ePub Illustrated Battles of the Napoleonic Age-Volume 1: Marengo; Copenhagen; Egypt; Janissary Rebellion; Laswaree Assaye; Pulo Aor; Austerlitz; Trafalgar; Jena; Maida; Walcheren and Albuera by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne; D. H. Parry in History

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This book lays bare the truth behind the adventures of Flashman and Sharpe. It includes ten eyewitness accounts of the battles; the privations and the adventure of armed service during the French Revolutionary War; the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 - a time of hussars; artillery; musket sword; patriotic fervour; inspired commanders; heroes and; always; bloody carnage on the field. From Austerlitz to Moscow; New Orleans to Salamanca here we find the ordinary soldier's view of the war: the battles and the campaigns that set Europe and America alight. Gathered from memoirs; letters and dairies this book includes gripping accounts of the era's greatest engagements as well as giving details of the soldier's life: short rations; long marches; pitiful wounds; pillage; lashings; armours and so often; death.