Rifles - Mark Urban [196]
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Muir, Rory, Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon 1807–1815, New Haven and London, 1996
– Salamanca 1812, New Haven and London, 2001 Nafziger, George, Imperial Bayonets: Tactics of the Napoleonic Battery, Battalion and Brigade as Found in Contemporary Regulations, London, 1995
Napier, General W., Passages in the Early Military Life, ed. George Napier, London 1884.
Napier, Sir William, History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, 1807–14, 6 Vols., London, 1851
– The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, 4 Vols., London, 1857
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– Wellington’s Army 1809–1814, London, 1913
Rottenburg, Colonel, Regulations for the Exercise of Riflemen and Light Infantry and Instructions for Their Conduct in the Field, London, 1803 (a translated and slightly edited version of the first regulations produced five years earlier by the Commanding Officer of the new 5th/60th; Rottenburg’s name does not appear, although he was undoubtedly the author)
Pelet, Jean Jacques, The French Campaign in Portugal 1810-11, ed. Donald Horward, Minneapolis, 1973
Simmons, George, A British Rifleman, Greenhill edition, 1986.
Six, Georges, Dictionnaire Biographique des Generaux et Amiraux Français de la Revolution et de l’Empire, 1792–1814, Paris, 1934
Sontag, Colonel, Hints for Non-Commissioned Officer on Actual Service, London, 1803
Stevens, Crosbie, ‘The Rifle Brigade 1800–1870: A Study of Social, Cultural and Religious Activity’, PhD thesis, Sheffield University, 1996
Stewart, Sir William, The Cumloden Papers, privately printed, 1871
Surtees, William, Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade, 1973 reprint of 1833 edition
Torrens, Major General Sir Henry, Field Exercise and Evolutions of the Army, London, 1824
Trefcon, Colonel, Carnet de Campagne du Colonel Trefcon, Paris, 1914
Var, Le Commandant, ed., Campagnes du Capitaine Marcel, Paris, 1913
Vassais, Capitaine J. G., Historique du 69ème Regiment d’Infanterie (1672–1912), Paris, 1913
Verner, Willoughby, History and Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade, 1912–19.
Weddeburne, Sergeant William, Observations on the Exercise of Riflemen, Norwich, 1804
Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, Dispatches of the Duke of Wellington, London, 1852
Wyld, James, Maps and Plans Showing the Principal Movements, Battles, and Sieges …, London, 1840
Rules and Regulations for the Formation, Field Exercise and Movement of His Majesty’s Forces, London, 1792
General Orders, Spain and Portugal, London, 1811–14
The Standing Orders of the Light Division, Dublin, 1844
The Pakenham Letters 1800 to 1815, privately printed, 1914
Index
Abrantes 1, 2
Agueda river 1, 2, 3
Albuera 1, 2
Aldea Velha 1
Alemada 1, 2, 3
Alemtejo province 1, 2
Allen, Private Humphrey 1
Almaraz 1, 2
Almeida fortress 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Almond, Private Joseph 1
fights against the Spaniards in South
America 1
loses corporal’s stripes 1, 2, 3
field days at Campo Maior 1
unable to regain his stripes 1
worn out 1
considers desertion 1
deserts 1
inducted into the French Army 1
Ciudad Rodrigo 1
escapes from Rodrigo 1, 2
captured and executed after a trial 1, 2, 3
Alps 1
Alten, Major General von
new commander of the Light Division 1
programme of marches, firing practice
and field days 1
row over firewood 1
efforts to catch the French at Yanzi 1
on the Rhune 1
Waterloo 1, 2
American War of Independence 1, 2
Arbuthnott, Lieutenant Duncan 1, 2
Arcangues 1, 2
Ariñez 1, 2, 3
Army of Portugal 1, 2
Arruda 1, 2, 3, 4
Atalaya 1, 2, 3
Atlantic Ocean 1
Austerlitz, battle of 1, 2
Austrians: locked in battle with Napoleon 1
Badajoz fortress 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Wellington resolves to take it quickly 1
firing on the trenches 1
compared with Rodrigo 1
sniping 1
Forlorn Hope 1, 2,