ISBN: 9781770452473

Excerpt: ...and the rains, which had fallen in torrents, were evaporating in the morning and noon-day sun, were steaming heavenward and clothing the loftiest peaks with fantastic wreaths.… Mehr…

Excerpt: ...and the rains, which had fallen in torrents, were evaporating in the morning and noon-day sun, were steaming heavenward and clothing the loftiest peaks with fantastic wreaths. These words describe, with picturesque force, the most brilliant and desperate, and yet, perhaps, the least known chapter in the great drama of the Peninsular war: the furious combats waged between British and French in the gloomy valleys and on the mist-shrouded summits of the Western Pyrenees. The great campaign, which found its climax at Vittoria, lasted six weeks. In that brief period Wellington marched with 100,000 men 600 miles, passed six great rivers, gained one historic and decisive battle, invested two fortresses, and drove 120,000 veteran troops from Spain. There is no more brilliant chapter in military history; and, at its close, to quote Napier''s clarion-like sentences, the English general, emerging from the chaos of the Peninsular struggle, stood on the summit of the Pyrenees a recognised conqueror. From those lofty pinnacles the clangour of his trumpets pealed clear and loud, and the splendour of his genius appeared as a flaming beacon to warring nations. But the great barrier of the Pyrenees stretched across Wellington''s path, a tangle of mountains sixty miles in length; a wild table-land rough with crags, fierce with mountain torrents, shaggy with forests, a labyrinth of savage and snow-clad hills. On either flank a great fortress W. H. Fitchett, Books, History, Deeds That Won The Empire Books>History The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Battles;<

ISBN: 9781770452473

PREFACE THE tales here told are written, not to glorify war, but to nourish patriotism. They represent an effort to renew in popular memory tho groat traditions - of the Imperial race to … Mehr…

PREFACE THE tales here told are written, not to glorify war, but to nourish patriotism. They represent an effort to renew in popular memory tho groat traditions - of the Imperial race to which we belong. The history of the Empire of which are subject, -the story of the struggles and sufferings by which it has been built up-is thc best legacy which the past has bequeathed to us. But it is a treasure strangely neglected. The Statc makes primary education its anxious care, yet it does not make its PREFACE THE tales here told are written, not to glorify war, but to nourish patriotism. They represent an effort to renew in popular memory tho groat traditions - of the Imperial race to which we belong. The history of the Empire of which are subject, -the story of the struggles and sufferings by which it has been built up-is thc best legacy which the past has bequeathed to us. But it is a treasure strangely neglected. The Statc makes primary education its anxious care, yet it does not make its own history a vital part of that education. There is red danger that for the average youth the great names of British story may become meaningless sounds, that his imagination will take no colour from the rich and deep tints of history. And what a pallid, cold-blooded citizenship this must produce War belongs, no doubt, to an imperfect stage of society it has a side of pure brutality. But it is not all brutal. Books, History~~Military~~General, Deeds-That-Won-The-Empire~~William-Henry-Fitchett, 999999999, Deeds That Won The Empire, W. H. Fitchett, 1770452478, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781770452473

Excerpt: ...and the rains, which had fallen in torrents, were evaporating in the morning and noon-day sun, were steaming heavenward and clothing the loftiest peaks with fantastic wreaths.… Mehr…

Excerpt: ...and the rains, which had fallen in torrents, were evaporating in the morning and noon-day sun, were steaming heavenward and clothing the loftiest peaks with fantastic wreaths. These words describe, with picturesque force, the most brilliant and desperate, and yet, perhaps, the least known chapter in the great drama of the Peninsular war: the furious combats waged between British and French in the gloomy valleys and on the mist-shrouded summits of the Western Pyrenees. The great campaign, which found its climax at Vittoria, lasted six weeks. In that brief period Wellington marched with 100,000 men 600 miles, passed six great rivers, gained one historic and decisive battle, invested two fortresses, and drove 120,000 veteran troops from Spain. There is no more brilliant chapter in military history; and, at its close, to quote Napier''s clarion-like sentences, the English general, emerging from the chaos of the Peninsular struggle, stood on the summit of the Pyrenees a recognised conqueror. From those lofty pinnacles the clangour of his trumpets pealed clear and loud, and the splendour of his genius appeared as a flaming beacon to warring nations. But the great barrier of the Pyrenees stretched across Wellington''s path, a tangle of mountains sixty miles in length; a wild table-land rough with crags, fierce with mountain torrents, shaggy with forests, a labyrinth of savage and snow-clad hills. On either flank a great fortress W. H. Fitchett, Books, History, Deeds That Won The Empire Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781770452473

PREFACE THE tales here told are written, not to glorify war, but to nourish patriotism. They represent an effort to renew in popular memory tho groat traditions - of the Imperial race to … Mehr…

PREFACE THE tales here told are written, not to glorify war, but to nourish patriotism. They represent an effort to renew in popular memory tho groat traditions - of the Imperial race to which we belong. The history of the Empire of which are subject, -the story of the struggles and sufferings by which it has been built up-is thc best legacy which the past has bequeathed to us. But it is a treasure strangely neglected. The Statc makes primary education its anxious care, yet it does not make its own history a vital part of that education. There is red danger that for the average youth the great names of British story may become meaningless sounds, that his imagination will take no colour from the rich and deep tints of history. And what a pallid, cold-blooded citizenship this must produce War belongs, no doubt, to an imperfect stage of society it has a side of pure brutality. But it is not all brutal... Books Books ~~ History~~ Military ~~ General Deeds-That-Won-The-Empire~~William-Henry-Fitchett General Books LLC The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Battles;<