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Featured battle : Valladolid
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 12 July 1808
General Cuesta's amazingly inept handling of his newly formed Army of Castile placed them in a single rank with a river at their backs and only one bridge for retreat. After a very brief action the Spanish were routed and the French took the city of Valladolid.
Featured image :
Rimington's Tigers. Scouts at rest!
An image from Underwood and Underwood entitled "Remington Scouts enjoying lunch in a Boer home wrecked by Kaffirs, Yaasfontein, S.A." and gives a good impression of this renouned and somewhat irregular unit of Irregulars. It would be interesting to speculate precisely who it really was who ransacked the house in which they are taking their lunch. The scouts, known as 'Tigers' because of their distinctive wild cat fur around their hats, had a reputation for laying waste to Boer villages through which they passed. Please note, Clash of Steel
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
1812 Napoleon in Moscow
Paul Britten Austin
It is difficult to evaluate this book which has a confusing conflict between style and content. As a style the author has adopted the appalling affectation of the use of the present tense to describe the past. This in parts makes gaining a clear understanding more difficult than it needs to be. The content is well researched and appropriately selected giving real insights into the French in Moscow. The real quality of the book is that we get to see the big event from many personal perspectives. In the introduction the author apologizes, and so he should, for his 'syntactic and grammatical deviations' for these in part make difficult reading of what otherwise would be a very good book.
Frontline Books, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2012
Reviewed : 2013-02-09 00:00:00
