Language: en
Pages: 323
Pages: 323
This volume provides a comprehensive view of the social, political and military aspects of the volunteer movement of the French Wars: the volunteer infantry, yeomanry cavalry and the armed associations in England, Scotland and Wales from 1794 to 1814 and in some cases beyond.
Language: en
Pages: 323
Pages: 323
Books about The British Volunteer Movement, 1794-1814
Language: en
Pages: 218
Pages: 218
Britain was France's most implacable enemy during the Napoleonic Wars yet was able to resist the need for conscription to fill the ranks of its army and sustain Wellington's campaigns in Portugal and Spain. This new study explains how the men were found to replenish Wellington's army, and the consequences
Language: en
Pages: 402
Pages: 402
This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.
Language: en
Pages: 338
Pages: 338
This is the first book-length examination of the involvement of British volunteers in the Spanish forces during the Napoleonic Wars.