A Soldier of the Seventy-First: The Journal of a Soldier of the Highland Light Infantry, 1806-1815
by Christopher Hibbert
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First published in 1819, this memoir covers Whitelocke's disastrous South American adventure in 1806, the Penisular War, the Walcheren expedition and the Battle of Waterloo - where he narrowly escaped death. A cannonball struck the ground in front of him, knocked him head-over-heels and shattered his musket.Tags
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One of the best Peninsular War memoirs. The author had been "educated above his station" by doting parents, and ran away from home after a failed attempt to be an actor. He enlisted on impulse and spent his enlistment term in South America and the peninsular. The memoirs were published shortly afterwards, anonymously. Full of detail from the perspective of a private.
B2, Squadron/Signal Pub, printed by Clarke, Doble & Brendon Ltd, Argentina, the Peninsula and Southern France, 19thC
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Christopher Hibbert: March 5, 1924 -- December 21, 2008 Historian Christopher Hibbert was born as Arthur Raymond Hibbert in Enderby, England in 1924. He dropped out of Oriel College to join the Army. He served with the London Irish Rifles and won the Military Cross. He earned a degree in history in 1948. Before becoming a full-time nonfiction show more writer, he worked as a real estate agent and a television critic for Truth magazine. He wrote more than 60 books throughout his lifetime including The Road to Tyburn (1957), Il Duce: The Life of Benito Mussolini(1962), George IV: Prince of Wales, 1762-1811 (1972), and George IV: Regent and King, 1812-1830 (1973). Hibbert was awarded the Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962 for The Destruction of Lord Raglan. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographical Society, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Literature by the University of Leicester. He died from bronchial pneumonia on December 21, 2008 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- A Soldier of the Seventy-First: The Journal of a Soldier of the Highland Light Infantry, 1806-1815
- Original title
- Journal of a Soldier of the Seventy-First or Glasgow Regiment, Highland Light Infantry, from 1806-1815
- Original publication date
- 1819
- People/Characters
- Napoleon Bonaparte; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Important places
- Spain
- Important events
- Napoleonic Wars; Peninsular War
- Original language
- English UK
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 940.2 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe Europe: Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, Napolean
- LCC
- DC232 .S65 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania France – Andorra – Monaco History of France Modern, 1515- Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1789-1815
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- 45
- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.80)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 4
