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Featured battle : Glogau
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 06 November 1806 - 02 December 1806
An early move in the Eylau-Friedland campaign the fortress was invested by Napoleon's Bavarian Division. On the 25 Novemeber they handed over to the Württember Division [the Bavarians becoming the right flank guard to the Grande Armée's move eastwards]. The fortress surrendered with the officers released on parole and the men becoming prisoners of war.
Featured image :
Royal Sussex Regiment Monument, Brighton.
An unusual monument to the men of the 35th Royal Sussex Rgt. Who died as a result of their action in the Egyptian campaigns of the 1880's. The monument is of pink marble and stands outside the elaborate Royal Pavilion commissioned by George IV in the early 1800's. The inscription reads : "ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS, N.C.OFFICERS AND MEN 1st Bn ROYAL SUSSEX REGt. TO THE MEMORY OF THEIR COMRADES WHO WERE KILLED IN ACTION OR WHO DIED OF WOUNDS OR OF DISEASE CONTRACTED DURING THE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN 1882 AND NILE RIVER EXPEDITION 1884-85"
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
The Global Seven Years War
Daniel Baugh
This book is no lightweight with 665 pages of really 'meaty' text and a further 81 pages of supporting notes and index. The content covers, in depth, the full nine years of the Seven Years War. The military, naval and the political aspects with their necessary interactions are well covered. The character, motivation and machinations of the leading figures are described as are the resultant effects. The book is without illustrations but has seventeen supporting maps. The narrative flows easily and logically and pages once started are difficult to put down because always there is something interesting coming next. The vast majority of the text is free from the author's opinions and comments which are reserved for the long final chapter.
A war of four continents and seven oceans in one excellent readable book.
Routledge, 2014
Reviewed : 2017-08-24 07:11:00
