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1 online resource (xviii, 382 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Dedication; Introduction; Body Matter; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Chapter VIII; Chapter IX; Chapter X; Chapter XI; Chapter XII; Chapter XIII; Chapter XIV; Chapter XV; Chapter XVI; Chapter XVII; Chapter XVIII; Chapter XIX; Chapter XX; Chapter XXI; Chapter XXII; Chapter XXIII; Chapter XXIV; Chapter XXV; Chapter XXVI; Chapter XXVII; Chapter XXVIII; Chapter XXIX; Chapter XXX; Chapter XXXI; Back Matter; Index |
| Summary |
The Peninsular War was the first of Britain's many foreign conflicts in which increasing literacy produced a bumper crop of memoirs, not only by Generals and senior officers, but by ordinary rankers and subalterns too. This book is one of the very best. It's author, Robert Blakeney, enlisted in 1804 in the 28th regiment of Infantry as an Irish boy at the tender age of fifteen. As such, he was in at the beginning of the long war in the Iberian peninsular, and stuck through to the end, witness .. |
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"Reproduced by kind permission of the Central Library, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst." |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Peninsular War, 1807-1814 -- Personal narratives, British
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781781499757 |
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1781499756 |
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