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  • GENERAL SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS, 1792–1801
    CAROLE DIVALL
    This biography of the Victorian era general and politician sheds light on Britain's military maneuverings against the First French Republic.   The French Revolutionary Wars of 1793-1801 were a critical turning point in the political and diplomatic history of Europe, and Sir Ralph Abercromby played a leading role in the British military campaigns that were part of them. In this ...

    $229.00

  • INSIDE THE REGIMENT
    CAROLE DIVALL
    In this companion volume to her pioneering study Redcoats Against Napoleon, Carole Divall tells the fascinating inside story of a typical infantry regiment during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Rather than focusing on the history of the 30th Regiment of the Line in action and on campaign, she explores its organization, traditions and hierarchy, its personnel, and the et...

    $129.00

  • REDCOATS AGAINST NAPOLEON
    CAROLE DIVALL
    Military histories of the struggle against the French armies of the Revolution and Napoleon often focus on the exploits of elite units and famous individuals, ignoring the essential contribution made by the ordinary soldiers the bulk of the British army. Carole Divall, in this graphic and painstakingly researched account, tells the story of one such hitherto ignored group of fi...

    $129.00

  • WELLINGTON AND THE VITORIA CAMPAIGN 1813
    CAROLE DIVALL
    Over two hundred years ago, on 21 June 1813, just southwest of Vitoria in northern Spain, the British, Portuguese and Spanish army commanded by the Duke of Wellington confronted the French army of Napoleon's brother Joseph. Hours later Wellington's forces won an overwhelming victory and, after six years of bitter occupation, the French were ousted from Iberia. This is the criti...

    $329.00

  • WELLINGTON'S WORST SCRAPE
    CAROLE DIVALL
    The disastrous retreat and near disintegration of Sir John Moores army on the road to Corunna in 1809 is traditionally regarded as the low point in the history of the British intervention in the Peninsular War. Yet under the Duke of Wellington, the British and their allies suffered defeats and retreats that tend to be overshadowed by the series of victories that eventually drov...

    $119.00

  • NAPOLEONIC LIVES
    CAROLE DIVALL
    Two hundred years ago the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars convulsed the whole of Europe. These were key events in the history of the continent, and for Britain, and they are a fascinating field for historical and family history research. More records than ever are available on the men who served in the British army during the wars and on their families - and Carole Divalls ne...

    $129.00