Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Old 95th
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Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Old 95th
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Author : Benjamin Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Old 95th written by Benjamin Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with Peninsular War, 1807-1814 categories.
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Old 95th With Anecdotes Of His Officers And His Comrads
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Author : Benjamin Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Old 95th With Anecdotes Of His Officers And His Comrads written by Benjamin Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with Peninsular War, 1807-1814 categories.
The Recollections Of Rifleman Harris
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Author : John Harris
language : en
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Release Date : 1985
The Recollections Of Rifleman Harris written by John Harris and has been published by Random House (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Peninsular War, 1807-1814 categories.
One of the most popular military books of all time receives a well-deserved new edition for readers young and old. The hero is an ordinary shepherd, a teenager from a small village, who joined the British army in 1802 and fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Rifleman Harris was a natural storyteller with a remarkable tale, and his harrowing escapes from capture and death are all told in this unique view of a soldier' s life.
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Old 95th
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Author : Benjamin Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Old 95th written by Benjamin Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with Peninsular War, 1807-1814 categories.
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Old 95th With Anecdotes Of His Officers And His Comrads Classic Reprint
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Author : Benjamin Harris
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02-07
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Old 95th With Anecdotes Of His Officers And His Comrads Classic Reprint written by Benjamin Harris and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-07 with Fiction categories.
Excerpt from Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95th) With Anecdotes of His Officers and His Comrads The following pages, describing the chee quered life of a private soldier, who served during the most glorious period of our military history, speak so plainly for them selves, as scarcely to need any introductory remarks from the editor, further than the assurance of his own sincere conviction of their truth. Such works as the narratives of Rifleman Harris, from the very nature of their details, afford occasionally more graphic sketches of the actual scenes of war, in its stern realities and concomitant circumstances, than the more stately and largely-grouped pictures of the Historian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Old 95th With Anecdotes Of His Officers And His Comrades Edited By H Curling
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Author : John HARRIS (Rifleman.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Old 95th With Anecdotes Of His Officers And His Comrades Edited By H Curling written by John HARRIS (Rifleman.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with categories.
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris
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Author : Benjamin Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris written by Benjamin Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris constitute one of the few sources which depict the Napoleonic Wars from the viewpoint of an infantry soldier. Benjamin Harris was born in Portsmouth, England around 1781. He saw his first military action at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1807. Victorious, he and his regiment sailed back to English soil upon captured Danish vessels, and spent time recuperating. The following year, Harris and his comrades in arms were sent to Portugal - there they met stiff resistance in a series of battles, taking losses at Roliça and Vimiero. Their expedition was finally trapped in northern Spain with the remaining army of John Moore, their state dire, depleted yet determined. Harris eventually managed to depart from Vigo in Galicia, his constitution severely impacted by harsh conditions. Nevertheless, in summer of 1809 he was again ready for a new expedition: the Walcheren Campaign on the Dutch coast. Conceived as a means of opening a new front in the ongoing War of the Fifth Coalition, this mission proved ill-fated: though the troops swiftly seized the Walcheren marshlands, feverish sickness rapidly spread through the ranks, killing thousands. Transcribed from Harris' dictation in the 1830s and published in 1848, this work remains a classic wartime memoir.
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris
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Author : Introduction by Sir Jo By Henry Curling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10-15
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris written by Introduction by Sir Jo By Henry Curling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-15 with categories.
Although there are many accounts of the Peninsular War by fighting men, this book is justly famed because it is a rarity: a memoir dictated by a ranker in Sir John Moore's army. At a time when many members of his class were illiterate, Benjamin Harris, a 'Dorsetshire sheep-boy' serving in the 95th Regiment of Foot from 1803 conveys the hard life of an old sweat fighting both the French and the Iberian climate in lively and vivid prose. Harris records the sicknesses and medicines suffered by ordinary soldiers; recounts the savage punishment of a fellow Rifleman, and the cut and thrust of military life from a distinctly worm's eye view, giving invaluable insights into the life of an ordinary soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. The book's editor, Henry Curling, persuaded Harris to recount his memoirs when he met him while Harris was working as a London cobbler in the 1830s. First published in 1848, this memoir remains one of the most valuable documents to have come down to us from the early Peninsular War.
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris
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Author : John Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris written by John Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Ed By H Curling
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Author : John Harris (rifleman.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848
Recollections Of Rifleman Harris Ed By H Curling written by John Harris (rifleman.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with categories.