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Feeding Wellington's Army from Burgos to Waterloo Gareth Glover

Feeding Wellington's Army from Burgos to Waterloo By Gareth Glover

Feeding Wellington's Army from Burgos to Waterloo by Gareth Glover


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Feeding Wellington's Army from Burgos to Waterloo: The Lively Journal of Assistant Commissary General Tupper Carey - Volume II by Gareth Glover

Transcribed for the first time from Commissary General Tupper Carey's handwritten journals, this is the second of two volumes which cover the lively career of a Commissary who served throughout the Peninsular war and Waterloo campaign. Written with vivid detail, these journals offer a truly unique window into the life of a Commissary and the campaigns in which he served. Although a civilian and greatly discouraged from putting himself in mortal danger, Tupper was often to be found watching the fighting from some nearby vantage point and often describes the actions he witnessed, particularly where it affected his own charge, whether a battalion, a brigade or even later an entire division. Interspersed with these primary roles, he was often seconded to form supply bases in the rear of the army, or to hastily remove or destroy stores when threatened by enemy advances. He also talks freely about fellow officers, and being a private journal written simply for the eyes of his immediate family, he is not shy in giving his honest opinions of both his subordinates or indeed his superiors. This volume covers the period from the launch of Wellingtons great advance into Spain in 1813 until the end of the war in 1814, the Waterloo campaign of 1815 and the Army of Occupation in France from 1815 to 1818, when Tupper became arguably the most important Commissary working for the Duke of Wellington.

About Gareth Glover

Gareth Glover is a former Royal Navy officer and military historian who has made a special study of the Napoleonic Wars for the last thirty years. In addition to writing many articles on aspects of the subject in magazines and journals, his books include Wellingtons Voice, Wellingtons Lieutenant Napoleons Gaoler, From Corunna to Waterloo, Eyewitness to the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, An Eloquent Soldier, six volumes of The Waterloo Archive, Waterloo: Myth and Reality and The Forgotten War Against Napoleon: Conflict in the Mediterranean 1793-1815\. He is also the director of Campaigns & Culture Ltd, a new concept in touring see www.campaignsandculture.com.

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GOR013793013
9781399041461
1399041460
Feeding Wellington's Army from Burgos to Waterloo: The Lively Journal of Assistant Commissary General Tupper Carey - Volume II by Gareth Glover
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
2024-06-07
296
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