Author: Esq. Charles CAMPBELL
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Traveller's Complete Guide Through Belgium, Holland an Germany, Etc
Author: Esq. Charles CAMPBELL
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
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.
The Traveller's Guide to the Rhine ... New Edition, Etc
Author: Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Handbook for Travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire. New edition, etc
Author: John Murray (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: William Jerdan
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys; a National Tale
Author: Lady Sydney Morgan (formerly Owenson.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Message and Annual Reports for ..., Made to the ... General Assembly of Ohio ..
Author: Ohio
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1718
Book Description
Contains the annual reports of various Ohio state governmental offices, including the Attorney General, Governor, Secretary of State, etc.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1718
Book Description
Contains the annual reports of various Ohio state governmental offices, including the Attorney General, Governor, Secretary of State, etc.
Documents, Including Messages and Other Communications
Author: Ohio
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
Book Description
The Highlands of Perthshire. Perth and Environs ... With Map, Etc
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description