Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo

Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo

by Nick Lipscombe
Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo

Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo

by Nick Lipscombe

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Overview

Dismissive, conservative and aloof, Wellington treated his artillery with disdain during the Napoleonic Wars – despite their growing influence on the field of battle. Wellington's Guns exposes, for the very first time, the often stormy relationship between Wellington and his artillery, how the reluctance to modernize the British artillery corps threatened to derail the British push for victory and how Wellington's views on the command and appointment structure within the artillery opened up damaging rifts between him and his men. At a time when artillery was undergoing revolutionary changes – from the use of mountain guns during the Pyrenees campaign in the Peninsular, the innovative execution of 'danger-close' missions to clear the woods of Hougomont at Waterloo, to the introduction of creeping barrages and Congreve's rockets – Wellington seemed to remain distrustful of a force that played a significant role in shaping tactics and changing the course of the war. Using extensive research and first-hand accounts, Colonel Nick Lipscombe reveals that despite Wellington's brilliance as a field commander, his abrupt and uncompromising leadership style, particularly towards his artillery commanders, shaped the Napoleonic Wars, and how despite this, the ever-evolving technology and tactics ensured that the extensive use of artillery became one of the hallmarks of a modern army.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472804693
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 09/20/2013
Series: General Military
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 472
File size: 16 MB
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About the Author

Colonel Nick Lipscombe was born in 1958 in Angers, France. He has a degree in business studies and an MSc in defence studies. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1980. During his thirty years in the British Army he has seen considerable operational service with the British and American armies, as well as with NATO and the UN. He was awarded the US Bronze Star in 2006. A keen interest in military history followed his academic studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst concentrating on the Napoleonic era and the Peninsular War in particular. He is Chairman of Peninsular War 200, the UK official organisation for the commemoration of the bicentenary of the Peninsular War and a key member of the Waterloo 200 committee. He speaks German and Spanish, currently works in Portugal and lives in Spain with his wife Janny and their three daughters.

Table of Contents

List of images 7

List of maps 9

Acknowledgements 10

Foreword David Richards 12

Preface 14

Introduction 17

Chapter 1 Robe's Frustrations 32

Chapter 2 Harding's Preparations 47

Chapter 3 Cookson's Powder Keg 59

Chapter 4 Howorth's Arrival 78

Chapter 5 Wellington's Cold Shoulder 92

Chapter 6 MacLeod's Labours 109

Chapter 7 Shrapnel's Duck Shot 120

Chapter 8 Ross's Agitation 138

Chapter 9 Duncan's Determination 150

Chapter 10 Ramsay's Breakout 160

Chapter 11 Cleeves's Escape 178

Chapter 12 Dickson, the Die is Cast 193

Chapter 13 Borthwick, the Walking Target 208

Chapter 14 Douglas's Close Support 227

Chapter 15 Dyneley's Capture and Wellingtons Failure 243

Chapter 16 Holcombe's Opportunity 261

Chapter 17 Ramsay's Arrest 271

Chapter 18 Williamson's Fury 291

Chapter 19 Curtain of Fire 301

Chapter 20 Waller's Remonstrance 320

Chapter 21 Frazer's Swank and Lane's Rockets 332

Chapter 22 Wood's Commitment 352

Chapter 23 Wellington's Guns and Napoleon's Daughters 367

Chapter 24 Wellington's Gunners 389

Appendices

Appendix 1 List of the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Artillery officers, by Troop and Battalion/Company, who served in the Peninsula 1808-1814 401

Appendix 2 List of Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Artillery officers by Troop and Battalion/Company who served during the Waterloo Campaign 1815 408

Appendix 3 List/of Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Artillery medal recipients from the Peninsula and Waterloo 411

Appendix 4 Siege Tables 417

Glossary and Abbreviations 427

Bibliography 430

Index 440

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