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      Military HistorySiege WarfareDuke of WellingtonPeninsular War
O texto que aqui se apresenta é o resultado de um intenso trabalho de pesquisa sobre o sistema de comunicações militares utilizado nas Linhas de Torres Vedras – o conjunto de fortificações de campo construído para defesa da cidade de... more
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      Military HistoryTelegraph (History of Technology)Telegraphic Codes and Message PracticeBritish naval history
Un dandy su misura Massimiliano Mocchia di Coggiola Naturale, ovvio e assolutamente banale è il considerare che l'uomo, dacché perse i peli che molto probabilmente gli ricoprivano il corpo per intero, si sia dato la pena di coprirsi per... more
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      History Of LondonDandyismDuke of WellingtonTailoring
An edition (with introduction, notes and illustrations) of the letters sent by the young 3rd Marquess of Downshire and the elderly Sir Philip Francis during their travels to and in Ireland between July and November 1810, mainly addressed... more
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      Duke of WellingtonDublinOmbersley CourtSandys of Ombersley
Jeremiah Fitzhenry, Wexford rebel and commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Irish Legion/Regiment, was captured by Spanish irregulars in 1811. Later it was discovered he had defected to Wellington. Accorded a free pardon by the British... more
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      Duke of WellingtonPeninsular WarIrish LegionIrish troops in the British army 1800-15
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      Military HistoryCultural HeritageLaw of RestitutionDuke of Wellington
Quatre ans de recherches palpitantes pour faire revivre Enghien depuis la fin de la période autrichienne jusqu'en 1815. Découvrons ensemble le duc Louis-Engelbert d'Arenberg, seigneur d'Enghien, aveugle à 20 ans, spolié de ses avoirs en... more
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      Strategy (Military Science)XVIII centuryNapoleonic WarsFrench Revolution and Napoleon
José I organizó una operación gubernamental de requisa de pinturas para un hipotético Museo de Pinturas, que utilizó políticamente. Regaló varios cuadros a generales franceses, y una colección de 50 pinturas de escuela española a... more
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      Modern HistoryEarly Modern HistorySpanish HistoryNapoleonic Wars
EDITED BY GARETH GLOVER 272pp., 21 contemporary illustrations of the battlefield in June-July 1815, 3 maps. 2020. Gareth continues to find more and more unpublished material. This is the third volume we have published in the Waterloo... more
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      British Military HistoryDuke of WellingtonWaterlooBattle of Waterloo
An account of the family which owned Ombersley Court, Worcestershire for four centuries, with illustrations
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      Duke of WellingtonWorcestershireSandysOmbersley Court
EDITED BY GARETH GLOVER 272pp., 19 contemporary illustrations of the battlefield in June-July 1815, 3 maps. 2020. Gareth continues to find more and more unpublished material. Alongside individual accounts, there is a wealth of other... more
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      British HistoryBritish Military HistoryDuke of WellingtonWaterloo
Os exércitos aliados, português e britânico, que participaram na designada Guerra Peninsular, entre 1809 e 1814, eram autónomos mas interdependentes, atingindo um nível de proficiência e trabalho em conjunto absolutamente ímpar até então.... more
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      Portugal (History)British Military HistoryHistoria MilitarDuke of Wellington
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      Military HistoryLondonCemeteriesDuke of Wellington
This gives the names of the officers of the Allied Artillery at Waterloo. Extract from the Smoothbore Ordnance Journal Volume 5 available from www.kentrotman.com
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      ArtilleryNapoleonic WarsFrench Revolution and NapoleonNapoleonic Europe
This article explores the service of a number of Black soldiers who served in British Army regiments at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. The article discusses the Battle of Waterloo and David Wilkie’s painting Chelsea Pensioners... more
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      European HistoryMilitary HistoryBritish HistoryBlack/African Diaspora
Volumes VII (07) to XIV (14) have been published by Ken Trotman 2019-2022. Many readers will know that I published a series of six volumes entitled The Waterloo Archive, between 2010 and 2014. When I commenced the series I had no idea... more
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      Napoleonic WarsFrench Revolution and NapoleonNapoleonic EuropeDuke of Wellington
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The staircase of the London residence of the painter (1828) Painted by Pieter Christoffel Wonder Centraal Museum Utrecht, The Netherlands Researcher: M. Oderwald ENGLISH SUMMARY On the side table is a hare with a white label. The painter... more
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      Napoleonic WarsDuke of WellingtonNAPOLEON BONAPARTEBattle of Waterloo
This second volume deals with the final preparations for war, including the arrival of the Duke of Wellington. The operations, particularly of the Second Division during the whirlwind campaign of Waterloo and the consequent march to Paris... more
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      Military HistoryNapoleonic WarsFrench Revolution and NapoleonNapoleonic Europe
Sir Henry Clinton was appointed second in command to the small British-Hanoverian army that served as a defence force for the newly liberated Netherlands under the command of the hereditary Prince of Orange in August 1814. He performed... more
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      Military HistoryBritish HistoryNineteenth Century British History and CultureNapoleonic Wars
This research presents the results of the archaeological campaign survey taken at Vimeiro during 2014. This was the first great victory for the future Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War. Battlefield archeology methodology, the... more
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      Military HistoryArchaeologyNapoleonic WarsBattlefield Archaeology
An account of the life of the characterful second son of Mary née Sandys and her husband the 2nd Marquess of Downshire: he served as one of Wellington's ADCs at Waterloo and as MP for co. Down before inheriting his mother’s title,... more
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      Duke of WellingtonPeninsular WarBattle of WaterlooWorcestershire
David Wright revisits the Tactical Deployment of the Royal Horse Artillery at Waterloo as described by Maj-Gen BP Hughes.

