The Far Campaigning Soldier: a Personal Account of Military service from 1781-1813 in the West Indies, the Egyptian Campaign and the Walcheren Expe

by William Dyott

Book Overview

Personal observations of small campaigns of the Napoleonic age

The long period of the French Revolution, the Consulate and Napoleon's First Empire was notable not as a departure from almost perpetual hostility with the British, but because upon the conclusion of hostilities in 1815 the two nations never again went to war against each other. Military first-hand accounts from this era abound, though predictably most concern the theatres of war...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178282488X
• ISBN13: 9781782824886
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"