Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War

Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War PDF Author: T. M. Hughes
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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This poem by T.M Hughes presents a lyrical account of the military achievements of England of the six-year Peninsular War, whose atrocities he had witnessed. But even while celebrating the most magnificent military accomplishments, he made sure to teach everyone the horrors of War. He was able to present this historical poem with such accuracy because he had lived for those six years in Peninsula. He has lived amid rebellions, revolutions, military actions, and even portions of three sieges of Seville and Barcelona in 1843 and that of Almeida in Portugal in 1844. The poem consists of 12 incredibly written Cantos that illustrate the subject vividly. The descriptions of the battle ground are so accurate after personal observations that Hughes made himself. The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military dispute in the Iberian Peninsula fought by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.

Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War

Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War PDF Author: T. M. Hughes
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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This poem by T.M Hughes presents a lyrical account of the military achievements of England of the six-year Peninsular War, whose atrocities he had witnessed. But even while celebrating the most magnificent military accomplishments, he made sure to teach everyone the horrors of War. He was able to present this historical poem with such accuracy because he had lived for those six years in Peninsula. He has lived amid rebellions, revolutions, military actions, and even portions of three sieges of Seville and Barcelona in 1843 and that of Almeida in Portugal in 1844. The poem consists of 12 incredibly written Cantos that illustrate the subject vividly. The descriptions of the battle ground are so accurate after personal observations that Hughes made himself. The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military dispute in the Iberian Peninsula fought by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.

Iberia Won - A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War

Iberia Won - A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War PDF Author: Terence McMahon Hughes
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736419279
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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The following work is the result of six years' residence in the Peninsula, devoted to literary pursuits. It contains the fruits (be they mature or otherwise) of many excursions through Spain and Portugal, of considerable opportunities of observation, and much familiarity with localities and people, as well as of meditative habits in an isolated life, which during the last three years especially has been compelled by severe sickness. Love and admiration of the British Islands, whose climate would be fatal to me, except during two or three summer months, have been fostered by constrained absence; and my attention having been strongly turned to the great Peninsular struggle, I have consulted every accessible work, and every surviving authority within my reach, that could illustrate a theme with which my mind has been filled for years. While I have endeavoured[iv] to sustain the glory of England, I have striven to award a meed of truthful but generous justice to her Allies, and have not thought it requisite to depreciate the well-earned fame of France. Yet, even while celebrating the most splendid military achievements, it has been my aim to inculcate a horror of the bloody arbitrament of War. Determined to perfect the work, so far as in me lay, I last year traversed the whole Peninsula from East to West, at the constant risk of a very precarious life (which might thus, perhaps, become not utterly valueless), and acquired the advantages to be derived to my labours from visiting the following battle-grounds:—Bayonne and the Adour, the Nive, St. Pierre, the Nivelle, the Bidasoa, San Marcial, Vera, Sauroren, San Sebastian, Vitoria, Talavera, Almaraz, Albuera, and Badajoz, having previously visited most of the battle-fields in Portugal and in Northern and Southern Spain. The task which I have undertaken, and accomplished according to my means, was an ambitious one, yet honourable. I scarcely dare to hope for success.

Iberia Won, a Poem Descriptive of the Peninsular War

Iberia Won, a Poem Descriptive of the Peninsular War PDF Author: Terence McMahon Hughes
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Iberia Won

Iberia Won PDF Author: T. M. Hughes
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Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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A catalogue of works in all departments of English literature

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A catalogue of works in all departments of English Literature, classified; with a general alphabetical index. The full titles, sizes, prices and dates of the last editions are given. Second edition, corrected to January 1st, 1848

A catalogue of works in all departments of English Literature, classified; with a general alphabetical index. The full titles, sizes, prices and dates of the last editions are given. Second edition, corrected to January 1st, 1848 PDF Author:
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Rydal Mount, near Ambleside, Westmoreland. Catalogue of the varied and valuable historical, poetical, theological and miscellaneous library of the late venerated Poet Laureate, William Wordsworth ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. John Burton, of Preston ... on ... 19th ... 20th, and ... 21st ... July, 1859, etc

Rydal Mount, near Ambleside, Westmoreland. Catalogue of the varied and valuable historical, poetical, theological and miscellaneous library of the late venerated Poet Laureate, William Wordsworth ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. John Burton, of Preston ... on ... 19th ... 20th, and ... 21st ... July, 1859, etc PDF Author: William Wordsworth
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