British Campaigns in the South Atlantic 1805-1807 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Campaigns in the South Atlantic 1805-1807 write by J.D. Grainger. This book was released on 2015-03-13. British Campaigns in the South Atlantic 1805-1807 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1805 and 1807 the British mounted several expeditions into the South Atlantic aimed at weakening Napoleon's Spanish and Dutch allies. The targets were the Dutch colony on South Africa's Cape of Good Hope, which potentially threatened British shipping routes to India, and the Spanish colonies in the Rio de la Plata basin (now parts of Argentina and Uruguay). ??In 1805 an army of around 6,000 men was dispatched for the Cape under the highly-respected General David Baird. They were escorted and assisted by a naval squadron under Home Riggs Popham. The Cape surrendered in January 1806. ?Popham then persuaded Baird to lend him troops for an attack on Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires was taken in July but the paltry British force (around 2,400 men) was then besieged and forced to surrender in August. Popham was later court martialled for exceeding his orders.??In Feb 1807 Montevideo was taken by a new (officially sanctioned) British force of 6,000 men. Whitelocke, the British Commander then attempted to retake Buenos Aires (not least to free British prisoners from the first attempt) but was defeated by unexpectedly fierce resistance stiffened by armed creoles and slaves. After heavy losses he signed an armistice, surrendering Montevideo and withdrawing all his forces. He too was court-martialled. ??One of the major themes of this new account is the strong Scottish connection Baird and Popham were both Scots, and the 71st Highlanders made up the main force in the Cape and Popham's adventure. Another is the unlooked for consequences of these actions. The arrival of Scottish Calvinist ministers in the Cape influenced the eventual development of apartheid, while successful resistance to the British, with little help from Spain, shaped and accelerated the independence movement in South America.
Redcoats to Tommies
Redcoats to Tommies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Redcoats to Tommies write by Kevin Linch. This book was released on 2021. Redcoats to Tommies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of the lifecycle of soldiers, including enlistment, experiences of military life, the soldier's place in society and in politics, and military identity, memory and representation.
The Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Napoleonic Wars write by Alexander Mikaberidze. This book was released on 2020. The Napoleonic Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, arguably the first world war.
Storm and Sack
Storm and Sack - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Storm and Sack write by Gavin Daly. This book was released on 2022-10-06. Storm and Sack available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Peninsular War, Wellington's army stormed and sacked three French-held Spanish towns: Ciudad Rodrigo (1812), Badajoz (1812) and San Sebastian (1813). Storm and Sack is the first major study of British soldiers' violence and restraint towards enemy combatants and civilians in the siege warfare of the Napoleonic era. Using soldiers' letters, diaries and memoirs, Gavin Daly compares and contrasts military practices and attitudes across British sieges spanning three continents, from the Peninsular War in Spain to India and South America. He focuses on siege rituals and laws of war, and uncovering the cultural and emotional history of the storm and sack of towns. This book challenges conventional understandings of the place and nature of sieges in the Napoleonic Wars. It encourages a rethinking of the notorious reputations of the British sacks of this period and their place within the long-term history of customary laws of war and siege violence. Daly reveals a multifaceted story not only of rage, enmity, plunder and atrocity but also of mercy, honour, humanity and moral outrage.
The British Army, 1783–1815
The British Army, 1783–1815 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Army, 1783–1815 write by Kevin Linch. This book was released on 2024-04-30. The British Army, 1783–1815 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The British army between 1783 and 1815 – the army that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars – has received severe criticism and sometimes exaggerated praise from contemporaries and historians alike, and a balanced and perceptive reassessment of it as an institution and a fighting force is overdue. That is why this carefully considered new study by Kevin Linch is of such value. He brings together fresh perspectives on the army in one of its most tumultuous – and famous – eras, exploring the global range of its deployment, the varieties of soldiering it had to undertake, its close ties to the political and social situation of the time, and its complex relationship with British society and culture. In the face of huge demands on its manpower and direct military threats to the British Isles and territories across the globe, the army had to adapt. As Kevin Linch demonstrates, some changes were significant while others were, in the end, minor or temporary. In the process he challenges the ‘Road to Waterloo’ narrative of the army’s steady progress from the nadir of the 1780s and early 1790s, to its strong performances throughout the Peninsular War and its triumph at the Battle of Waterloo. His reassessment shows an army that was just good enough to cope with the demanding campaigns it undertook.
