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Wellington's Rifles - Six Year's to Waterloo with England's Legendary Sharpshooters

By: Walker & Company

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Walker & Company)

Last Stocked on 11/14/2012

Product Info

Title
Wellington's Rifles - Six Year's to Waterloo with England's Legendary Sharpshooters
Publisher
Category
Author
Mark Urban
Publish Year
2004
Pages
351
Dimensions
6x9x1.25"
NKG Part #
2147473791
Type
Hardcover

Description

The 95th Rifles was one of history's great fighting units, and Mark Urban brings them and the Napoleonic War gloriously to life in this unique chronicle. Focusing especially on six soldiers in the first battalion, Urban tells the Rifles’ story from May 25, 1809, when they shipped out to join Wellington’s army in Spain, through the battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Drawing on diaries, letters, and other personal accounts, Urban has fashioned a vivid narrative that allows readers to feel the thrill and horror of famous battles, the hardship of the march across Europe, the bravery and camaraderie of a nineteenthcentury Band of Brothers whose innovative tactics created the modern notion of infantryman.