Sergeant Guillemard: The Man Who Shot Nelson? a Soldier of the Infantry of the French Army of Napoleon on Campaign Throughout Europe

Guillemard, Robert

ISBN 10: 1846772621 / ISBN 13: 9781846772627

Published by Leonaur Ltd, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sergeant Guillemard: The Man Who Shot Nelson? a Soldier of the Infantry of the French Army of Napoleon on Campaign Throughout Europe
• Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846772621
• ISBN 13: 9781846772627
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Robert Guillemard was one of those unusual people (a real life example of a character type now very popular in fiction) who found himself engaging with remarkable people during important historical events-not just once, but repeatedly! As a young soldier he found himself in the top of a French battleship at Trafalgar as the Victory closed for action and it was him-he claims-who fired the fatal shot that killed Nelson. He was present at the murder of Villeneuve, the defeated French admiral, and in the company of Napoleon. He fought in Germany at Stralsund and at Wagram. He campaigned in the Peninsula, was, captured and escaped. After the siege of Tortosa and the award of the Legion of Honour he marched on the fateful campaign into Russia-fighting at Borodino and beyond. There are a number of first-hand accounts of French soldiers of the Infantry during the Napoleonic Wars that have been reprinted with some regularity, but Robert Guillemard's with be an unfamiliar and new delight to many modern readers.