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Featured battle : Schwyz

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 14 August 1799

The casualty figures given are suspect as they are derived from purely French sources. The attack was in part amphibious by eight grenadier companiesacross the Urnersee landing at Brunnen.

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General Cronje's Commandants.

General Cronje's Commandants.

A photograph entitled "Gen. Cronje's principle Commandants - surrendered to Lord Roberts, Feb 27th, S. Africa." showing a group of senior Boers reputedly taken by the British after Paardeberg. Currently I have no names to put to faces - anyone recognise anyone? Nice illustration of Boer dress of the time.

Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43

Featured review :

Into Battle with Napoleon 1812. The Journal of Jakob Walter

Jakob Walter. Edited & Annotated by Bob Carruthers
This is a re-presentation of the jounal which was first translated and published in America in 1938. Bob Carruthers has done a really good job in bringing this wonderful work up to date. His inspired selection and inclusion of the watercolours of Albrecht Adam, who witnessed many of the same events as Jakob Walter, makes the book even more enjoyable. That is if the brutal reporting of such a train of harrowing events can ever be enjoyed. The reader is left with an understanding of the life of a soldier in Russia in 1812 and thankfulness that Jakob kept a jounal. A must read.
Pen & Sword Military, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2013

Reviewed : 2013-04-30 19:15:12