A British Rifle Man: The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade during the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo - Tapa blanda

 
9781843423966: A British Rifle Man: The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade during the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo
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ISBN 10: 1843423960 ISBN 13: 9781843423966
Editorial: Naval and Military Press, 2009

Sinopsis

One of the best and most justly famous of the many memoirs of a serving British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. Born in Beverley in east Yorkshire, George Simmons began his military life in 1805 as Assistant Surgeon in the LIncoln Militia. He subsequently joined the 95th Rifles in order to help pay for his younger brothers’ education. Simmons served throughout the thick of the Peninsular War under Wellington, doing his duty as a Rifleman in six campaigns up to 1814, and seeing action at the sieges of Ciudad Roderigo and Badajoz and the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, and finally of Waterloo. He was thrice severely wounded, but survived to write these memoirs, which were basaed on the letters he sent home to his impecunious but doting parents.

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One of the best and most justly famous of the many memoirs of a serving British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. Born in Beverley in east Yorkshire, George Simmons began his military life in 1805 as Assistant Surgeon in the LIncoln Militia. He subsequently joined the 95th Rifles in order to help pay for his younger brothers’ education. Simmons served throughout the thick of the Peninsular War under Wellington, doing his duty as a Rifleman in six campaigns up to 1814, and seeing action at the sieges of Ciudad Roderigo and Badajoz and the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, and finally of Waterloo. He was thrice severely wounded, but survived to write these memoirs, which were basaed on the letters he sent home to his impecunious but doting parents.

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George Simmons joined the Lincoln Militia in 1805 as Assistant Surgeon and transferred in 1809 to the 95th Rifles. He retired in 1845 and died in Jersey in 1858.Simmons was a fine officer and this book is a classic.

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Editorial
Naval and Military Press
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1843423960
ISBN 13 
9781843423966
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
420
Editor
Verner Willoughby
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