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Corunna

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Author : Christopher Hibbert
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2017-07-11

Corunna written by Christopher Hibbert and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-11 with History categories.

‘Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried.’ —from ‘The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna’ by Charles Wolfe One of the best remembered poems in the English language has served to keep alive the memory of Sir John Moore and of his burial at Corunna on 17 January, 1809. The story of the battle which he fought on the previous day and of the short campaign and horrifying retreat which preceded it is, however, not so well known. The Battle of Corunna saved a British army from annihilation and resulted in the tragic death of one of England’s finest generals. Setting out from Lisbon in the autumn of 1808, Sir John Moore had marched his army into Spain against Napoleon and by a daring manoeuvre had thrown it across the line of French communications. But, having thus drawn off Napoleon’s army from Madrid, Moore found himself so outnumbered and with no hope of assistance from the ineffectual Spanish armies, that he decided to withdraw to the coast. After a 250-mile retreat across the mountains of Galicia under appalling weather conditions, with inadequate food supplies and the French hard on his heels, he eventually reached the port of Corunna. Here he turned and drew up his depleted forces to face Marshal Soult’s massive army; and, though mortally wounded in the ensuing battle, he lived long enough to learn that the French had been checked and that his own army would be able to embark in safety. In Corunna extensive use is made of the many eyewitness accounts which survive in the form of official despatches, histories, diaries, memoirs and letters. With the aid of these, Christopher Hibbert not only shows a remarkable understanding of John Moore and his fellow officers, of their conflicting characters and views, but also provides a horrifying picture of the hardships of this brief and bitter campaign.

With Moore At Corunna

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Author : G. A. HENTY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897

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Corunna 1809

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Author : Brian L. Kieran
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011

Corunna 1809 written by Brian L. Kieran and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.

Dr. Brian Kieran has shed more light on Sir John Moore and his heroic retreat during 1808 -1809 through the Galicia Mountains in the middle of Winter to Corunna in Spain. The tragic events of the retreat are graphically described leading to the sombre death of Sir John Moore at the moment of Victory. The one British Army of the time escaped through their evacuation from Corunna from Napoleon and ultimately his Marshals. Moore's skilful campaign caused Napoleon to return to Paris as he could not bear the thought of being defeated or outrun by the More's military skill. Moore's death occurred at the height of the battle at Corunna and he was aware of the victory before he died a painful death. More's death gave rise to the composition of a number of poem's yet the most famous was written by an Irishman; in England it became a children's Memorial to a Great Man. "But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him." Moore could have been given no greater honour at that time when Soult ordered the firing of a salute of Cannon.

With Moore At Corunna

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Author : G.A. Henty
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2020-07-28

With Moore At Corunna written by G.A. Henty and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with Fiction categories.

Reproduction of the original: With Moore At Corunna by G.A. Henty

With Moore At Corunna

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Author : George Alfred Henty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897

With Moore At Corunna written by George Alfred Henty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Great Britain categories.

With Moore At Corunna

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Author : G. A. Henty
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-06-01

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Historical novel, set in Portugal, during the Peninsular War, in which the British battled the armies of Napoleon.

Corunna 1809

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Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-02-20

Corunna 1809 written by Philip Haythornthwaite and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-20 with History categories.

The retreat to Corunna is one of the epic campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Late in 1808 Sir John Moore found himself virtually alone with his small British army deep inside Spain. The armies of his Spanish allies had been overwhelmed and he faced a victorious French force under the Emperor Napoleon. He had little option but to order a retreat to the port of Corunna. This became the most arduous of trials with armies traversing mountainous terrain over appalling roads in the depths of winter. Somehow Moore held his outnumbered, exhausted men together as they struggled to reach safety. Finally at Corunna Moore's army turned to face its tormentors.

With Moore At Corunna

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Author : G a Henty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-30

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Complete and unabridged paperback edition. First published in 1898.

Corunna 1809

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Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-02-20

Arthur Corunna S Story

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Author : Fremantle Press
language : en
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Release Date : 2014-12-01

Arthur Corunna S Story written by Fremantle Press and has been published by Fremantle Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Sally Morgan’s My Place is an Australian classic. Since first publication in 1987, My Place has sold more than half a million copies in Australia, been translated and read all over the world, and been reprinted dozens of times. Sally’s rich, zesty and moving work is perhaps the best-loved biography of Aboriginal Australia ever written. My Place for Young Readers is an abridged edition, especially adapted for younger readers, that retains all the charm and power of the original. Arthur Corunna’s Story is about Sally’s grandfather.

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