Research Catalog

Title

Fix bayonets! : a Royal Welch Fusilier at war, 1796-1815 / Donald E. Graves.

Author

Graves, Donald E.

Publication

Toronto : Robin Brass Studio, c2006.

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Details

Description

xxi, 488 p. : ill., facsim., maps, ports.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Pearson, Thomas, 1781-1847
• Great Britain. Army. Royal Welch Fusiliers > Biography
• Great Britain. Army > Officers > Biography
• Grande-Bretagne. Army. Royal Welch Fusiliers > Biographies
• Grande-Bretagne. Army > Officiers > Biographies
• 1800-1815
• Albuera, Battle of, Albuera, Spain, 1811
• Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Personal narratives, British
• La Albuera, Bataille de, 1811
• Guerres napoléoniennes, 1800-1815 > Récits personnels britanniques
• United States > History > War of 1812 > Personal narratives, British
• Canada > Histoire > 1812, Guerre de > Récits personnels britanniques

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Personal narratives – British

Note

• "Being the Life and Times of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Pearson, CB, KCH, 1781-1847. Foreword by Major-General J.P Riley, DSO; maps and diagrams by Christopher Johnson".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-480) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Learning the trade, 1796-1801. Dreadful times are approaching -- The parson's lad, King George's Army and the Great War with France, 1781-1797 -- The French have read a lesson today they will not soon forget? -- England, Holland and Egypt, 1798-1801 -- God bless the King and damn the French -- Gibraltar, Britain and Denmark, 1801-1807 -- Fair complexions lit up by soft blue eyes -- Nova Scotia, Martinique and New Brunswick, 1808-1810 -- pt. 2. Practising the trade, 1810-1811 -- Johnny Newcomes -- Portugal and Spain, October 1810 -- May 1811 -- Oh, what a day was that -- Albuera, 16 May 1811 -- Fall in Fusileers! -- Albuera, 16 May 1811 -- The Royal Welch Fusiliers the very thing -- Spain and Portugal, May-November 1811 -- pt. 3. Master of the trade, 1812-1815 -- As you were! As you were? -- Portugal, Britain and North America, October 1811 -- August 1813 -- The bravest men I have ever seen -- On the St. Lawrence, July 1813 -- April 1814 -- A fair trial of nerve and discipline -- The bloody summer of 1814: Oswego and Chippawa -- Full blooded eaters of the pumpkin -- The bloody summer of 1814: Lundy's Lane and Fort Erie -- Epilogue: "the Sodger's wealth is honour -- The later years, 1815-1847.

ISBN

• 9781896941271 (bound)
• 1896941273 (bound)

LCCN

^^2007360564

OCLC

• 70839286
• SCSB-12523241

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library