Author: Richard Rolt
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Historical Memoirs of His Late Royal Highness William-Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
Author: Richard Rolt
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Sweet William or the Butcher?
Author: Jonathan Oates
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1781598223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
'Butcher' Cumberland is portrayed as one of the arch villains of British history. His leading role in the bloody defeat of the Jacobite rebellion in 1745 and his ruthless pursuit of Bonnie Prince Charlie's fugitive supporters across the Scottish Highlands has generated a reputation for severity that has endured to the present day. He has even been proposed as the most evil Briton of the eighteenth century. But was Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, the younger son of George II, really the ogre of popular imagination? Jonathan Oates, in this perceptive investigation of the man and his notorious career, seeks to answer this question. He looks dispassionately at Cumberland's character and at his record as a soldier, in particular at this behavior towards enemy wounded and prisoners. He analyses the rules of war as they were understood and applied in the eighteenth century. And he watches Cumberland closely through the entire course of the '45 campaign, from the retreat of the rebels across northern England to the Highlands, through Battle of Culloden and on into the bloodstained suppression that followed.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1781598223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
'Butcher' Cumberland is portrayed as one of the arch villains of British history. His leading role in the bloody defeat of the Jacobite rebellion in 1745 and his ruthless pursuit of Bonnie Prince Charlie's fugitive supporters across the Scottish Highlands has generated a reputation for severity that has endured to the present day. He has even been proposed as the most evil Briton of the eighteenth century. But was Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, the younger son of George II, really the ogre of popular imagination? Jonathan Oates, in this perceptive investigation of the man and his notorious career, seeks to answer this question. He looks dispassionately at Cumberland's character and at his record as a soldier, in particular at this behavior towards enemy wounded and prisoners. He analyses the rules of war as they were understood and applied in the eighteenth century. And he watches Cumberland closely through the entire course of the '45 campaign, from the retreat of the rebels across northern England to the Highlands, through Battle of Culloden and on into the bloodstained suppression that followed.
Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925: Manuscripts 1-1800, charters and other formal documents 1-900
Author: National Library of Scotland
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Catalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution, (to April 30th, 1889.)
Author: Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Library
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Publisher:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution
Author: Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Library
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Ill Starred General
Author: Lee McCardell
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822972914
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A rare combination of documented fact and good storytelling, Ill-Starred General is the biography of a much maligned man from one of history's most vital eras. The career of Edward Braddock began during the court intrigues of Queen Anne and George I, gained momentum in continental military campaigns in the early 1750s, and ended abruptly in the rout of his American army near present-day Pittsburgh in 1755. This highly acclaimed biography reveals the man—and the politics—behind his defeat, one of the major setbacks to British imperial power in the American colonies.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822972914
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A rare combination of documented fact and good storytelling, Ill-Starred General is the biography of a much maligned man from one of history's most vital eras. The career of Edward Braddock began during the court intrigues of Queen Anne and George I, gained momentum in continental military campaigns in the early 1750s, and ended abruptly in the rout of his American army near present-day Pittsburgh in 1755. This highly acclaimed biography reveals the man—and the politics—behind his defeat, one of the major setbacks to British imperial power in the American colonies.
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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Catalogue of Books ...
Author: William Brown
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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A catalogue of the books belonging to the Library company of Philadelphia
Author: Library company of Philadelphia
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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