Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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A Virginia Historical Library Formed by an Old Virginia Collector
Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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The Battle of Waterloo; Or, a Faithful and Interesting History of the Unparalleled Events Connected Therewith ... Collected from Official Documents ... Third Edition. Illustrated with Plans of the Battle, Portraits, Etc
Author: WATERLOO.
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Sale Catalogues
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Languages : en
Pages : 658
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The Battle of Waterloo, Containing the Accounts Published by Authority, British and Foreign, and Other Relative Documents, with Circumstantial Details, Previous and After the Battle ... To which is Added an Alphabetical List of the Officers Killed and Wounded, from 15th to 26th June, 1815 ... Illustrated by a Panoramic Sketch [by Jane Waldie] of the Field of Battle, and a Plan ... By a Near Observer. Fourth Edition, to which is Added the Hanoverian ... and Dutch Accounts, Etc. [By Charlotte A. Eaton. With Other Matter. Edited by J. Booth and Hannibal Evans Lloyd.]
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Waterloo
Author: Andrew W. Field
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 178159998X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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From the author of Talavera, an extensive history of the Battle of Waterloo from the losing side’s point of view. The story of the Battle of Waterloo—of the ultimate defeat of Napoleon and the French, the triumph of Wellington, Blücher, and their allied armies—is most often told from the viewpoint of the victors, not the vanquished. Even after 200 years of intensive research and the publication of hundreds of books and articles on the battle, the French perspective and many of the primary French sources are under-represented in the written record. So, it is high time this weakness in the literature—and in our understanding of the battle—was addressed, and that is the purpose of Andrew Field’s thought-provoking new study. He has tracked down over ninety first-hand French accounts, many of which have never been previously published in English, and he has combined them with accounts from the other participants in order to create a graphic new narrative of one of the world’s decisive battles. Virtually all of the hitherto unpublished testimony provides fascinating new detail on the battle and many of the accounts are vivid, revealing, and exciting.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 178159998X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
From the author of Talavera, an extensive history of the Battle of Waterloo from the losing side’s point of view. The story of the Battle of Waterloo—of the ultimate defeat of Napoleon and the French, the triumph of Wellington, Blücher, and their allied armies—is most often told from the viewpoint of the victors, not the vanquished. Even after 200 years of intensive research and the publication of hundreds of books and articles on the battle, the French perspective and many of the primary French sources are under-represented in the written record. So, it is high time this weakness in the literature—and in our understanding of the battle—was addressed, and that is the purpose of Andrew Field’s thought-provoking new study. He has tracked down over ninety first-hand French accounts, many of which have never been previously published in English, and he has combined them with accounts from the other participants in order to create a graphic new narrative of one of the world’s decisive battles. Virtually all of the hitherto unpublished testimony provides fascinating new detail on the battle and many of the accounts are vivid, revealing, and exciting.
The Battle of Waterloo
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Napoleon and Grouchy
Author: Paul L. Dawson
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526700697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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One of the enduring controversies of the Waterloo campaign is the conduct of Marshal Grouchy. Given command of a third of Napoleons army and told to keep the Prussians from joining forces with Wellington, he failed to keep Wellington and Blcher apart with the result that Napoleon was overwhelmed at Waterloo. Grouchy, though, was not defeated. He kept his force together and retreated in good order back to France.Many have accused Grouchy of intentionally holding back his men and not marching to join Napoleon when the sound of the gunfire at Waterloo could clearly be heard, and he has been widely blamed for Napoleons defeat.Now, for the first time, Grouchys conduct during the Waterloo campaign is analyzed in fine detail, drawing principally on French sources not previously available in English. The author, for example, answers questions such as whether key orders did actually exist in 1815 or were they later fabrications to make Grouchy the scapegoat for Napoleons failures? Did General Grard really tell Grouchy to march to the sound of the guns? Why did Grouchy appear to move so slowly when speed was essential?This is a subject which is generally overlooked by British historians, who tend to concentrate on the actions of Wellington and Napoleon, and which French historians choose not to look at too closely for fear that it might reflect badly upon their hero Napoleon.Despite the mass of books written on Waterloo, this is a genuinely unique contribution to this most famous campaign. This book is certain to fuel debate and prompt historians to reconsider the events of June 1815.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526700697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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One of the enduring controversies of the Waterloo campaign is the conduct of Marshal Grouchy. Given command of a third of Napoleons army and told to keep the Prussians from joining forces with Wellington, he failed to keep Wellington and Blcher apart with the result that Napoleon was overwhelmed at Waterloo. Grouchy, though, was not defeated. He kept his force together and retreated in good order back to France.Many have accused Grouchy of intentionally holding back his men and not marching to join Napoleon when the sound of the gunfire at Waterloo could clearly be heard, and he has been widely blamed for Napoleons defeat.Now, for the first time, Grouchys conduct during the Waterloo campaign is analyzed in fine detail, drawing principally on French sources not previously available in English. The author, for example, answers questions such as whether key orders did actually exist in 1815 or were they later fabrications to make Grouchy the scapegoat for Napoleons failures? Did General Grard really tell Grouchy to march to the sound of the guns? Why did Grouchy appear to move so slowly when speed was essential?This is a subject which is generally overlooked by British historians, who tend to concentrate on the actions of Wellington and Napoleon, and which French historians choose not to look at too closely for fear that it might reflect badly upon their hero Napoleon.Despite the mass of books written on Waterloo, this is a genuinely unique contribution to this most famous campaign. This book is certain to fuel debate and prompt historians to reconsider the events of June 1815.
The Waterloo Roll Call
Author: Charles Dalton
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Waterloo
Author: Paul O'Keeffe
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468315404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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The consequences of Napoleon’s most famous defeat are explored in this “highly readable, richly anecdotal retelling of the battle’s devastating results” (Kirkus). In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks, and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared, its dead buried or burned, its ground and ruins overrun by tourists; the victorious British and Prussian armies would invade France and occupy Paris. And for Napoleon, there was no avenue ahead but surrender, exile and captivity. In this dramatic account of the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, Paul O'Keeffe employs a multiplicity of contemporary sources and viewpoints to create a reading experience that brings into focus as never before the sights, sounds, and smells of the battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of celebration and riot.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468315404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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The consequences of Napoleon’s most famous defeat are explored in this “highly readable, richly anecdotal retelling of the battle’s devastating results” (Kirkus). In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks, and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared, its dead buried or burned, its ground and ruins overrun by tourists; the victorious British and Prussian armies would invade France and occupy Paris. And for Napoleon, there was no avenue ahead but surrender, exile and captivity. In this dramatic account of the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, Paul O'Keeffe employs a multiplicity of contemporary sources and viewpoints to create a reading experience that brings into focus as never before the sights, sounds, and smells of the battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of celebration and riot.
The Battle of Waterloo
Author: John Booth
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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