Peninsular War links
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aquascumA collection of Peninsular War links
First, a quote by the author of The Spanish Bride
„...a note for those of my readers who may wish to know which were my main works of reference.
Obviously, the most important authority for Harry’s and Juana Smith’s story is Harry Smith’s own Autobiography. Obviously again, it would have been impossible to have written a tale of the Peninsular War without studying Napier’s work, and Sir Charles Oman’s monumental History of the Peninsular War. I must acknowledge, as well, my indebtedness to Sir Charles Oman’s smaller work, Wellington’s Army; and I should like to thank both Sir Charles Oman, and Colonel Jourdain, for their kindness in searching for an obscure reference on my behalf.
I have not, to my knowledge, left any of the Diarists of the Light Division unread. Of them all, I found Kincaid and George Simmons the most useful for my particular purpose; but the details of the rank-and-file of the 95th Rifles were culled largely from Edward Costello’s Adventures of a Soldier. But Rifleman Harris was useful too; and so was Quartermaster Surtees, in spite of his unfortunate habit of covering all too many pages with moral reflections.
Outside the Light Division, Larpent’s Journals provided endless details. And there are grand bits to be found in Grattan’s Adventures with the Connaught Rangers; in Sir James McGrigor’s Autobiography; in Gleig’s Subaltern; in Gomm’s Recollections of a Staff-Officer; and in Tomkinson’s
Diary of a Cavalry Officer. There is a book of Peninsular Sketches, too, compiled by W. H. Maxwell; and all sorts of information to be gathered from the Lives of various commanders, not to mention the regimental histories.
And last, but certainly not least, there are the Dispatches, and the Supplementary Dispatches, of Wellington himself.
GEORGETTE HEYER"
Diaries, Journals, Memoires
Deutsches
Blücher, seine Zeit und sein Leben mehrere Bände in drei Büchern
Buch V bis VIII
ab IX Buch
Der königlich hannoversche Generalleutnant August Friedrich Freiherr v. d. Busche-Ippenburg , Bernhard Schwertfeger
Geschichte der Königlich deutschen Legion, 1803-1816 , Bernhard Schwertfeger
Kreuz ubd Querzüge von August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann
Memoiren aus dem spanischen freiheitskampfe 1808-1811; Ludwig von Grolmann--Albert Jean Michel Rocca--Moyle Sherer--Heinrich von Brandt--Henri Ducor--Don Juan Andrés Nieto Samaniego (1908)
Infantry
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by John Kincaid
Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (old 95th) with anecdotes of his officers and his comrads
the french and cavalry?
The Hussar General: The Life of Blucher, Man of Waterloo (Wordsworth Military Library) by Roger Parkinson
The Hussar by M. Gleig
The glorious hussar; the best of the exploits and adventures of the Brigadier Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hungarian hussar an illustrated history by József Zachar
The Melancholy Hussar and Other Stories (Collector's Library) by Thomas Hardy
In the Peninsula with a French Hussar
The Young Hussar: French Cavalryman of the Napoleonic Wars at Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau and Friedland by Baron De Marbot
In the Peninsula With a French Hussar: Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain (Napoleonic Library) by Albert Jean Michel De Rocca
HUSSAR IN WINTER - A BRITISH CAVALRY OFFICER IN THE RETREAT TO CORUNNA IN THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS by Alexander Gordon
THE YOUNG HUSSAR - VOLUME 1 - A FRENCH CAVALRYMAN OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AT MARENGO, AUSTERLITZ, JENA, EYLAU & FRIEDLAND by Baron De Marbot
Wessex tales;: That is to say: The three strangers, A tradition of eighteen hundred and four, The melancholy Hussar, The withered arm, Fellow-townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, The distracted preacher by Thomas Hardy aaber...?
xHussar Rocca - A French cavalry officer's experiences of the Napoleonic Wars and his views on the Peninsular Campaigns against the Spanish, British And Guerilla Armies by Albert Jean Michel De Rocca
v. I. Journal of a soldier of the Seventy-first Regiment (Highland Light Infantry) from 1806 to 1815.
The Spanish campaign of 1808, by Adam Neale.
Despatch after the Battle of Corunna, by Sir John Hope.
Reminiscences of a campaign in the Pyrenees and south of France, by John Malcolm.
v. 2. Memoirs of the war of the French in Spain, by M. de Rocca.
