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The Walcheren Expedition: the Experiences of a British Officer of the 81st Regt. During the Campaign in the Low Countries of 1809 - Couverture souple

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9781846776359: The Walcheren Expedition: the Experiences of a British Officer of the 81st Regt. During the Campaign in the Low Countries of 1809
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 184677635X ISBN 13 : 9781846776359
Editeur : Leonaur Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

A little covered Napoleonic campaign

The Walcheren Expedition often appears in military memoirs of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, though rarely in much detail. The impression that the reader gains is that it was a campaign of appalling conditions producing crippling and debilitating illness that swept away many and left survivors so broken in health that they were unfit for immediate military service and indeed were frequently invalided for life. Here then is a rare account in the form of letters by a serving British infantry line officer of that campaign. This was a war of stalemate where British and French soldiers struggled with each other and the putrid miasmas that rose from the stagnant swamps of this worst of battlegrounds. For students of the Napoleonic Wars this book will provide important insight into a disastrous sideshow.

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Éditeur
Leonaur Ltd
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
184677635X
ISBN 13 
9781846776359
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
156
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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