Napoleonic Britain: A Guide to Fortresses, Statues and Memorials of the French Wars 1792-1815

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David Buttery

Napoleonic Britain

A Guide to Fortresses, Statues and Memorials of the French Wars 1792-1815

David Buttery

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English

Pen & Sword Military
04 July 2023

Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial

This is the first guide to sites in the British Isles connected to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars to be published. Stately homes, memorials, statues, dockyards, fortifications, tombs, churches, hospitals and museums associated with the wars are all described in vivid detail. There are hundreds of such sites with many of them being closely linked to military heroes like Wellington and Nelson and the forces they commanded. Highpoints include not only St Paul's Cathedral, Nelson's Column and Apsley House in London but more obscure monuments and buildings outside the capital like Edinburgh Castle, HMS Victory in Portsmouth Dockyard, the Western Heights Fortifications in Dover, Fishguard invasion site in Wales, Castlebar battlefield in Ireland and Martello towers along the English coastline. Many minor sites of great interest are listed too. David Buttery's guidebook gives the reader a fascinating insight into this long period of conflict between the British and the French and into the buildings, statues and memorials that commemorate it.

AUTHOR: David Buttery has established a reputation as a leading historian of nineteenth-century British military history and he has made a particular study of the Napoleonic Wars. He has worked as a tour guide for several companies and has led tours of the Waterloo campaign battlefields. In addition to writing many articles in journals and magazines, his publications include Napoleon's Paris, Waterloo Battlefield Guide, Messenger of Death: Captain Nolan and the Charge of the Light Brigade and a three-volume history of the Peninsular War.

70 colour, 30 b/w illustrations

By: David Buttery
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 172mm,
ISBN: 9781399084376
ISBN 10: 1399084372
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 04 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Buttery has established a reputation as a leading historian of nineteenth-century British military history and he has made a particular study of the Napoleonic Wars. He has worked as a tour guide for several companies and has led tours of the Waterloo campaign battlefields. In addition to writing many articles in journals and magazines, his publications include Napoleon's Paris, Waterloo Battlefield Guide, Messenger of Death: Captain Nolan and the Charge of the Light Brigade and a three-volume history of the Peninsular War.