Surrender at New Orleans: General Sir Harry Smith in the Peninsula and America

by David Rooney, Michael Scott, Michael Scott

General Sir Harry Smith won the lifelong respect and affection of the Duke of Wellington. Famously married to the Spanish beauty, Juana, after the siege of Badajoz in 1812, they served together to the end of the Peninsula war. With the French defeated, Harry left with the British expedition to America in 1814, and witnessed the burning of the White House. The fiery Admiral Cochrane raged bitterly "I am sorry you left a house standing in Washington...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783831200
• ISBN13: 9781783831203
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"