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Gomm G.C.B Field-Marshal Sir William Maynard |
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Letters And Journals Of Field Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm, G.C.B. &c, &c, From 1799 to Waterloo, 1815 |
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San Francisco : , : Wagram Press, , 2011 |
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©2011 |
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1 online resource (278 pages) |
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Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 |
Generals - Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Title page -- PREFACE. -- CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER I. -- INTRODUCTORY. -- CHAPTER II. -- 1794-1799. -- PARENTAGE-FIRST COMMISSION-WOOLWICH-JOINS 9TH REGIMENT-EXPEDITION TO THE HELDER-BATTLE OF BERGEN. -- CHAPTER III. -- 1800-1805. -- COAST OF PORTUGAL-VIGO BAY-GIBRALTAR-LISBON-RETURN HOME-ADE-DE-CAMP TO GENERAL COMMANDING N.W. DISTRICT-IRELAND JOINS STAFF COLLEGE, HIGH WYCOMBE-COMES OF AGE-CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIS AUNT. -- CHAPTER IV. -- 1805-1808. -- EXPEDITION TO BREMEN-RETURNS TO STAFF COLLEGE-PASSES EXAMINATION-EXPEDITION TO STRALSUND-BOMBARDMENT OF COPENHAGEN-ARMY RECEIVES THANKS OF PARLIAMENT. -- CHAPTER V. -- 1808. -- IRELAND-ALMOST JOINS SIR TORN MOORE'S EXPEDITION TO SWEDEN-ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL-EXPEDITION TO SPAIN UNDER SIR A. WELLESLEY-LANDS AT MONDEGO BAY-BATTLE OF ROLIÇA-BATTLE OF VIMIERA-CONVENTION OF CINTRA-LISBON. -- CHAPTER VI. -- 1808-1809. -- UNDER SIR JOHN MOORE-SENT ON TO EXAMINE ROADS INTO SPAIN-ADVANCE-NO LETTERS-RETREAT TO CORUNNA-DEATH OF SIR JOHN MOORE-DANGEROUS VOYAGE HOME-CANTER BURY-COACH ACCIDENT. -- CHAPTER VII. -- 1809. -- WALCHEREN EXPEDITION. -- CHAPTER VIII. -- 1810. -- PENINSULAR WAR-LISBON-CONVENT OF BATALHA-THE PORTUGUESE ARMY-THOMAR. -- CHAPTER IX. -- 1810. |
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-- SENT TO PORTUGAL TO COLLECT INFORMATION-CONTRAST BETWEEN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE ON THE FRONTIER-ALBUQUERQUE-BADAJOS-THE MARQUIS OF ROMANA-ELVAS-ALCANTARA-FORCED MARCH-BATTLE OF BUSACO-RETREAT THROUGH COIMBRA PURSUED BY MASSENA-THE LINES OF TORRES VEDRAS-SDEATH OF PRINCESS AMELIA. -- CHAPTER X. -- 1811. -- TORRES VEDRAS-MASSENA DRIVEN BACK-VANDALISM OF FRENCH HORRORS OF THE RETREAT-COMBATS OF POMBAL, REDINHA, CABAL NOVA-JEALOUSY OF PORTUGUESE AND SPANIARDS-BATTLE OF FUENTES D'OÑOR-ALBUERA-CHARLES COMTE D'ESPAGNA-A BEAUTIFUL ENCAMPMENT. -- CHAPTER XI. -- 1811-1812. |
THE PASS OF PERALES-GRAND SCENERY-STORMS-GUARDA-PROMOTION TO MAJORITY-ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL-STORMING OF CIUDAD RODRIGO-CAPTURE-ADVANCE UPON BADAJOS. -- CHAPTER XII. -- 1812. -- SIEGE-STORMING AND CAPTURE OF BADAJOS-MOIMENTA DA BEIRA-SENT TO EXPLORE BEYOND DOMO-BEAUTY OF SCENERY IN TRAS-OS-MONTES-SALAMONDE, ETC.