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John Fremantle was on Wellington's personal staff through the later years of the Peninsular War and Waterloo campaigns.
He had a uniquely privileged view of the general and tells of his exploits — good and bad. The letters were written to his uncle, who was effectively his guardian, an army man and no shrinking violet.
Fremantle deals with military matters in detail and gives a great insight into Wellington's honest views of matters — not...
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The British archives of the Napoleonic wars are unique, brimming with personal letters to family and friends or journals that record their innermost thoughts. The human aspect of war comes to the fore, the humor and exhilaration; the fears and miseries; the starvation and exhaustion; the horror and the joy.
It is usually accepted that very few common soldiers of this period could read or write and that the few letters and journals that do exist emanate...
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