Ian Fletcher

Badajoz 1812 (eBook, ePUB)

Wellington's bloodiest siege
Illustrator: Younghusband, Bill

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Badajoz 1812 analyses the storming of Badajoz, which involved Wellington's infantry in some of the most savage hand-to hand fighting of the whole Peninsular War.

At appalling cost in a nightmare assault during the night of the 6 April 1812, Wellington's soldiers hacked their way over the bodies of their dead and wounded and through the huge medieval walls of the town. These were held with great tenacity, skill and courage by a resolute French and German garrison.

Having stormed the town the battle-crazed army went berserk and the horrors of the sacking which followed, as much as the sublime courage of the attackers, have passed into legend.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 98
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782001966
• Artikelnr.: 44626513

Autorenporträt

Ian Fletcher has established a reputation as a Napoleonic historian of the first rank, particularly on the British army in the Peninsular. He has been widely published and among his several titles for Osprey are Elite 52 Wellington's Foot Guards and Campaign 59 Vittoria 1813.