Wellington"s Little-known General
Цена 12.56 - 17.85 USD
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780755216376
Брэнд
Bright Pen
Автор
Michael John Lyon
Издатель
Книга по Требованию
Страниц
198
Год выпуска
2014
The book gives an account of the extraordinary life of Sir James Lyon who was born posthumously on board a transport ship returning to England after the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775). The greater part of it deals with his participation as an infantry officer in several of the campaigns of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Egypt (1801), the Peninsula (1808-11), North Germany (1813-14), and Waterloo (1815). Most of the remainder looks at his involvement in the post-war political and social unrest in England around the time of the Peterloo Massacre (1819), and in the West Indies immediately prior to the passing of the Abolition of Slavery Act (1833).