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Informationen zum Autor MIKE CHAPPELL comes from an Aldershot family with British Army connections stretching back several generations. He enlisted as a teenage private in the Royal Hampshire Regiment in 1952 and retired in 1974, as RSM of the 1st Battalion The Wessex Regiment (Rifle Volunteers), after seeing service in Malaya, Cyprus, Swaziland, Libya, Germany, Ulster and home garrisons. He began painting military subjects in 1968 and has gained worldwide popularity as a military illustrator. Mike has written and illustrated many books for Osprey. MIKE CHAPPELL comes from an Aldershot family with British Army connections stretching back several generations. He enlisted as a teenage private in the Royal Hampshire Regiment in 1952 and retired in 1974, as RSM of the 1st Battalion The Wessex Regiment (Rifle Volunteers), after seeing service in Malaya, Cyprus, Swaziland, Libya, Germany, Ulster and home garrisons. He began painting military subjects in 1968 and has gained worldwide popularity as a military illustrator. Mike has written and illustrated many books for Osprey. Klappentext The forces which Wellington led in Portugal and Spain and up into southern France between 1808 and 1814 achieved a consistent record of victory perhaps unmatched in the history of the British Army. Some 40 per cent of this volunteer army were Irishmen - a remarkable figure, given the recent unrest and bloodshed in Ireland. This book details the record, and illustrates the uniforms and equipment, of the two cavalry and three infantry units boasting formal Irish identity: the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, 18th Hussars, 27th (Enniskillen), 87th (Prince of Wales's Own Irish), and 88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiments of Foot. Zusammenfassung The famously hard-fighting Irish regiments of the British Army distinguished themselves not only in many of the main Peninsular battles, but also in several dramatic, but lesser known actions. This work details the 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers) and the 27th Foot (Enniskillens). Inhaltsverzeichnis · The Irish in the British Army of the Napoleonic Wars · The Irish Establishment · 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards · 27th Foot (Enniskillen) · 83rd Foot · 87th Foot (Prince of Wales's Own Irish) · 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers) · 89th Foot....
List of contents
The Irish in the British Army of the Napoleonic Wars
The Irish Establishment
4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
27th Foot (Enniskillen)
83rd Foot
87th Foot (Prince of Wales's Own Irish)
88th Foot (Connaught Rangers)
89th Foot
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Mike Chappell, illustrated by Mike Chappell
