Wagram Press: 312 books
The adventures of Captain John Patterson
with notices of the officers, &c. of the 50th, or Queen's own regiment, from 1807 to 1821.
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Captain Patterson's adventures are written in a companionable, good natured style which leads the reader through the Peninsular War towards the Pyrenees and Southern France Campaign. This account is filled with much essential information of the campaign and the battlefields, as well as entertaining...
Recollections Of The Eventful Life Of A Soldier
By The Late Joseph Donaldson, Sergeant In The Ninety-Fourth Scots Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Donaldson “was born in Glasgow, where his father was employed by a mercantile house. With some school companions he ran away to sea and made a voyage to the West Indies, which disenchanted him of a sea life, and he returned home and was sent back to school by his father. Early in 1809 he again ran...
A Cavalry Officer In The Corunna Campaign 1808-1809:
The Journal Of Captain Gordon Of The 15th Hussars
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Captain Gordon led a troop of the 15th Hussars during the first of the British army’s campaigns into Spain, commanded by Sir John Moore. Unearthed and published many years after it was written by the esteemed Regimental historian Colonel Wylly, his diary bears testimony to the events of the retreat...
by Lieutenant-Colonel William Tomkinson, Rt. Hon. James Tomkinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Lieutenant Colonel Tomkinson's memoirs are a rarity amongst the many books written by British soldiers of their experiences during the Napoleonic period, in that it has been written by a cavalryman. This in itself makes the book interesting, but the author was also a witness to many of the pivotal...
by William Hamilton Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Despite the rather prosaic title, these two volumes contain some of the best eye-witness accounts of the Peninsular War. Maxwell wrote a number of books on the Napoleonic Wars himself, the research for which put him in contact with numerous ex-soldiers. In these two volumes, he assembled their accounts...
The Private Journal of F.S. Larpent - Vol. I
attached to the head-quarters of Lord Wellington during the Peninsular War, from 1812 to its close
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Wellington added a Judge-Advocate-General to his staff in 1812 “to ensure that courts-martial were conducted with proper forms and due appreciation of the validity of evidence – in which the commander-in-chief considered that they had often failed . . . Larpent, who has left an interesting diary...
Human Voices of the Russian Campaign of 1812
a translation of “Etudes d’Histoire”
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Few French historians of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period have the stature of Arthur Chuquet, his copious writings on the era are most penetrating and accurate. He was also a master of infusing them with a character of the men that shaped the age; this was possible only by his encyclopaedic...
by General Fortune de Brack
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
General De Brack served Napoleon and France for many years as a light cavalryman during the wars that raged for over a decade. He served under some of the most able and dashing of officers, including the legendary Lasalle and the celebrated Pajol. During this time, the skills and instincts of outpost...
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by Henry Houssaye
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations.
Houssaye’s history of the 1815 campaign stands out as perhaps the most complete and least biased French account of the campaign that culminated in the downfall of Napoleon. Filled with...
by Herbert H. Sergeant
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The situation in 1800 was not auspicious for the new born French Republic, Napoleon Bonaparte, as he then was, had with some aid from his family, fellow army officers and politicians, overthrown the venal and corrupt Directory. However France was menaced on its German borders by a vast Austrian army...
by Sir John Henry Newbolt
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
A happy idea carried to excellent completion by very competent hands is the best description of The Year of Trafalgar, by Henry Newbolt. It is not likely that this year of splendid memory will find a worthier literary tribute than this delightful volume. Mr. Newbolt’s is much more than a familiar...
by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
F. Lorraine Petre was at the forefront of a number of British historians who wrote at the turn of the 20th Century who advanced the knowledge, understanding of Napoleonic times and warfare hugely. Petre wrote a number of books on the subject, particularly because of the dearth of information focusing...
by General Freiherr (Baron) Friedrich Karl Ferdinand von Müffling
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Baron von Müffling was an eye-witness to some of the most decisive events of the Napoleonic Wars, born into a noble family he went into the Prussian service, and saw action in the early campaigns of the Revolutionary wars in Holland and Belgium, during which he said he learned very little. He was...
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by General Sir James Shaw Kennedy, K.C.B.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations.
Captain James Kennedy, as he then was, served with distinction throughout the Peninsula War under both Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington as a regimental officer, on the staff,...