Corunna 1809

Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472801989
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corunna 1809 written by Philip Haythornthwaite and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The retreat to Corunna is one of the epic campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Late in 1808 Sir John Moore found himself virtually alone with his small British army deep inside Spain. The armies of his Spanish allies had been overwhelmed and he faced a victorious French force under the Emperor Napoleon. He had little option but to order a retreat to the port of Corunna. This became the most arduous of trials with armies traversing mountainous terrain over appalling roads in the depths of winter. Somehow Moore held his outnumbered, exhausted men together as they struggled to reach safety. Finally at Corunna Moore's army turned to face its tormentors.

Author : Brian L. Kieran
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1452052476
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corunna 1809 written by Brian L. Kieran and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Brian Kieran has shed more light on Sir John Moore and his heroic retreat during 1808 -1809 through the Galicia Mountains in the middle of Winter to Corunna in Spain. The tragic events of the retreat are graphically described leading to the sombre death of Sir John Moore at the moment of Victory. The one British Army of the time escaped through their evacuation from Corunna from Napoleon and ultimately his Marshals. Moore's skilful campaign caused Napoleon to return to Paris as he could not bear the thought of being defeated or outrun by the More's military skill. Moore's death occurred at the height of the battle at Corunna and he was aware of the victory before he died a painful death. More's death gave rise to the composition of a number of poem's yet the most famous was written by an Irishman; in England it became a children's Memorial to a Great Man. "But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." Moore could have been given no greater honour at that time when Soult ordered the firing of a salute of Cannon.

Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846035384
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corunna 1809 written by Philip Haythornthwaite and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The retreat to Corunna is one of the epic campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Late in 1808 Sir John Moore found himself virtually alone with his small British army deep inside Spain. The armies of his Spanish allies had been overwhelmed and he faced a victorious French force under the Emperor Napoleon. He had little option but to order a retreat to the port of Corunna. This became the most arduous of trials with armies traversing mountainous terrain over appalling roads in the depths of winter. Somehow Moore held his outnumbered, exhausted men together as they struggled to reach safety. Finally at Corunna Moore's army turned to face its tormentors.

Author : Philip J. Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780275986209
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corunna 1809 written by Philip J. Haythornthwaite and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late in 1808 Sir John Moore, virtually alone with his small British army and facing the French led by Napoleon himself, fell back towards Corunna. The retreat became an arduous trial, traversing mountainous terrain over appalling roads in the depths of winter. Finally, at Corunna his men turned to face their tormentors.

Author : Christopher Summerville
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1853675644
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book March Of Death written by Christopher Summerville and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bitter winter of 1808, a small British force found itself outnumbered and outmanouevered by a French army led by none other than the emperor Napoleon. Faced with crushing defeat, the British, commanded by Sir John Moore, turned and began a legendary march through the snow and ice of northern Spain to freedom and escape. Napoleon, swearing that he would drive the British leopard into the sea, pursued and an epic was born.

Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787206688
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corunna written by Christopher Hibbert and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried.’ —from ‘The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna’ by Charles Wolfe One of the best remembered poems in the English language has served to keep alive the memory of Sir John Moore and of his burial at Corunna on 17 January, 1809. The story of the battle which he fought on the previous day and of the short campaign and horrifying retreat which preceded it is, however, not so well known. The Battle of Corunna saved a British army from annihilation and resulted in the tragic death of one of England’s finest generals. Setting out from Lisbon in the autumn of 1808, Sir John Moore had marched his army into Spain against Napoleon and by a daring manoeuvre had thrown it across the line of French communications. But, having thus drawn off Napoleon’s army from Madrid, Moore found himself so outnumbered and with no hope of assistance from the ineffectual Spanish armies, that he decided to withdraw to the coast. After a 250-mile retreat across the mountains of Galicia under appalling weather conditions, with inadequate food supplies and the French hard on his heels, he eventually reached the port of Corunna. Here he turned and drew up his depleted forces to face Marshal Soult’s massive army; and, though mortally wounded in the ensuing battle, he lived long enough to learn that the French had been checked and that his own army would be able to embark in safety. In Corunna extensive use is made of the many eyewitness accounts which survive in the form of official despatches, histories, diaries, memoirs and letters. With the aid of these, Christopher Hibbert not only shows a remarkable understanding of John Moore and his fellow officers, of their conflicting characters and views, but also provides a horrifying picture of the hardships of this brief and bitter campaign.

Author : Paul L Dawson
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 152675410X
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon's Peninsular War written by Paul L Dawson and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned historian captures the French experience of the Peninsular War through soldiers’ unpublished memoirs and eyewitness accounts. While much has been written about the British campaigns of the Peninsular War, surprisingly little has been published in English on their opponents, the French. Now, using previously unseen material from the French army archives in Paris, Paul Dawson tells the story of the early years of the Peninsular War as never before. Eyewitness accounts of the Siege of Zaragoza and the Spanish defeats at Medellin and Ocaña are interspersed with details of campaign life and of struggling through the Galician mountains in pursuit of the British army. Dawson captures the perspectives of ordinary French soldiers and their beliefs about the war they were fighting for their Emperor. Napoleon’s Peninsular War is a vital and unprecedented addition to our understanding of the war in Iberia.

Author : Sir Archibald Alison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlas to Alison's History of Europe written by Sir Archibald Alison and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Oman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Peninsular War: Jan.-Sept. 1809. From the battle of Corunna to the end of the Talavera campaign written by Charles Oman and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Download or read book The 43rd & 52nd Light Infantry Chronicle, 1894 written by Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: