The Story of Wellington
by Harold Wheeler
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wheeler, Harold, 1877-
- Credits
- Produced by Shaun Pinder, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 50434
- Release Date
- November 11, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE STORY OF WELLINGTON — Uniform with this Volume
- 2.Untitled
- 3.Foreword
- 4.Contents
- 5.Illustrations
- 6.The Story of Wellington — CHAPTER I The Fool of the Family (1769–93)
- 7.CHAPTER II Wellington’s Baptism of Fire (1794–97)
- 8.CHAPTER III The Campaign of Seringapatam (1797–1800)
- 9.CHAPTER IV War with the Marhattás (1801–3)
- 10.CHAPTER V Last Years in India (1803–5)
- 11.CHAPTER VI Service in England, Ireland, and Denmark (1805–7)
- 12.CHAPTER VII The First Battles of the Peninsular War (1808)
- 13.CHAPTER VIII Victory Abroad, and Displeasure at Home (1808–9)
- 14.CHAPTER IX Sir Arthur’s Return to Portugal (1809)
- 15.CHAPTER X Talavera (1809)
- 16.CHAPTER XI Wellesley’s Defence of Portugal (1809–10)
- 17.CHAPTER XII The Lines of Torres Vedras (1810)
- 18.CHAPTER XIII Masséna beats a Retreat (1810–11)
- 19.CHAPTER XIV The Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1811–12)
- 20.CHAPTER XV Badajoz and Salamanca (1812)
- 21.CHAPTER XVI The Closing Battles of the Peninsular War (1812–14)
- 22.CHAPTER XVII The Prelude to the Waterloo Campaign (1814–15)
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII Ligny and Quatre Bras (1815)
- 24.CHAPTER XIX Waterloo (1815)
- 25.CHAPTER XX Wellington the Statesman (1815–52)
- 26.Index of Proper Names
- 27.FOOTNOTES
- 28.Transcriber’s Notes
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