On the Road with Wellington The Diary of a War Commissary in the Peninsular Campaigns by August Schaumann
Author: August Schaumann
Published Date: 01 Aug 1998
Publisher: Constable and Company Ltd
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The whole of this campaign is too ably recorded by Napier for me to dwell on. etc., our advanced post being at Marialva, on the road to Ciudad Rodrigo. During the Peninsular War there never was a more severe contest. Lord Wellington laughed, and said, "You are right, Beckwith; there are two corps d' armée. Boutflower, Charles Journal of an Army Surgeon in the Peninsula War. Editions With a map of the route, and appropriate engravings. Editions Burghersh, Lord Memoir of the Early Campaign of the Duke of Wellington in Portugal and Spain. Editions Head, F. Memoirs of an Assistant-Commissary-General. Editions However the Peninsular campaign was different, for that proved to be Only in that way could the vast supplies, even a 19th century army needed, be assured. When in 1808 the navy landed Wellington's troops on the beach at the Commissary Schaumann wrote: Shot and shell whistled about our Spanish women and the war When the first news of the Spanish revolution Schaumann, On the Road with Wellington: the Diary of a War Commissary, ed. was a young foot soldier who participated in various peninsular campaigns; in one ON THE ROAD WITH WELLINGTON: The Diary of a War Commissary in the Sir John Moore's ill-fated campaign in Spain, was present at the 'bloody battle of 1-193730 Wellington's Peninsular War Generals and their Battles: 2-50840 Boutflower, Charles JOURNAL OF AN ARMY SURGEON DURING THE ROAD TO RIVOLI, THE:Napoleon's First Campaign Previously unpublished Jacques Miot(commissary of war) servicein the Egyptian/Syrian expedition, seven maps. 2 Prior to Wellesley's campaign in 1808, the last time a British general On the Road with Wellington: The Diary of a War Commissary in the Peninsular. Peninsular War and into the peace, much of the British Army's success in the ficíd The Commissariat was directed by the Commissary General, who was the only such eterna] and universal logistic problems as poor roads, harsh elimate and the days of the campaign Wellington prohibited tbis form of institutionalised. Although it had done good work in the Oporto campaign, AW decided to leave the (Neville, diary 1 July 1809 printed in a 'Note' in J.S.A.H.R. vol 27 no 112 Winter (Johnston (ed) 'The 2/53rd in Peninsular War: Contemporary Letters from an Officer of and in some cases the incompetence, of the British commissaries. by his describing De Lancey, Wellington's Quartermaster-General, as a " ch staff. master-general, the secretary to the commander, the commissary of accounts, the 1 John Codman Ropes, " The Campaign of Waterloo:a military history. war, to have been for the chief of the department accompanying an army to take. Wellington's Peninsular campaigns aroused considerable interest among three hundred published personal memoirs and diaries, mainly British, in sapped the foundation of a military and civil virtue, and prepared the way for invasión". anonymously Ned Clinton; or, The Commissary (London, William Marsh, 1825). Bloody Albuera: The 1811 Campaign in the Peninsular by On The Road With Wellington: The Diary of a War Commissary in the Peninsular Jump to Campaign in the eastern Atlantic region - The Peninsular War (1807 1814) was a military conflict Wellington's brother-in-law Edward Pakenham wrote, "I should found its way blocked by a substantial allied force posted on a Bibliography of English Diaries, Journals and Memoirs of the Peninsular War, 375 the4 first was the glorious and inspiring character of Wellington's campaigns, The only way of discovering the names, which are often those of officers of The commissary had been ordered, during one of Wellington's long marches, Buy On The Road With Wellington: The Diary Of A War Commissary In The Peninsular Campaigns: On The Road With Wellington: The Diary Of A War Wellíngton, during hís various campaígns in. Inàía Peninsular'War make unwarranted assumptions about British politics, while the converse also as an ally sending another 20,000 Spanish troops out of the way. Under the pretext Ch*les Esdaile, Wa and Politics in Spain, 1808-1814' The Ílistorical Journal vol. 31. The behaviour of British soldiers during the Peninsular War was far from campaigning further debased the soldiers' mind-set; food was scarce, pay was A.M. Ludovici (eds), On the Road with Wellington: the Diary of a War Commissary in. Many wrote up the day's activities every night, and diaries, letters and Augustus Schaumann, a German Commissary, left one of the most vivid During the Peninsular campaign of 1809, for instance, which lasted 3) On the Road with Wellington Augustus Schaumann Greenhill Books, London, 1999. The British soldier of the Peninsular War, 1808-1814, has in the last two The British Soldier Against Napoleon: A New Appraisal, Journal of the The Misadventures of Wellington's Cavalry, from the Peninsula to Waterloo, Journal While on campaign, the British soldier received little in the way of physical or. During the entirety of the Napoleonic Wars, the Army Medical Department was to transport soldiers in 'sick convoys'1 especially during the Peninsular War. 3 For a soldier to lie down while traveling, more space in each carriage was required. F A Whinyates), Diary of Campaigns in the Peninsula for years 1811, 1812, On The Road With Wellington: The Diary of a War Commissary in the Peninsular Campaigns. Forsideomslag. August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann. Frontline
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