Author: Christopher Kelly
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
A Full and Circumstantial Account of the Memorable Battle of Waterloo
Author: Christopher Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Waterloo
Author: Alan Forrest
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191640298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved the deployment of huge armies and incurred heavy losses on both sides; for those who fought in it, Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and Hanoverians as well as British and French troops, it was a murderous struggle. It was a battle that would be remembered very differently across Europe. In Britain it would be seen as an iconic battle whose memory would be enmeshed in British national identity across the following century. In London news of the victory unleashed an outburst of patriotic celebration and captured the imagination of the public. The Duke of Wellington would go on to build his political career on it, and towns and cities across Britain and the Empire raised statues and memorials to the victor. But it was only in Britain that Waterloo acquired this iconic status. In Prussia and Holland its memory was muted - in Prussia overshadowed by the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, in Holland a simple appendage to the prestige of the House of Orange. And in France it would be portrayed as the very epitome of heroic defeat. Encapsulated in the bravery of General Cambronne and the last stand of the Old Guard, remembered movingly in the lines of Stendhal and Victor Hugo, the memory of Waterloo served to sustain the romantic legend of the Napoleonic Wars - and contributed to the growing cult of Napoleon himself.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191640298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved the deployment of huge armies and incurred heavy losses on both sides; for those who fought in it, Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and Hanoverians as well as British and French troops, it was a murderous struggle. It was a battle that would be remembered very differently across Europe. In Britain it would be seen as an iconic battle whose memory would be enmeshed in British national identity across the following century. In London news of the victory unleashed an outburst of patriotic celebration and captured the imagination of the public. The Duke of Wellington would go on to build his political career on it, and towns and cities across Britain and the Empire raised statues and memorials to the victor. But it was only in Britain that Waterloo acquired this iconic status. In Prussia and Holland its memory was muted - in Prussia overshadowed by the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, in Holland a simple appendage to the prestige of the House of Orange. And in France it would be portrayed as the very epitome of heroic defeat. Encapsulated in the bravery of General Cambronne and the last stand of the Old Guard, remembered movingly in the lines of Stendhal and Victor Hugo, the memory of Waterloo served to sustain the romantic legend of the Napoleonic Wars - and contributed to the growing cult of Napoleon himself.
A full ... account of the ... battle of Waterloo, the second restoration of Louis xviii, and the deportation of Napoleon
Author: Christopher Kelly
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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A Full and Circumstantial Account of the Memorable Battle of Waterloo
Author: Christopher Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
Catalogue of the War Office Library: Subject-index. Comp. by F. J. Hudleston. [1912
Author: Great Britain. War Office. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1978
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1978
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Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A South African Bibliography to the Year 1925
Author: Sidney Mendelssohn
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A Full and Circumstantial Account of the Memorable Battle of Waterloo
Author: Christopher Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description