Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran

• Autore: Anderson C.B. K.H Lt.-Colonel Joseph
• Pubblicazione: San Francisco : , : Wagram Press, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (130 pages)
• Disciplina: 940.274
• Altri autori: AndersonCaptain Acland
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- ORDERS AND MEDALS -- CHAPTER I - EARLY EXPERIENCES -- CHAPTER II -THE CAMPAIGN OF MAIDA -- CHAPTER III - IN EGYPT -- CHAPTER IV - THE EL-HAMET DISASTER -- CHAPTER V - THE BATTLE OF TALAVERA -- CHAPTER VI - THE BATTLE OF BUSACO -- CHAPTER VII - THE LINES OF TORRES VEDRAS -- CHAPTER VIII - THE LOST REGIMENTAL BOOKS -- CHAPTER IX - THE BATTLE OF FUENTES D'ONORO -- CHAPTER X - IN SCOTLAND -- CHAPTER XI - VOYAGE TO BARBADOS -- CHAPTER XII - ST. VINCENT AND GUADELOUPE -- CHAPTER XIII-DOMINICA -- CHAPTER XIV - AN AMUSING DUEL -- CHAPTER XV - CHASED BY A PIRATE -- CHAPTER XVI - LIFE IN JAMAICA -- CHAPTER XVII - HOME AGAIN AND MARRIED -- CHAPTER XVIII - TO NEW SOUTH WALES -- CHAPTER XIX - NORFOLK ISLAND -- CHAPTER XX - SUNDAY SERVICES AT NORFOLK ISLAND -- CHAPTER XXI - LIFE AT NORFOLK ISLAND -- Solitary case of misconduct among the soldier gang -- I get many pardoned and many sentences shortened -- Theatricals and other amusements -- Visit from my brother -- Mr. MacLeod -- CHAPTER XXII - MANGALORE CATTLE STATION -- CHAPTER XXIII - ON MY DEFENCE -- CHAPTER XXIV - ORDERED TO CALCUTTA -- CHAPTER XXV - LIFE AT CALCUTTA -- CHAPTER XXVI - AT MOULMEIN -- CHAPTER XXVII - VOYAGE UP THE GANGES -- CHAPTER XXVIII - IN COMMAND AT CAWNPORE -- CHAPTER XXIX - THE GWALIOR CAMPAIGN -- CHAPTER XXX - WOUNDED AND MADE MUCH OF -- CHAPTER XXXI - RETURN TO CAWNPORE -- CHAPTER XXXII - ON LEAVE FOR TWO YEARS -- CHAPTER XXXIII - AUSTRALIA ONCE MORE -- CHAPTER XXXIV - SECOND VOYAGE TO CALCUTTA -- CHAPTER XXXV - TO CAWNPORE AND BACK -- CHAPTER XXXVI - INDIA TO CAPE TOWN -- CHAPTER XXXVII - RETURN TO ENGLAND -- CHAPTER XXXVIII - FAREWELL TO THE 50TH REGIMENT.
• Sommario/riassunto: Lt. Col. Anderson wrote his memoirs as for his own family not suspecting their interest to the larger reading public. As such they hold a charm of their own apart from a number of the more swashbuckling accounts of soldier's adventures in the British army during the Napoleonic and Victorian periods. That is not to say that they are staid in any way but written from a more modest view-point than some.Joining the British army at the tender age of fifteen as an ensign in the 78th Regiment of Foot, he took part on the clash at Maida in which an out-numbered British force decisively defeated the French division of General Reynier. Posted to the main Peninsular theatre of war, he took part on the battles of Talavera, Busaco and Fuentes d'Oñoro.A humane and reasonable man capable of great bravery, such as going into French lines to recover the body of his dead friend, Anderson's memoirs have deserved a greater audience than the circle of his family and were duly published after his death.Author - Lt.-Col Joseph Anderson C.B. K.H. 01/06/1790 - ??/01/1877
• Titolo autorizzato: Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran
• ISBN: 1-908692-43-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910164081403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II