Author: HAYTHORNTHWAITE, PHILIP J
Title: DIE HARD! - Dramatic actions from the Napoleontic wars.
Description: London, Arms & Armour Press, 1998. First paperback edition. Sewed / Card covers, 23cmx15,5cm, Very good copy /Cover in color, Designed by David Gibbons. 'Die hard, 57th, dy hard! - exhortation by Lieutenant-Colonel William Inglis to his battalion at the Battle of Albuera - 16 May 1811. Contents: 1). 'Into perils nobly courted' - Villers-en-Cauchies - 24 April 1794. 2). Victory from defeat - Marengo - 14 June 1800. 3). 'The snow shall be their windind-sheet' - Eylau - 6-7 February 1807. 4). To the last ditch - The sieges of Saragossa - June 1808 to February 1809. 5). The bridgehead - Aspern-Essling - 21-22 May 1809. 6). Hearts of oak - Cerro del Puerco, Barbarossa - 5 March 1811. 7). Dying hard - Albuera - 16 May 1811. 8). Forlorn hope - The breaches at Badajoz - 6 April 1812. 9). On the banks of the Styx - The Berezina - 27-28 November 1812. 10). 'With the utmost gallantry' - Hougoumont 18 June 1815. 12 plans and 35 illustrations. With postscript, notes, bibliography and index. 256 pag.

Keywords: byng cadiz barbaro bajassa villers-en-cauchies aspern-essling lejeune marbot oudinot soult marshal claude victor wellington


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