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MEMOIRS OF THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL LE MARCHANT

Very rare reprint of the privately circulated military memoirs of a General who fell at the battle of Salamanca in 1812, leading the charge of his Heavy Brigade. Invaluable insight into the Napoleonic and Peninsula wars by a fighting commander. Profusely Illustrated by the author.

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LIGHT DRAGOON

Written by the Rev G. R. Gleig, chaplain of Chelsea Hospital, from the recollections of a pensioner, George Farmer, who had joined the 11th Hussars in 1808 and served with them in the Peninsula and in India until his discharge in 1836.

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HORROR RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILLITY. Memories of the Waterloo Campaign

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HORROR RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILLITY. Memories of the Waterloo Campaign

Scholarly, annotated edition of a Waterloo veteran’s recollections. The author wrote the book up fifty years after the campaign from his own letters. Edited with introduction, commentary and footnotes by Dr Stanley Monick.

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WITH ‘THE THIRTY-SECOND’ IN THE PENINSULAR AND OTHER CAMPAIGNS

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WITH ‘THE THIRTY-SECOND’ IN THE PENINSULAR AND OTHER CAMPAIGNS

Anglo-Irish Officer’s memoirs of the Peninsular, Waterloo and other Napoleonic campaigns. The book was recommended by Wellington himself.

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BRITISH RIFLE MAN: the Journals & Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade during the Peninsular War & Campaign of Waterloo

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BRITISH RIFLE MAN: the Journals & Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade during the Peninsular War & Campaign of Waterloo

George Simmons joined the Lincoln Militia in 1805 as Assistant Surgeon and transferred in 1809 to the 95th Rifles. He retired in 1845 and died in Jersey in 1858.Simmons was a fine officer and this book is a classic.

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IBERIAN AND WATERLOO CAMPAIGNS. The Letters of Lt James Hope
(92nd (Highland) Regiment) 1811-1815

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IBERIAN AND WATERLOO CAMPAIGNS. The Letters of Lt James Hope (92nd (Highland) Regiment) 1811-1815

Annotated and scholarly edition of an officer’s letters from the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign. The author served for two years in the 1st Battalion of the 92nd Highland regiment in Spain and fought at Waterloo in the same unit. His text is accompanied by a full and instructive intr...

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CHATHAM’S JACK NASTYFACE
Memoirs of an English Seaman

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CHATHAM’S JACK NASTYFACE Memoirs of an English Seaman

Jack Nastyface, a rare witness from the lower deck, faced the wrath of the enemy at Trafalgar as well as the draconian discipline of the Royal Navy and lived to tell this eye-opening tale, first published in 1836.

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NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON

Well written and well organised...as entertaining as it is instructive...original and judicious both a military and personal history’ Christopher Hibbert, Sunday Times

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NOTEBOOKS OF CAPTAIN COIGNET: Soldier of the Empire 1776-1850

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NOTEBOOKS OF CAPTAIN COIGNET: Soldier of the Empire 1776-1850

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NAPOLEON’S ARMY IN RUSSIA

A beautifully produced pictorial and written record of Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, as seen by Albrecht Adam, a soldier turned talented military artist who witnessed and described in words and pictures all the major actions of that momentous year.

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