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Featured battle : Arzobispo [El Puente]
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 08 August 1809
This brilliant raid was lead by Marshal Soult using a division of infantry and a brigade of cavalry. The Spaniards were in possession of 17 French guns which they had captured at Talavera. Soult crossed the Tagus and retook the guns plus another 16 Spanish guns and 400 horses.
Featured image :
Battle of Lansdown Hill, Waller's first position
A view of the hill itself from the track (now a road) in the vale between Lansdown Hill and Freezing Hill where the Royalists initially formed up. The woods to the right and left of the crest of the hill were there at the time, and Waller formed a defensive position between them. It;s not difficult to see why Hopton initially chose not to assult it.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
Gurkha Odyssey
Peter Duffell
An odyssey is a long eventful journey and an appropriate title for this book. The story is of the author’s journey with and in the Gurkha ‘family’. The manner of its telling, in the main, is like a dinner party conversation with an excellent raconteur. In the telling not only do we see the Gurkhas but we see the author. Peter Duffell is a fighting man both with his men in the jungles of Borneo and for his men in the corridors of Whitehall. The period covered is from the early 1960s to 2018 with some coverage of early history. The unit focused on is the 2nd Gurkhas and therefore sadly does not include the Gurkha contribution to the Falklands war [7th Gurkhas].
The book is well illustrated with a dozen pages of colour plates and some super Ken Howard drawings. Nine maps, all with scales, help in the telling of the journey. There is more to Gurkha history than told here and this book is a taster which will leave you wanting to find out more.
Gurkha Odyssey is a most enjoyable cover to cover read which we highly recommend.
Pen & Sword Military, 2019
Reviewed : 2019-11-07 13:56:22