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Vignettes from many engagements of the Victorian Royal Navy For many, the great age of sail, typified by Nelson and his Royal Navy was the finest hour of British sea power. In its struggle with...

Voyage Of The Liberdade: From Brazil Through The Caribbean To The United States Of America, 1888 - 9781782829898Author: Joshua SlocumPublisher: Leonaur LtdPublication Date: May 19, 2021Number of...

In this, the second book published by Leonaur on the barely reported First Anglo-Burmese War, the author-a staff officer-who was an eyewitness to most of the major events, gives us an incisive...

A Union officer on campaign The author of this book served as Adjutant and Major in the 132nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and his primary objective in writing his account was to provide a...

A two volume masterpiece on ancient warfare Little needs to be said here about the fascinating era of the Roman Empire of the first century B. C., or about one of the most outstanding military...

A two volume masterpiece on ancient warfare Little needs to be said here about the fascinating era of the Roman Empire of the first century B. C., or about one of the most outstanding military...

Washington's campaigns in British service It is simple to view George Washington as the most famous and successful soldier of the American War of Independence or indeed as the first president of the...

The entire campaign from the pen of knowledge and experience There have been numerous histories of the Waterloo campaign since those memorable days in June,1815. Others had reported it before Gleig...

Eighteen accounts of the battles that ended the Napoleonic epoch The Battle of Waterloo is one of the most famous battles -if not the most famous battle-in history. Many books have been written about...

Wellington's contribution to the end of the Napoleonic Age Napoleon's bright star is fading and following his Russian defeat and further setbacks in Northern Europe his back is against the wall .The...

As Napoleon's French Army retreated, all hope that it could maintain a hold over the Iberian Peninsula began to fade. By September of 1813 the Allied Army commanded by the 'captain of the age'-the...

The final phase of the campaign in the Iberian Peninsula F. C. Beatson's famous trilogy on the genius of the Duke of Wellington as military commander as he led his 'old peninsular army' towards...

Author: Reginald George BurtonPublisher: Leonaur LtdPublication Date: Aug 12, 2020Number of Pages: 204 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1782829717ISBN-13: 9781782829713

A true account of the British navy in the Napoleonic Wars This is a book which will delight the many enthusiastic readers of accounts both true and fictional of the Royal Navy in the great days of...

Brutal conflict in the lava beds Students of the history of the American West-and the wars of the United States government against the indigenous American Indian tribes in particular-will be...

The memoirs of a remarkable Westerner For those fascinated by the history of the American West the lives of its singular characters-particularly in autobiography-never cease to enthral. These...

Two first accounts by early aviators This special Leonaur 'good value' edition contains two accounts of the early days of powered flight. The first book, written just before the outbreak of the...

The story of the 'last man standing' There are many military memoirs from hundreds of conflicts stretching back over the thousands of years that man has been engaged in armed conflict. For those who...

A remarkable experience of little reported events The Second Empire of France was, by the early 1860's in good health. France had acquitted itself well in the Crimea and in the war against Austria...

Napoleon's Irish troops and their battles, recounted by one of their officers Napoleon Bonaparte recruited to his causes the fighting men of nations which had suffered at the hands of the enemies of...

The Irish and European Brigades in Boer service in South Africa By virtue of its abiding and justified fame, the term 'Foreign Legion' is usually thought to mean the standing force in the service of...

'The sand of the desert is sodden red The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead' This is a fascinating memoir of the early career of a prominent British soldier of the late 19th and early 20th...

Author: AquilaPublisher: Leonaur LtdPublication Date: Aug 12, 2020Number of Pages: 184 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1782829113ISBN-13: 9781782829119

Up the Indus to Ghuznee and Kabul William Taylor, the author of this book, was a trooper in H.M 4th Light Dragoons in India as the campaign began to place Shah Shuja on the throne of Afghanistan. The...

The F. A. N. Ys-first anywhere! The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry was a female organisation formed in 1907. Its aim was not only to provide competent first aid on the battlefield put also to train its...

From Spain across the mountains into Southern France The author of this account, a young subaltern of the British First Foot Guards, joined Wellingtons Army in the closing stages of the war with...

The Guards in the last of the Queen Empress's wars These are the doings of the Guards Brigade as experienced by one of their number-a padre-through the Great Boer War. The inexorable slowness of the...

An outstanding first hand account and history of the first battles of the Great War The Great War had long been planned by Imperial Germany and its army stood ready to advance through Belgium and...

Two books in one volume-two first hand accounts by British subalterns in contrasting theatres of the Great War The first of the books in this double volume tells of the activities of a battery of the...

The Imperial Camel Corps had a short but eventful existence. Operating in the Western desert against the Senussi in Sinai, in the Palestine Campaign, and in Arabia, it played an important part in the...