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Burnham, Robert A listing of Memoirs written by British soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars. Burnham, Robert The winter of 1813 saw the British army stationed along the Portuguese - Spanish waiting for the coming of the next campaign. The 88th Infantry Regiment was an Irish Regiment known as the Connaught Rangers. The regimental officers celebrated their "founding" day on 17 March, which is Saint Patrick's Day; Saint Patrick being the patron saint of Ireland. Elmer, Bob In Waterloo - New Perspectives, David Hamilton-Williams writes about Napoléon's Lancers: "Able to impale a standing or mounted enemy by the force of his forward impetus, he could also make stabbing thrusts at men crouching or lying flat on the ground, something virtually impossible for sword- or sabre-armed cavalry." Was this really impossible? Howard, Alan J. A Letter from Lieutenant James Howard, 8 July 1815. Published in "The Empire, Toronto," 28 April 1888, as follows... Sewell, Max There are numerous memoires from the Napoleonic era. Many people who had close association with the Emperor seem to have kept notes or journals and later converted them to memoires, either by their own hand or with the help of a ghostwriter. |
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