Conquer or Die! Wellington's Veterans and the Liberation of the New World

Name: Conquer or Die! Wellington's Veterans and the Liberation of the New World
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ISBN: 9781849081832

ISBN-10: 1849081832

ISBN-13: 9781849081832

Edition: 2010

Authors: Ben Hughes

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In the aftermath of Waterloo, over 6,000 British volunteers sailed across the Atlantic to aid Simon Bolivar in his liberation of Gran Columbia from her oppressors in Madrid. The expeditions were plagued with disaster from the start, one ship sank shortly

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 8/24/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 392
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.17" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Maps and Battleplans


Dramatis Personae


Preface


Prologue



Rambling Brothers O' the Blade 1815-1818



'Flags, Banners, Glory and Riches!'



'Proceed to Sea, be the Wind and Weather as they Might'



'A Few Bands of Itinerant Freebooters'



Into the Heart of Darkness 1818-1819



'The Vast Howling Wilderness'



'Captain Grant's Prize Clarionet'



A Nameless Grave



'A Lock of...Auburn Hair'



'General Wilson for Ever!'



Mr Dewey's Fatal Premonition



The Second Wave



'Prisoner to a Horde of Barbarians'



The Black Rifles' Baptism of Fire



Fiasco at Portobelo



The Tipping Point 1819-1820



The Paramo of Pisba



The Return of General English



The Battle of Vargas



'A Place Called Boyacï¿½'



The Siege of Agua Santa



Santafï¿½ de Bogotï¿½



The Third Wave



Disaster at Rio de la Hacha



'I am Going the Way of all Flesh, Sir!'



'A Dreadful Service' - The British Legion in Maturï¿½n



The Black Rifles Move North



The Albion March South



A 'Series of Surreptitious Assaults'



Mutiny!



The Eve of Saint Simï¿½n



The Fall of Santa Marta



Victory! 1821



The Armistice of Santa Ana and the Battle of Genoy



Captive!



The Battle of Carabobo


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index