-ADVANCE DRIVING MARMONT OVER THE TORMES-SIEGE OF SALAMANCA-CAPTURE-BATTLE OF SALAMANCA-GENERAL LEITH. -- CHAPTER XIII. -- 1812. -- ENTRY INTO MADRID-ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION-LIEUTENANT-COLONEL- FOR SALAMANCA-BURGOS-UNSUCCESSFUL SIEGE-TERRIBLE RETREAT-NEARLY DROWNED-DEATH OF HIS GRANDFATHER-LAMEGO-SURVEYING IN TRAS-OS-MONTES-ADVANCE OF THE ARMY OVER DOURO TO VITTORIA. -- CHAPTER XIV. -- 1813. -- BATTLE OF VITTORIA-BEFORE SAN SEBASTIAN-FAILURE OF ASSAULT-WANT OF ENGINEERING CARE-THE DESPATCH OF VITTORIA-BROTHER (LIEUTENANT-COLONEL HENRY GOMM) SEVERELY WOUNDED IN BATTLE OF PYRENEES-CAPTURE OF SAN SEBASTIAN-TOWN BURNT. -- CHAPTER XV. -- 1813-1814. -- DRIVING THE FRENCH OVER THE FRONTIER-DEATH OF MOREAU-NEARLY TAKEN PRISONER WHILE OUT FOR A RECONNAISSANCE AT BIARRITZ-WOUNDED-SEVERE FIGHTING, NIVE, NIVELLE, AND ST. PIERRE-ALLIES NEARING PARIS-INVESTMENT OF BAYONNE-LAST SORTIE-RAISING OF THE BOURBON WHITLIEUTENANT-COLONEL COLDSTREAM GUARDS. -- CHAPTER XVI. -- 1815. -- KNIGHT COMMANDER OF THE BATH-NAPOLEON'S ESCAPE FROM ELBA-BRUSSELS-APPOINTED TO STAFF-QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL OF 5TH PICTON'S DIVISION-QUATRE BRAS-WATERLOO-DIARY OF THE CAMPAIGN AND MARCH TO PARIS-NOTE ON THE DIARY WRITTEN FIFTY YEARS AFTERWARDS-WATERLOO JOTFINIS. |
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Field-Marshal Gomm's letters and journals provide a first-rate account of the numerous actions, battles and events that he was involved in during the Napoleonic wars. A seasoned officer from a military family, he was an acute observer of all that went on around him, and the notes and letters he wrote, edited by his son, provide a capital trove of information. This collection of his diary entries and letters focuses on the Napoleonic Wars, although he would rise to the highest rank in the British Army and C-in-C of India.Engaged in the early campaigns of the British Army against the French forces from 1799, he was one of the few officers that fought in the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign that actually had some staff training, having passed through Staff College. Many of his contemporaries were somewhat amateur in their outlook to soldiering, but Gomm was a thoughtful and assiduously thorough officer. After the campaign in Portugal and Spain, first under Wellington and then under Sir John Moore, he managed to survive the Walcheren expedition and was then posted back to Spain, where he would serve out the Peninsular war. Present at the battles of Busaco, Fuentes d'Oñoro, Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, the Nive, the Nivelle and St Pierre, as well as the sieges of Cuidad Rodrigo and |
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Badajoz, he was a lieutenant-colonel by the time he left for England. This was a fairly rapid ascent for the time, a signal confirmation of his abilities as a staff and regimental officer, and some influence at home, no doubt.Appointed to the post of Quartermaster General of Picton's fifth division, he was to see the furious combat of Quatre Bras and the "hard pounding" of Waterloo two days later. His position as an unattached staff officer gave him a view of the fields of battle from a position on horseback, and with freedom of movement around the field that few could match. His contemporaneous notes and letters of Waterloo are annotated with his more considered thoughts and views, particularly regarding the "crisis" of Waterloo, the repulse of the last columns of the Garde Impèriale.Author - Field-Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm, G.C.B (1784-1875)Editor - Francis Culling Carr-Gomm (1834-1919)Introduction - Francis Culling Carr-Gomm (1834-1919) |
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