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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:
9781846770562
Veröffentl:
2006
Einband:
HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.04.2006
Seiten:
236
Autor:
George Farmer
Gewicht:
484 g
Format:
222x145x18 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 andincident. Through his words the reader experiences life in the British Light Cavalry on campaign in Spain against the French. During one sharpaction 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 ofWaterloo. Although he had already experienced enough action for a lifetime Farmer was then dispatched to India to play his part in theearly days of the conquest of the sub-continent.A gripping military memoir!