Narrative of the battles of Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo. Death of Napoleon Bonaparte
First, a quote by the author of The Spanish Bride
„...a note for those of my readers who may wish to know which were my main works of reference.
Obviously, the most important authority for Harry’s and Juana Smith’s story is Harry Smith’s own Autobiography. Obviously again, it would have been impossible to have written a tale of the Peninsular War without studying Napier’s work, and Sir Charles Oman’s monumental History of the Peninsular War. I must acknowledge, as well, my indebtedness to Sir Charles Oman’s smaller work, Wellington’s Army; and I should like to thank both Sir Charles Oman, and Colonel Jourdain, for their kindness in searching for an obscure reference on my behalf.
I have not, to my knowledge, left any of the Diarists of the Light Division unread. Of them all, I found Kincaid and George Simmons the most useful for my particular purpose; but the details of the rank-and-file of the 95th Rifles were culled largely from Edward Costello’s Adventures of a Soldier. But Rifleman Harris was useful too; and so was Quartermaster Surtees, in spite of his unfortunate habit of covering all too many pages with moral reflections.
Outside the Light Division, Larpent’s Journals provided endless details. And there are grand bits to be found in Grattan’s Adventures with the Connaught Rangers; in Sir James McGrigor’s Autobiography; in Gleig’s Subaltern; in Gomm’s Recollections of a Staff-Officer; and in Tomkinson’s
Diary of a Cavalry Officer. There is a book of Peninsular Sketches, too, compiled by W. H. Maxwell; and all sorts of information to be gathered from the Lives of various commanders, not to mention the regimental histories.
And last, but certainly not least, there are the Dispatches, and the Supplementary Dispatches, of Wellington himself.
GEORGETTE HEYER"
Diaries, Journals, Memoires
Deutsches
Blücher, seine Zeit und sein Leben mehrere Bände in drei Büchern
Buch V bis VIII
ab IX Buch
Der königlich hannoversche Generalleutnant August Friedrich Freiherr v. d. Busche-Ippenburg , Bernhard Schwertfeger
Geschichte der Königlich deutschen Legion, 1803-1816 , Bernhard Schwertfeger
Kreuz ubd Querzüge von August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann
Memoiren aus dem spanischen freiheitskampfe 1808-1811; Ludwig von Grolmann--Albert Jean Michel Rocca--Moyle Sherer--Heinrich von Brandt--Henri Ducor--Don Juan Andrés Nieto Samaniego (1908)
Infantry
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by John Kincaid
Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (old 95th) with anecdotes of his officers and his comrads
the french and cavalry?
The Hussar General: The Life of Blucher, Man of Waterloo (Wordsworth Military Library) by Roger Parkinson
The Hussar by M. Gleig
The glorious hussar; the best of the exploits and adventures of the Brigadier Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hungarian hussar an illustrated history by József Zachar
The Melancholy Hussar and Other Stories (Collector's Library) by Thomas Hardy
In the Peninsula with a French Hussar
The Young Hussar: French Cavalryman of the Napoleonic Wars at Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau and Friedland by Baron De Marbot
In the Peninsula With a French Hussar: Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain (Napoleonic Library) by Albert Jean Michel De Rocca
HUSSAR IN WINTER - A BRITISH CAVALRY OFFICER IN THE RETREAT TO CORUNNA IN THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS by Alexander Gordon
THE YOUNG HUSSAR - VOLUME 1 - A FRENCH CAVALRYMAN OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AT MARENGO, AUSTERLITZ, JENA, EYLAU & FRIEDLAND by Baron De Marbot
Wessex tales;: That is to say: The three strangers, A tradition of eighteen hundred and four, The melancholy Hussar, The withered arm, Fellow-townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, The distracted preacher by Thomas Hardy aaber...?
xHussar Rocca - A French cavalry officer's experiences of the Napoleonic Wars and his views on the Peninsular Campaigns against the Spanish, British And Guerilla Armies by Albert Jean Michel De Rocca
v. I. Journal of a soldier of the Seventy-first Regiment (Highland Light Infantry) from 1806 to 1815.
The Spanish campaign of 1808, by Adam Neale.
Despatch after the Battle of Corunna, by Sir John Hope.
Reminiscences of a campaign in the Pyrenees and south of France, by John Malcolm.
v. 2. Memoirs of the war of the French in Spain, by M. de Rocca.
Narrative of the battles of Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo. Death of Napoleon Bonaparte
