A Close Run Thing: Wellington's Army of 1815 - Hardcover

Mallinson, Allan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553111140 ISBN 13: 9780553111149

Publisher: Bantam USA, 1999

Synopsis

British cavalry soldier Cornet Matthew Hervey and his regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons, journey from the Pyrenees to the distant shores of Cork, and finally to Belgium in mid-June, 1815, at the crossroads of Quatre Bras near the small village of Waterloo.

About this title

About the Author

Allan Mallinson is a serving cavalry officer in the British army and the author of Light Dragoons, a history of the British cavalry. He lives with his wife and two daughters on Salisbury Plain.

From the Inside Flap

tion of Patrick O'Brian's beloved historical military adventures comes the first in a dashing new series featuring Cornet Matthew Hervey, a young cavalry officer in Wellington's army of 1815. Bringing alive the Napoleonic era and the armies whose blood stained the soil of turbulent nations, here is the story of one man whose valor and vision bring him honor, betrayal, and a challenge beyond his imagining.

For two decades, since the French Revolution, Britain and her allies have fought a seemingly endless war to loosen Bonaparte's stranglehold on Europe. And Englishmen such as Matthew Hervey, led by the "Iron Duke" of Wellington, have left the green pastures of home to follow the drum in His Majesty's cavalry. By 1814 Hervey, a twenty-three-year-old parson's son, has been on campaign with the 6th Light Dragoons for over five years--only to find his military career endangered by an impetuous act of gallantry....

With the French army at last defeated and Bonaparte exil

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam USA
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553111140
• ISBN 13: 9780553111149
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 306