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The Adventures of a Light Dragoon in the Napoleonic Wars - A Cavalryman During the Peninsular & Waterloo Campaigns, in Captivity & at the Siege of Bhu
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Artikel-Nr:
9781846770401
Veröffentl:
2006
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.04.2006
Seiten:
236
Autor:
George Farmer
Gewicht:
339 g
Format:
216x140x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
MORE ENGAGING THAN A NOVEL - A CAVALRYMAN'S LIFEIN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AND BATTLES FOR INDIA.
Trooper Farmer's military career was packed with adventure and
incident. Through his words the reader experiences life in the British Light Cavalry on campaign in Spain against the French. During one sharp
action Farmer is taken prisoner and we follow him through captivity until his release at the First Restoration. Napoleon's return puts him back in the saddle once again to go to war on the bloody field of Waterloo. Although he had already experienced enough action for a lifetime Farmer was then dispatched to India to play his part in the early days of the conquest of the sub-continent.
A gripping military memoir!
Trooper Farmer's military career was packed with adventure and
incident. Through his words the reader experiences life in the British Light Cavalry on campaign in Spain against the French. During one sharp
action Farmer is taken prisoner and we follow him through captivity until his release at the First Restoration. Napoleon's return puts him back in the saddle once again to go to war on the bloody field of Waterloo. Although he had already experienced enough action for a lifetime Farmer was then dispatched to India to play his part in the early days of the conquest of the sub-continent.
A gripping military memoir!