Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo (Osprey General Military)

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Автор: Nick Lipscombe

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

Издательство: Osprey Publishing

Серия: Osprey General Military

ISBN: 1780961146

Год: 2013

Формат: PDF (e-book)

Страниц: 472

Размер: 6 Mb

Язык: English

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.