Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 - 1815

Captain J Kincaid

ISBN 10: 1847347894 / ISBN 13: 9781847347893

Published by Naval & Military Press, 2007

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 - 1815 | Captain J Kincaid | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2007 | Naval & Military Press | EAN 9781847347893 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Seller Inventory # 101874255

Synopsis:

The Rifle Brigade, one of the British Army's crack infantry units, took part in most of Britian's land campaigns in the Napoleonic Wars and this memoir recounts the adventures of a Scottish officer who was there for all of them from Walcheren in 1805 to Waterloo in 1815. The heart of the memoir, however, is the Peninsula War in which Kincaid served under Wellington at the lines ofTorres Vedras, and in the battle of Fuentes d'Onoro, the sieges of Ciudad Roderigo and Badajoz, and the battles of Salamanca and Vittoria. The author describes the pursuit of Marshal Soult across the Pyrenees and the battles of Nivelle and Toulouse. The memoir concludes with the Waterloo campaign in which KIncaid fought at Quatre-Bras and Waterloo itself. This is an invaluable addition to the bookshelves of Napoleonic war addicts, as seen through the eyes of an intelligent writer who seems to have been at the sharp end from first to last.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the ...
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Buch
Condition: Neu