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At Wellington's Right Hand - Hardcover

Muir, Rory

 
9780750933803: At Wellington's Right Hand
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0750933801 ISBN 13: 9780750933803
Verlag: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2003

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Alexander Gordon was no ordinary soldier. In the Coruna campaign of 1808-9 he served as aide-de-camp to his uncle, Sir David Baird; then, in 1809, he joined Wellington's staff shortly before the battle of Talavera and remained at Wellington's side throughout the Peninsular War and in the Waterloo campaign. Both Baird and Wellington trusted him implicitly and he was perfectly placed to see how their plans developed. His long, confidential letters home to his brother, Lord Aberdeen, provide a unique insight into the British campaigns in the Peninsula. Written weekly or, at particularly interesting times, as a daily journal the letters record every twist and turn, every raised hope and false alarm of the campaigns and often explain the thinking which lay behind Wellington's operations more fully than in Wellington's own despatches. The letters represent an important source on the Peninsular War.

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Rory Muir is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of History, University of Adelaide. He is the author of three books on the Napoleonic Wars. Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1807-1815, Tactica and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon, and Salamanca, 1812.

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Verlag
Sutton Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0750933801
ISBN 13 
9780750933803
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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