his native Ireland, to the 95th Rifles. Not quite well drilled enough to join in Sir John Moore’s 1808-1809 campaign, he narrates some stories of his comrades who did, including Tom Plunket, famous for shooting the French General Colbert. His service in the Peninsular campaign, started almost immediately with the epic forced march to Talavera under General “Black Bob” Crauford, a fierce discipliarian, but liked by his men as Costello points out. Numerous skirmishes, affairs of outposts and combats punctuate Costello’s narrative, along with amusing asides of his comrades and their japes, drinking and occasionally their punishment by the lash. Present at the battles of Fuentes d’Oñoro, El Bodon, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle and the storming of Cuidad Roderigo and bloody Badajoz, he captures the mood of the men and the hellish atmosphere of a battle, and the sorrow of lost friends. After a brief break in his active service Costello once more engages during the Waterloo campaign, and is heavily engaged at Waterloo and Quatre Bras. After the fall of Napoleon Costello’s career turns to the British Legion , which is no sinecure despite his elevation to Lieutenant as he is posted to join the expedition to Spain and sees the vicious civil war at first hand, with scenes that remind him of the savagery of his experiences between the Guerillas and the French many years before. A gem in the sparkling vein of memoirs written by the men and officers of the famed Rifle brigade during their adventures in the Peninsular war. Costello writes with a verve and wit, and some idiosyncratic spelling, often only found in the works of the officers of his regiment such as Kincaid. A justly acclaimed classic.
Author: Edward Costello
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Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Author: Edward Costello
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ISBN: 9781021239174
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Joseph Plumb Martin
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Author: Edward Costello
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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"Adventures of a Soldier: Being the Memoirs of Edward Costello" by Edward Costello offers readers a firsthand account of the life of a soldier. Costello's memoirs provide a unique and personal perspective on the experiences, challenges, and adventures faced by soldiers during his time. This book is a valuable historical document that immerses readers in the world of military life and the trials and triumphs of a soldier.
Author: Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Author: Joseph Martin
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ISBN: 9781720698081
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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"Have patience just to hear me out; And I'll tell you what I've been about.The heroes of all Histories, Narratives, Adventures, Novels and Romances, have, or are supposed to have ancestors, or some root from which they sprang. I conclude, then, that it is not altogether inconsistent to suppose that I had parents too. I shall not undertake to trace my pedigree (like the Welsh) some thousand years beyond the creation; but just observe, that my father was the son of a "substantial New England farmer," (as we Yankees say,) in the then Colony, but now State of Connecticut, and county of Windham. When my father arrived at puberty he found his constitution too feeble to endure manual labor, he therefore directed his views to gaining a livelihood by some other means. He, accordingly, fitted himself for, and entered as a student in Yale College, sometime between the years 1750 and '55. My mother was likewise a "farmer's daughter;" her native place was in the county of New-Haven, in the same State. She had a sister, married and settled in the vicinity of the College, who often boarded the students when sick. My father being once in that condition, and being at board at this aunt's, my mother happened to be there on a visit: my father seeing her, it seems, like a great many others in like circumstances, took a fancy to her, followed up his courtship, and very possibly obtained her consent as well as her parents-married her a year and a half before his collegial studies were ended, which, (if known at the time,) would have been cause of his expulsion from College; but it seems it never was known there, and he, of course, escaped a keelhaling."The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier is a first person account of the Revolutionary War, as a continental soldier, by Joseph Plumb Martin.
Author: Joseph Plumb Martin
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Joseph Plumb Martin (1760 – 1850) was a soldier in the Continental Army and Connecticut Militia during the American Revolutionary War, holding the rank of private for most of the war. His published narrative of his experiences has become a valuable resource for historians in understanding the conditions of a common soldier of that era, as well as the battles in which Martin participated. "My intention is to give a succinct account of some of my adventures, dangers and sufferings during my several campaigns in the revolutionary army." Contents: Campaign of 1776. Campaign of 1777. Campaign of 1778. Campaign of 1779. Campaign of 1780. Campaign of 1781. Campaign of 1782. Campaign of 1783.
Author: John Blakiston
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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