Author: Parkinson, Roger,
Title: MOORE OF CORUNNA.
Description: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, St. Albans, 1976, 1st edn., viii, 245pp, half tone frontis portrait, maps and half tone ills. in text, coloured endpapers, beige/brown textured paper covered boards with purple title panel lettered and bordered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the army career of Sir John Moore from Ensign to Lieut.-General, seeing service in the American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War, Irish rebellion of 1798 and the Peninsular war where he lost his life at Corunna in 1809, also remembered as an innovator of the training of light infantry, slightly cocked, lightly bumped at tips, edges tanned and faintly foxed, dustwrapper: rubbed with several short nicks at edges, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: military history moore america france corsica sicily sweden holland egypt peninsular war corunna


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