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Napoleonic Britain: A Guide to Fortresses, Statues and Memorials of the French Wars 1792-1815 - Hardcover

Buttery, David

 
9781399084376: Napoleonic Britain: A Guide to Fortresses, Statues and Memorials of the French Wars 1792-1815
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1399084372 ISBN 13: 9781399084376
Verlag: Pen & Sword Military, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

This is the first guide to sites in the British Isles connected to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars to be published. Stately homes, memorials, statues, dockyards, fortifications, tombs, churches, hospitals and museums associated with the wars are all described in vivid detail. There are hundreds of such sites with many of them being closely linked to military heroes like Wellington and Nelson and the forces they commanded.Highpoints include not only St Paul’s Cathedral, Nelson’s Column and Apsley House in London but more obscure monuments and buildings outside the capital like Edinburgh Castle, HMS Victory in Portsmouth Dockyard, the Western Heights Fortifications in Dover, Fishguard invasion site in Wales, Castlebar battlefield in Ireland and Martello towers along the English coastline. Many minor sites of great interest are listed too.David Buttery’s guidebook gives the reader a fascinating insight into this long period of conflict between the British and the French and into the buildings, statues and memorials that commemorate it.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Buttery has established a reputation as a leading historian of nineteenth-century British military history and he has made a particular study of the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars.

He has worked as a tour guide for several companies and has led tours of the Waterloo campaign battlefields.

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Verlag
Pen & Sword Military
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1399084372
ISBN 13 
9781399084376
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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