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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823233103321

Titolo

A cavalryman in the Crimea : the letters of Temple Godman, 5th Dragoon guards / / edited by Philip Warner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

South Yorkshire, England : , : Pen & Sword Military, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4738-1305-0

1-78383-373-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Disciplina

947.0738092

Soggetti

Crimean War, 1853-1856

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Warships to Varna""; ""2 The Brushwood Plain""; ""3 Cholera""; ""4 Charge of the Heavy Brigade""; ""5 The Winter Siege""; ""6 Building for Survival""; ""7 Bombardment of Sebastopol""; ""8 The Attempt on the Malakoff""; ""9 The Fruits of Victory""; ""10 Home from the Field""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Among the British troops bound for the Black Sea in May 1854 was a young officer in the 5th Dragoon Guards, Richard Temple Godman, who sent home throughout the entire Crimea campaign many detailed letters to his family at Park Hatch in Surrey. Temple Godman went out at the start of the war, took part in the successful Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava and in other engagements, and did not return to England until June 1856, after peace had been declared. He took three very individual horses and despite all his adventures brought them back unscathed.Godman's dispatches from the fields of