The Personal Narrative of a Private Soldier : Who Served in the Forty-Second Highlanders, for Twelve Years, During the Late War

• Autore: Anonymous
• Pubblicazione: TBD : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 2016; ©2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (137 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.27
• Soggetto topico: Personal narratives
• Nota di contenuto: Title page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- PREFACE, BY THE EDITOR. -- CHAPTER I.-THE RECRUIT. -- CHAPTER II.-EMBARKATION FOR ENGLAND.-WEELY BARRACKS, AND LEXTON CAMP. -- CHAPTER III.-MARCH TO IRELAND.-TUAM.-CAMP OF KILDARE. -- CHAPTER IV.-VOLUNTEERS INTO THE SECOND BATTALION OF THE FORTY-SECOND; THEN INTO THE FIRST BATTALION. -- CHAPTER V.-THE ISLE OF WIGHT, AND VOYAGE TO GIBRALTAR.-GARRISON DUTY AT GIBRALTAR. -- CHAPTER VI.-VOYAGE TO PORTUGAL.-THE BRITISH ARMY THERE.-ITS MARCH INTO SPAIN. -- CHAPTER VII.-MANŒUVRING OF THE FRENCH AND BRITISH ARMIES.-RETREAT FROM SAHAGUN. -- CHAPTER VIII.-THE RETREAT CONTINUED. -- CHAPTER IX.-MARCH CONTINUED. -- CHAPTER X.-BATTLE OF CORUÑA. -- CHAPTER XI.-EMBARKATION AND VOYAGE TO ENGLAND. -- CHAPTER XII.-A SHORT RESPITE IN ENGLAND. -- CHAPTER XIII.-THE EXPEDITION TO WALCHEREN. -- CHAPTER XIV.-THE 42nd AGAIN IN ENGLAND. -- CHAPTER XV.-EMBARK FOR SCOTLAND-STAY AT MUSSELBURGH. -- CHAPTER XVI.-MOVEMENT OF THE ARMY UPON SALAMANCA.-SIEGE OF THAT PLACE, AND OPERATIONS WHICH PRECEDED THE BATTLE. -- CHAPTER XVII.-THE BATTLE OF SALAMANCA. -- CHAPTER XVIII.-THE SIEGE OF BURGOS. -- CHAPTER XIX.-THE RETREAT OF THE BRITISH ARMY FROM BURGOS. -- CHAPTER XX.-WINTER QUARTERS IN PORTUGAL, 1812-13. -- CHAPTER XXI.-THE CAMPAIGN OF 1813.-BATTLE OF VITTORIA. -- CHAPTER XXII.-ENTRANCE INTO FRANCE. -- CHAPTER XXIII.-WAR IN FRANCE, 1814. -- CHAPTER XXIV.-BATTLE OF TOULOUSE. -- CHAPTER XXV.-HOSPITAL.-AND RETURN TO ENGLAND. -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally published in 1821, this book vividly describes scenes of war with all its maddening excitement and all its horrors, as experienced by an anonymous Private who served in the 42nd Highlanders for 12 years during the latter part of the Peninsula War.Inspired by the narrative of an earlier published military diary entitled The Journal of a Solider of the 71st (1819), and having known our anonymous 42nd Soldier since childhood, the (likewise anonymous) editor of The Personal Narrative of a Private Soldier said to himself, "Why might not ******* write the personal Narrative of his Life, as 'a poor, but honest Soldier?'"Subsequently, having read the 71st Soldier's journal "with mingled feelings of pleasure and regret," the editor approached the 42nd Soldier and requested from him, via letters, "a brief but faithful relation of what he did and what he saw, from the time he enlisted till he was discharged in 1814."And thus was born this highly informative first-hand account of one of the most significant wars in history...
• Titolo autorizzato: The Personal Narrative of a Private Soldier
• ISBN: 9781787203013; 1787203018
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157757203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II