Memoirs of Captain George Carleton, an English Officer
Author : George Carleton
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 1811
Category : Great Britain
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Author : George Carleton
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 1811
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Daniel Defoe
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,44 MB
Release : 1808
Category : Europe
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Author : George Carleton
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 1809
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Author : Daniel Defoe
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Great Britain
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Author : George Carleton
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Page : 463 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 1808
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Written By Himself
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845748388
First published in 1808 under the editorship of Sir Walter Scott, at the height of another war with France, this is a vivid account of one of the campaigns in the great War of the Spanish Succession that convulsed Europe at the beginning of the 18th century, and saw the great triumphs of the Duke of Marlborough. The author, Captain George Carleton, was serving under another commander - Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough - whose achievements in Spain and Flanders have been somewhat overshadowed by Marlborough's victories. The book describes how Carleton was one of the handful of men who took the great city of Barcelona and subsequently expelled the Duke of Anjou's French army, 25,000 strong, from Spain with a force of only half that number. Sadly, home politics negated Peterborough's victory, as the great writer Jonathan Swift explained in his famous pamphlet 'The Conduct of the Allies': " The only General who, by a course of conduct and fortune almost miraculous, had nearly put us into possession of the kingdom of Spain, was left wholly unsupported, exposed to the envy of his rivals, disappointed by the caprices of a young inexperienced Prince (Charles of Austria, the Allied candidate for the Spanish throne) under the guidance of a rapacious German ministry, and (was) at last called home in discontent." This book is an unusual and eye-opening account of a victorious campaign whose fruits were thrown away.
Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Page : 698 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 1913
Category : English literature
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Author : South Kensington Museum. Dyce collection
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Alexander Dyce
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385252881
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 1809
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