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By Andrew Bamford

Sir Thomas Graham’s Netherlands crusade of 1813–1814 has produced an incredibly wealthy crop of memoirs and letters. This compelling new publication brings jointly six of the shorter debts, a number of of them by no means sooner than obvious in print, to assist shed new mild at the triumphs and mess ups of those forgotten operations. blending formal studies with full of life own narratives, and modern letters and diaries with later reflections, this feature covers the entire significant activities of the crusade and the authors diversity from considered one of Graham’s senior employees to an NCO in a single of his infantry battalions. as well as explanatory notes all through, designated appendices unravel many of the controversies coming up from those and different eyewitness bills, supporting to extend our figuring out of those little-known yet vital operations. rigorously researched and expertly compiled by means of historian Andrew Bamford, this can be a invaluable and soaking up new resource, for you to be of significant curiosity to any scholar of the period.

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