Author: George Robert Gleig
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: Brendan Simms
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465039944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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From the prizewinning author of Europe, a riveting account of the heroic Second Light Battalion, which held the line at Waterloo, defeating Napoleon and changing the course of history. In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe-Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, a crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. In The Longest Afternoon, Brendan Simms captures the chaos of Waterloo in a minute-by-minute account that reveals how these 400-odd riflemen successfully beat back wave after wave of French infantry. The battalion suffered terrible casualties, but their fighting spirit and refusal to retreat ultimately decided the most influential battle in European history.

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 764

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 778

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Author: H. E. Marshall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625583745
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.

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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 856

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Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 814

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Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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