Extract from Smoothbore Ordnance Journal Volume 5 available from www.kentrotman.com
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      Napoleonic WarsFrench Revolution and NapoleonWellingtonDuke of Wellington
Historians need to understand the nature of historical agency and how animals relate to this central if contested historiographical concern. Focusing on the specific context of the Napoleonic Wars and in particular the Duke of Wellington... more
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      Philosophy of AgencyActor Network TheoryNapoleonic WarsHistory of Animals
For many generations British historians have decried the conduct of the Dutch troops at the battle of Waterloo as cowardly, an accusation which Dutch and Belgian historians, in their turn, have tried time and again to refute. This... more
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      HistoriographyNapoleonic WarsDuke of WellingtonCowardice
How Sir Arthur Wellesley was almost court martialed in the aftermath of his first victory against the French at Vimiero in Portugal.
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      Military HistoryBritish HistoryNapoleonic WarsMilitary and Politics
Este artículo estudia los dos eventos principales relacionados con el castillo de la ciudad de Burgos durante la Guerra de Independencia española (1808-1814), que el asedio por parte de lord Wellington en el otoño de 1812 y su voladura... more
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      War StudiesNapoleonic WarsContemporary History of SpainWellington
On 18th of June 1822, after three hundred years of operation of the famous Hyde Park in London, the first statue was set up there. It is a colossal bronze statue depicting the Homeric hero Achilles, naked but armed, according to an... more
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      Napoleonic WarsHistory of ArtAchillesDuke of Wellington
Contribution to the study of buttons of the modern period, at the time of King João VI, Portugal (1769-1826), taking into account patriotic, monarchic and political types of buttons. Being used in military uniforms, Court service uniforms... more
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      Portuguese HistoryBattlefield ArchaeologyEighteenth-Century British ArmyDuke of Wellington
An brief introduction to a much longer project based on my Honours thesis on the Battle Tactics of Alexander the Great. The original work concentrated on the combat capabilities of Alexander's units and the major battles. I'll be... more
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      Ancient HistoryMilitary HistoryStrategy (Military Science)Napoleonic Wars
By the spring of 1835 the Basque Country was the seat of a brutal and cruel conflict known as the First Carlist War or the Seven Years War (1833-1839). The Queen Regent announced, through a proclamation, that those who took up arms for... more
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      Basque StudiesPrisoners of WarHistory of NavarreBasque country
Paper delivered at Britons at War Conference, University of Northampton 2006
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      Irish humourDuke of WellingtonIrish troops in the British army 1800-15
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      Asperger's SyndromeDuke of Wellington
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      Napoleonic WarsNapoleonic EuropeDuke of WellingtonBattle of Waterloo
A high proportion of Wellington's troops, especially the infantry, during the during the Peninsular War (1808-14) and the Waterloo Campaign. Among his most active and effective battalions were specifically Irish including the celebrated... more
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      Duke of WellingtonPeninsular WarIrish troops in the British army 1800-15Irish Battalions
The diaries of British soldiers during the Peninsular War (1808-1814) provide some insight views about the use of coins in these troubled times (the following have been used: Gronow, Kincaid, Ross-Lewin, Rice, Simmojns, Verner, Lawrence... more
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      NumismaticsMonetary historyNapoleonic WarsNapoleonic Europe
Columbia Univ 3 May 2019 Symposium dedicated to the heritage of Russian Americans and the 250th Anniversary of the Order of St. George. V.K. McCarty, Moderator
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      Russian StudiesRussian HistoryRussian & Soviet ArtCatherine the Great
Sir Edward Pakenham, born in County Westmeath, Ireland, had a special relation with the 88th Foot, The Connaught Rangers. In particular, he commanded them as part of Wellington's Third Division at Salamanca in 1812.
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      Duke of WellingtonPeninsular WarIrish troops in the British army 1800-15Pakenham, Sir Edward
A personal account of the Battle of Waterloo Bicentennial Re-enactment event held in Belgium in June 2015. From Military History Monthly (September 2015) 60, pp. 72-73.
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      Eighteenth-Century British History and CultureNineteenth Century British History and CultureNapoleonic WarsFrench Revolution and Napoleon
The paper summarises the results of an archaeo-geophysical investigation, carried out by Souterrain Archaeological Services Ltd, on the Cerro del Castillo, Burgos, Spain. During September and October 1812 a French garrison at the... more
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      ArchaeologyHistorical ArchaeologyCultural HeritageArchaeological Science
Historians need to understand the nature of historical agency and how animals relate to this central if contested historiographical concern. Focusing on the specific context of the Napoleonic Wars and in particular the Duke of Wellington... more
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      HistoryPhilosophy of AgencyActor Network TheoryNapoleonic Wars
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      Celebrity CultureSpectacleNational IdentityFrench Revolution and Napoleon
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      War StudiesNapoleonic WarsNapoleonic EuropeWellington
On June 18, 1815, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by a coalition of British, German, Dutch-Belgian and Prussian forces led by the Duke of Wellington and Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher. As a result of this... more
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      Napoleonic WarsFrench Revolution and NapoleonNapoleonic EuropeNapoleon
The Duke of Wellington had an unmatched career as soldier, politician and statesman, and is lauded as the man who defeated Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo. This biography charts the life of a man whose reputation as the aloof 'Iron... more
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      Military HistoryBritish HistoryBiographyNapoleonic Europe
O livro trata da evolução da organização do exército português durante a guerra peninsular, apresentando um breve desenvolvimento desde 1640 até às reformas do fim do Séc. XVIII e, mais detalhadamente, a organização desde a campanha do... more
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      Portuguese HistoryNapoleonic WarsWellingtonDuke of Wellington