Wellington's Right Hand
Rowland, Viscount Hill
General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill of Almarez was imaginative, brave - and perhaps more surprisingly for the period in which he lived an d fought - compassionate towards those under his command. He was a man who frequently led from the front in some of the deadliest battles ofthe Napoleonic Wars. Hill was given his own 'detached' corps and fought his way through Spain, Portugal and France, winning battles against the odds - such at St Pierre, where he defeated the redoubtable Maréchal Soult when outnumbered two to one. When ministers at home asked that Hill be allowed to leave the Peninsula and lead an army elsewhere, Wellington dismisse…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7524-9299-5
- EAN: 9780752492995
- Produktnummer: 14984121
- Verlag: The History Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'136 KB
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