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THE PENINSULAR JOURNAL, 1808-1817.

By: D'Urban, Benjamin, Major-General Sir. Edited, with introduction, by I.J. Rousseau.

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: London, Greenhill: 1988

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 23451

ISBN: 0947898875

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

355 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). Maps. "Whether among the first three to charge the French guns at Medellin, leading his troopers into the enemy ranks at Salamanca, or evolving order out of the chaos that bedevilled the Portuguese Army in 1809, Sir Benjamin D'Urban was not only a brave and resolute soldier but also a painstaking and highly efficient Chief of Staff to Marshal Beresford. Finding, on arrival at Corunna in October 1808, that he had been appointed to that part of the Army left behind in Portugal, D'Urban set out to meet Sir John Moore in the hope of receiving fresh orders. This was the beg...
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NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.

By: Segur, Philippe de, General Count. Edited by Christopher Summerville.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf, New York.: 2003

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 23798

ISBN: 0786711744

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

306 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "An immediate sensation when it was first published in 1824 under the title 'History of the Expedition to Russia, Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812', this remarkable chronicle offers an at once extraordinary heroic and profoundly tragic first-hand narrative of the campaign that in a space of six months claimed 1,000,000 lives and set in motion the chain of events that culminated in the fall of France's First Empire....Astutely edited by Christopher Summerville to add narrative momentum without sacrificing the power and drama of ...
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Keyword: General Junot

THE PENINSULAR JOURNAL, 1808-1817.

NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.