LEADER 02832oam 2200385z- 450 001 9910136838603321 005 20230906203136.0 010 $a9781848329638 010 $a1848329636 035 $a(CKB)3710000000907804 035 $a(BIP)062914072 035 $a(BIP)054270677 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781848329638 035 $a(Perlego)2446186 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000907804 100 $a20210511d2016 uy | 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aHistory of the Waterloo Campaign $eThe Classic Account of the Last Battle of the Napoleonic Wars 210 $cFrontline Books 215 $a1 online resource (656 p.) 225 $aThe Napoleonic Library 311 08$a9781848329614 311 08$a184832961X 330 8 $aCaptain William Siborne became an ensign in the 9th Foot in 1813 and was sent to France in 1815 as part of a battalion despatched to reinforce Wellington's army. A notable topographer, after the events that year he was commissioned to create a scale model of the Battle of Waterloo, for which he carried out extensive research, writing to officers in the allied forces present to obtain information. The subsequent correspondence amounted to the largest single collection of primary source material on the subject ever assembled. After he had completed his model, which is today on public display in the National Army Museum in London, he used the mass of information he had gathered to produce his History of the Waterloo Campaign, which was at the time the most detailed account of the operations of 1815 and is still considered a classic work on the subject. Siborne's history of Waterloo, the latest addition to Frontline's growing Napoleonic Library, is essential and gripping reading for all those who are interested in how this famous battle was fought and won. AUTHOR: The son of Captain Benjamin of the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot, Siborne joined the regiment on 9 September 1813. In August 1815 he joined Wellington's army in France. In 1819 he published his first book. This led to him being commissioned to produce his model of the Battle which is still in the National Army Museum. He died on 9 January 1849. SELLING POINTS: * A detailed and highly-regarded classic account of the events of the Waterloo campaign. * Accounts from every branch of the British Army. * It was the letters sent in to the author whilst researching his model that formed the basis of this book. 606 $aWaterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 615 0$aWaterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815. 676 $a940.2742 700 $aSiborne$b H.T$01748781 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136838603321 996 $aHistory of the Waterloo Campaign$94352806 997 $aUNINA