Napoleon vs. Great Britain – History of the Conflict
Campaigns, Memoirs, and British Memory from the Peninsular War to WaterlooBy S. E. Winbolt, Charles Cornwallis Chesney, Joseph Moyle Sherer, William Lawrence, William Surtees, William Henry Fitchett, George Simmons, John Kincaid, Donat Henchy O'Brien, Robert Southey
Length106h 49m
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Napoleon vs. Great Britain – History of the Conflict assembles a capacious record of the Napoleonic era, tracing the struggle between imperial ambition and British military, naval, and political resistance. Its materials range from campaign narrative and eyewitness recollection to retrospective history, memoir, and literary reflection. Accounts of the Peninsular campaigns, battlefield endurance, command, and the wider European crisis give the volume both documentary immediacy and interpretive breadth, revealing war as lived experience as well as national history. The contributors bring together soldiers, military historians, commentators, and a major Romantic-era literary voice whose perspectives span the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their varied positions—participants in British campaigns, chroniclers of imperial conflict, and later shapers of public memory—situate the collection within the formation of Britain's Napoleonic mythos. Read together, these voices complicate triumphalist narratives by attending to discipline, hardship, strategy, and the human costs of war, while illuminating the cultural forces that made Napoleon's challenge so enduring. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking more than a linear account of battles and treaties. It offers a sustained dialogue among distinct genres, generations, and forms of authority, inviting comparison between memory and history, observation and interpretation. Students of military history, Romantic-period culture, and Anglo-European relations will find a richly instructive introduction to a conflict that reshaped modern Europe.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length106 hrs 49 mins
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Publish dateDec 4, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Military Memoirs of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington (Annotated)
2Napoleon vs. Great Britain – History of the Conflict
3England and Napoleon 1801-1815 (S. E. Winbolt)
4INTRODUCTION
5THE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC (1801). Source.—Thomas Campbell: Historical Lyrics and Ballads
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6VERSES BY CANNING AGAINST ADDINGTON (1803). Source.—Stanhope’s Life of Pitt, 1862.
7THE YOUNGER PITT (1806). Source.—Sir W. Scott.
8Mr. Perceval’s Answer.
9ODE WRITTEN DURING THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH BUONAPARTE (1814). Source.—Robert Southey: Poems.
10Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 1)
11Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 2)
12Battle of Waterloo (Charles Cornwallis Chesney) (pt. 3)
13Military Memoirs of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington (Joseph Moyle Sherer)
14Volume 1 (pt. 1)
15Volume 1 (pt. 2)
16Volume 1 (pt. 3)
17Volume 1 (pt. 4)
18Volume 1 (pt. 5)
19Volume 2 (pt. 1)
20Volume 2 (pt. 2)
21Volume 2 (pt. 3)
22Volume 2 (pt. 4)
23Volume 2 (pt. 5)
24The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence (William Lawrence) (pt. 1)
25The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence (William Lawrence) (pt. 2)
26The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence (William Lawrence) (pt. 3)
27Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade (William Surtees) (pt. 1)
28Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade (William Surtees) (pt. 2)
29Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade (William Surtees) (pt. 3)
30Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade (William Surtees) (pt. 4)
31Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade (William Surtees) (pt. 5)
32Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade (William Surtees) (pt. 6)
33Wellington's Men Some Soldier Autobiographies (William Henry Fitchett)
34WELLINGTON'S MEN THE SOLDIER IN LITERATURE
35I.—FROM TORRES VEDRAS TO WATERLOO (pt. 1)
36I.—FROM TORRES VEDRAS TO WATERLOO (pt. 2)
37II.—ONE OF CRAUFURD'S VETERANS (pt. 1)
38II.—ONE OF CRAUFURD'S VETERANS (pt. 2)
39III.—A ROYAL HIGHLANDER
40IV.—WITH THE GUNS AT WATERLOO (pt. 1)
41IV.—WITH THE GUNS AT WATERLOO (pt. 2)
42A British Rifle Man (George Simmons)
43INTRODUCTION
44COMMENCEMENT OF THE PENINSULAR WAR CAMPAIGN OF 1808
45CHAPTER II
46CAMPAIGN OF 1810
47CHAPTER IV
48CHAPTER V
49CAMPAIGN OF 1811
50CHAPTER VII
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