Adventures of an Aide-de-Camp, Or, A Campaign in Calabria, Volume 1, 2, 3
By James Grant
Length22h 17m
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Excerpt: "On the evening of the last day of June 1806, the transports which had brought our troops from Sicily anchored off the Italian coast, in the Bay of St. Eufemio, a little to the southward of a town of that name. The British forces consisted of H. M. 27th, 58th, 78th, and 81st Regiments of the Line, the Provisional Light Infantry and Grenadier Battalions, the Corsican Rangers, Royal Sicilian Volunteers, and the Regiment of Sir Louis de Watteville, &c., the whole being commanded by Major-General Sir John Stuart, to whose personal staff I had the honour to be attached. This small body of troops, which mustered in all only 4,795 rank and file, was destined by our ministry to support the Neapolitans, who in many places had taken up arms against the usurper, Joseph Buonaparte, and to assist in expelling from Italy the soldiers of his brother. Ferdinand, King of Naples, after being an abject vassal of Napoleon, had allowed a body of British and Russian soldiers to land on his territories without resistance. This expedition failed; he was deserted by the celebrated Cardinal Ruffo, who became a Buonapartist; and as the French emperor wanted a crown for his brother Joseph, he proclaimed that "the Neapolitan dynasty had ceased to reign"—that the race of Parma were no longer kings in Lower Italy—and in January 1806 his legions crossed the frontiers. The "lazzaroni king" fled instantly to Palermo; his spirited queen, Carolina (sister of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette), soon followed him; and the usurper, Joseph, after meeting with little or no resistance, was, in February, crowned king of Naples and Sicily, in the church of Sancto Januario, where Cardinal Ruffo of Scylla, performed solemn mass on the occasion. All Naples and its territories submitted to him, save the brave mountaineers of the Calabrias, who remained continually in arms, and with whom we were destined to co-operate."
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GenreBiography and Memoir, History
Length22 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CONTENTS.
26CHAPTER I.
2PREFACE.
27CHAPTER II.
3CHAPTER I.
28CHAPTER III.
4CHAPTER II.
29CHAPTER IV.
5CHAPTER III.
30CHAPTER V.
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6CHAPTER IV.
31CHAPTER VI.
7CHAPTER V.
32CHAPTER VII.
8CHAPTER VI.
33CHAPTER VIII.
9CHAPTER VII.
34CHAPTER IX.
10CHAPTER VIII.
35CHAPTER X.
11CHAPTER IX.
36CHAPTER XI.
12CHAPTER X.
37CHAPTER XII.
13CHAPTER XI.
38CHAPTER XIII.
14CHAPTER XII.
39CHAPTER XIV.
15CHAPTER XIII.
40CHAPTER XV.
16CHAPTER XIV.
41CHAPTER XVI.
17CHAPTER XV.
42CHAPTER XVII.
18CHAPTER XVI.
43CHAPTER XVIII.
19CHAPTER XVII.
44CHAPTER XIX.
20CHAPTER XVIII.
45CHAPTER XX.
21CHAPTER XIX.
46CHAPTER XXI.
22CHAPTER XX.
47CHAPTER XXII.
23CHAPTER XXI.
48CHAPTER XXIII.
24Volume 2
49Volume 3
25CONTENTS.
50CONTENTS.
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