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Auteur: Rene Chartrand
paperbackEngels248 blz.9781911628606
1e druk
15-6-2019
paperbackEngels316 blz.9781913336448
1e druk
5-7-2021
paperbackEngels312 blz.9781913118853
1e druk
1-10-2020
paperbackEngels278 blz.9781912866540
1e druk
13-12-2019
PaperbackEngels9781841763026
14-12-2001
Canada was the first Commonwealth ally to come to Britain's aid in 1940. This is an illustrated study of their uniforms, weapons and equipment, with many battlefield photographs, and eight colour plates by famous Canadian military illustrator Ron Volstad. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841763095
19-9-2001
An account of the Battle of Vimeiro in 1808. The battle was part of a string of victories over the French for the future Duke of Wellington. It liberated Portugal from French occupation and secured the vital base from which to prosecute the war in Spain. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841763101
16-11-2001
Wellington was faced by 80,000 men of the Army of Portugal under Marshal Massena. At Bussaco on 27 September the British/Portuguese force offered battle. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841763118
15-2-2002
Faced by superior French forces, Wellington yet again out-thought and out-manoeuvred his opponents at Fuentes de Onoro. This book features the full story of the construction of the lines of Torres Vedras, the most massive undertakings of military engineering in the whole of the Napoleonic wars. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841763248
17-4-2002
Almost from the first arrival of French and English colonists in eastern North America in the 16th century, settlers were forced to raise militias to protect themselves from the Indians. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841764832
15-1-2003
This work concludes the three-part mini-series that describes the history of the local forces raised in the 13 original colonies of eastern North America. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841766676
19-3-2004
This book covers the army that fought the Texans at the Alamo and San Jacinto, and was poised to fight the US in the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. It was far from negligible and on the eve of the latter war a correspondent from the London Times judged it superior to the US Army. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781855329812
15-11-2000
The Portuguese constituted a third to a half of the troops under Wellington's command during his campaigns in the Peninsular and were considered first rate troops. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781846031861
6-6-2007
Canada's 600,000 troops - of whom more than 66,000 died and nearly 150,000 were wounded - represented an extraordinary contribution to the British Empire's struggle. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841765686
22-8-2003
A discussion of the famous commanders of the American War of Independence, including the story behind such controversial figures as Benedict Arnold. American, British, French and Spanish leaders are all covered in detail, and there are anecdotes and quotations to bring these figures to life. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841766836
24-9-2004
This book examines the first military encounters of the Seven Years' War. When the French built forts along the Ohio River valley to support their claims to the area, a clash with the British became inevitable, and when in 1753 they refused to evacuate the region, British thoughts turned to eviction. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841764580
19-2-2003
Napoleon, as a young artilleryman, was trained with the Gribeauval system, created to standardize the French field artillery. This work deals with 4-, 8- and 12-pdr guns, light 1-pdr guns and later innovations such as the 6-pdr gun, which were used by Napoleon in Italy, Germany and Austria. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781841764603
12-6-2003
This volume is the second half of the story of French artillery during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. It covers the howitzers, mortars and large siege and garrison guns, placing a special emphasis on their role, technical significance and operational use. Meer