Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book, The

This massively detailed and outstanding reference work provides comprehensive coverage of every action in every campaign of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Europe and the Middle East. With accurate data on more than two thousand individual battles, clashes, sieges, raids, capitulations and naval engagements, listed in chronological order, there has never been so much reference material on this dramatic period of history in just one volume.

For every action accurate records are provided as to which units, from corps to company level, were there, fired shots and took casualties. Overall casualties are assessed and the number of cannon, colours and standards lost are also given. The author has commented on significant actions to place them in context and to highlight key events and important consequences.

The great campaigns are fully covered, with extensive data on the other events of the period as well, such as the French civil wars in the Vendée, the French campaign in the Eastern Pyrenees in 1794, the Russo-Turkish wars, the British expedition to eastern Spain in 1812 and Murat's campaign in Italy in 1815

Making use of original source material unavailable to the general reader, from archives, libraries and private collections in Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Austria, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Poland. The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book is a monumental contribution to knowledge of the conflict.