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The Atlas of the Battles and Campaigns of the American Revolution includes over 120 full color maps showing troop dispositions and topography for both the major engagements of the conflict as well as many lesser-known but critical battles and skirmishes.

British regimental wives marched with the troops and endured all the hardships of campaigning from hunger and childbirth to sickness and capture. Often undisciplined and sometimes drunk, they were expert plunderers. They washed, cooked and helped their men, and in tending the wounded they were often heroines of the battlefield.

The Wild Geese, Irish soldiers exiled in France at the end of the seventeenth century, gained fame fighting for France on the battlefields of Europe, India and America in the eighteenth century.

The period 1792-1815 was a pivotal moment in world history, but many accounts lack detail about Ottoman military developments. The book examines changes and development of the Ottoman army from the Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt until the Serbian uprisings in 1804-13 and 1815.

The book gives a detailed and vivid description of the build-up of the Netherlands Army during and after the War of Liberation in 1813-1815, based on biographies of officers and men who served in that army, and much previously unpublished contemporary material.

General Levin von Bennigsen's memoirs offer unique insights into the epic confrontation between the French and Russians in Poland during the winter of 1806-1807, including the terrible carnage at Eylau and the disastrous battle at Friedland that paved the way for Napoleon's supremacy in Europe.

Fit to Command brings the battalion and regimental commanders of the British army in the period 1793-1815 into sharp focus and enables the reader to see their progression - how field officers of Wellington's victorious Peninsula army were dramatically better equipped for their roles than their earlier counterparts in Flanders in 1793.

For most of the war, until the fall of Lord North's ministry in 1782, Lord Sandwich managed the navy as First Lord of the Admiralty. The demands on the resources of the Royal Navy, at home and abroad, meant that he faced an unending struggle to balance its priorities.

This book reflects on the historiographical contributions of world-renowned military historian Christopher Duffy. In 16 essays, the contributors continue Christopher's legacy of making first-rate historical research on eighteenth-century militaries accessible to the public.

A deeply human study of the 47th Regiment of Foot's difficult, but successful, transition from peacetime to wartime.

A study of the British use of selected soldiers formed into temporary battalions, rather than established regiments, as the central tactical element on the battlefield in the 1775-1783 war.

Using new information from British, Portuguese and French sources, this book updates the story of the Lines of Torres Vedras defences and their role in the Peninsular War.

The definitive and illustrated guide to French light infantry through the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon's First Empire, this study details the development of the chasseurs and voltigeurs.

This book, based on extensive new research, examines the military forces of the British Army which effectively faced the threat of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars on Ireland.

The story of the mercenary army which gave the future Duke of Wellington the hardest fight of his life at the Battle of Assaye in 1803.

A complete and thoroughly researched book about 'The Secret Expedition'; the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland 1799 and the Franco-Batavian defence. Including numerous first-hand accounts.

Scharnhorst: The Formative Years is the first comprehensive study of Gerhard Scharnhorst. It focuses on his service in Hanover, corrects the inaccuracies of previous German editions, and presents many unpublished discoveries.

This is the story of how, in 1808, the Royal Navy used its dominance in the Baltic to rescue the Spanish Army of the Marques de La Romana.

This book provides details of the recruitment, organisation, equipment, logistics, and command of the Army of King George II from 1727 to 1760.

A detailed account of the Battle of Villamuriel, the largest action during Wellington's retreat from Burgos in 1812, based on extensive use of international archives.

The proceedings of the 2019 From Reason to Revolution conference, addressing the British soldier 1721-1815.

The Napoleonic Services of John Burgoyne RE who was present at many battles and sieges in the Peninsular War.