Wellington Invades France

Author : Ian Robertson
Publisher : Frontline
ISBN 13 : 9781473883017
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wellington Invades France written by Ian Robertson and published by Frontline. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, in the late summer of 1813, Wellington's troops approached the Pyrenees to enter France, the Peninsular War was far from won. Indeed, with their French adversaries defending their own soil, months of severe, relentless fighting were to follow. In this compelling account of the closing period of the Peninsular War, Ian Robertson records the difficult and brutal fighting which so characterise this phase of a stubborn, six-year conflict. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and official despatches, Ian Robertson outlines the nature of the war as well as tracing the complicated manoeuvring and operations of the British and French armies. He describes in detail such hard-fought actions as at Sorauren, the Nivelle and the last great battle of the war at Toulouse, as well as some less-well-known clashes in the unforgiving terrain of the Pyrenees. For Wellington, as well as his men, the campaign in France was a test of stamina and endurance in hostile territory, and fighting an implacable and energetic foe. Wellington's troops fought hard to win their crown of victories and bring the war to a successful conclusion.

Author : Ian Robertson
Publisher : Greenhill Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wellington Invades France written by Ian Robertson and published by Greenhill Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of Wellington's campaign in the south of France. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and official dispatches, Ian Robertson outlines the nature of the war as well as traces the complicated maneuvering and operations of the British and French armies. He describes in detail such hard-fought actions as the Nivelle, Orthez, Toulouse, and Bayonne and throws light on some less well-known clashes, many of which were fought in the unforgiving terrain of the Pyrenees.

Author : Nick Lipscombe
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781472802774
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bayonne and Toulouse 1813–14 written by Nick Lipscombe and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The news of Wellington's momentous victory at Vitoria on 21 June 1813 reached London in early July. The celebration spawned an expectation of a rapid conclusion to events in the Peninsula. His Majesty's Government gave authority for Wellington to invade France and made noises and plans for the redeployment of the Peninsular Army in support of Russia and Prussia. Wellington, however, did not see things in quite the same way. His army was worn out and there remained sizeable French forces in Spain, so what followed had to be a carefully thought out and planned campaign. The invasion of France is a complicated aspect of the culmination of the War in Iberia: indeed many historians consider the invasion and subsequent operations in southern France as separate from the Peninsular War as a whole. The preliminaries include Wellington's need to capture Pamplona and San Sebastian prior to the invasion and Soult's attempts to relieve both garrisons resulting in the Battle of the Pyrenees (July-August) and San Marcial (late August) respectively. The invasion itself commenced with the daring Allied crossing of the Bidassoa estuary in early October 1813 and was followed by an operational pause prior to the Battle of Nivelle in November, another pause to re-group and the subsequent offensives on the River Nive and the Battle of St. Pierre. This phase, and ipso facto the invasion, was complete by mid December 1813. Finally, the subsequent operations, which commenced early in 1814, provided the aftermath to the invasion and the conclusion to the Peninsular War. These actions focus primarily on the investment of Bayonne and the pursuit of Soult's army east, and include the battles and engagements at Garris, Orthez, Aire, Tarbes and the final showdown at Toulouse in April 1814.

Author : Herbert R. Clinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War in the Peninsula, and Wellington's Campaigns in France and Belgium written by Herbert R. Clinton and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. c. Beatson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846772948
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wellington and the Invasion of France written by F. c. Beatson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Napoleon's French Army retreated, all hope that it could maintain a hold over the Iberian Peninsula began to fade. By September of 1813 the Allied Army commanded by the 'captain of the age'-the Duke of Wellington-stood on the frontier of France within the area of the estuary of the Bidassoa. Napoleon was being pressed on two fronts, but he still had a large reserve of veteran troops stationed in the south of France to call upon. The time had come to tighten the grip on France. Wellington would now invade it, engage the southern army which it was hoped would spur the Coalition of northern European powers to greater endeavours to bring about its defeat. No longer now an expanding empire, the French were faced with the defence of their own homeland and Wellington was poised for a campaign which would bring a large and prosperous region of it under allied control. It would be a contest bitterly fought as only those with desperate stakes can be. In this, the second of Beatson's series on the fall of Revolutionary France published by Leonaur, the reader is once again taken into the centre of Wellington's strategic and tactical genius. Every action is described in detail and complemented by the voices of the soldiers who experienced those momentous times.

Author : F. C. Beatson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783313358
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wellington written by F. C. Beatson and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1925, this rare book recounts the final phase of the Peninsular War when Wellington chased the French across the Pyrenees into France, defeating them again at the Battle of Orthez. Illustrated with early 20th c. photos of the battlefields, and reproduces the Iron Duke's campaign plans and battlefield orders.

Author : Jac Weller
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783830883
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wellington in the Peninsula, 1808–1814 written by Jac Weller and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-05-19 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Wellington at Waterloo delivers an in-depth history of the military commander’s tactics and strategy in the Peninsular War. After gaining strategic and tactical experience in Colonial India, Arthur Wellesley went to battle against French forces in the Peninsular War. With his decisive victories there, he ascended to the peerage of the United Kingdom as the 1st Duke of Wellington. Inthis volume, historian Jac Weller delivers a complete account of Wellington’s career on the Iberian Peninsula, covering all the battles in which he took part. Talavera, The battles of Busaco, Salamanca and Vitoria are among the famous conflicts Weller brings to life in the lively chronicle, combining meticulous research with extensive visits to the historic battlefields. Supplementing his accessible narrative with photographs, Weller demonstrates how this great commander finally achieved victory after six years of battle against Napoleon’s army.

Author : Herbert Russell Clinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War in the Peninsula, and Wellington's Campaigns in France and Belgium written by Herbert Russell Clinton and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert R. Clinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War in the Peninsula, and Wellington's Campaigns in France and Belgium written by Herbert R. Clinton and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert R. Clinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War in the Peninsula, and Wellington's Campaigns in France and Belgium written by Herbert R. Clinton and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: