CLASS ASSIGNMENT

 

THE BEAU MONDE ACADEME

 

BEFORE DURING AND AFTER WATERLOO

 

CLASS ASSIGNMENT I

 

Please read one of the memoirs of the Peninsula-Waterloo campaigns and summarize its content for all of us to share. I am thinking of just a couple of paragraphs to give us an idea of what we’d find if we read the material in full.  The list below is far from comprehensive, so feel free to choose anything else you find relevant.  Most of my list below can be found on the net.  Others can be found in libraries – or from new or used book sources.

 

On this site, there are hundreds of sources from letters and journals of British soldiers:

http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/bibliographic/BritishMemoirs/c_british17.html

 

Memoirs:

 

1. Tomkinson, William  Diary of A Cavalry Officer

https://archive.org/details/cu31924024323663

 

2. Creevey, Thomas, The Creevey Papers (John Gore, ed.)  London, B.T. Basford Ltd., 1963

http://archive.org/stream/creeveypaperssel02creeuoft/creeveypaperssel02creeuoft_ djvu.txt 

 

3. Croker, John Wilson  The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker. Edited by Louis J. Jennings, HardPress Publishing, 2013

https://archive.org/details/crokerpaperscor00jenngoog

 

4. Gronow, Captain Rees Howell, Reminiscences (Christopher Hibbert, ed.)  ISBN 1 85626 013 5 London: Kyle Cathie Ltd.,   1991  

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3798

 

5. Picton, Thomas. Memoirs of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton London : Richard Bentley; 1835. Two Volumes; http://books.google.com/books/about/Memoirs_of_Lieutenant_General_Sir_Thomas.html?id=U6RpAAAAMAAJ

 

6. Boutflower, Charles. The Journal of an Army Surgeon during the Peninsular War Staplehurst: Spellmount; 1997. 193 pages; ISBN: 1-873376-85-5

https://archive.org/details/journalofarmysur00boutuoft

 

7. Wellesley, Arthur , Duke of Wellington The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, During His Various Campaigns, Volume 4 (Early Peninsula) other volumes also available

http://books.google.com/books?id=4QU-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA327&lpg=PA327&dq=At+Wellington;s+Right+Hand&source=bl&ots=E8IOMxb5NF&sig=F_cW_qQHDO1SRHcTyddwc4zJtQw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8mlfVJe-G5KAygSN6oLIDw&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=At%20Wellington%3Bs%20Right%20Hand&f=false

8. Cavalie Mercer (General)  Journal of the Waterloo Campaign

http://books.google.com/books?id=ukzSoAEACAAJ&dq=Cavalie+Mercer++Journal+of+the+Waterloo+Campaign&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FGtfVPx-1bPIBMTlgMgM&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAw

 

9. Simmons, George  British Rifleman: Journals

http://archive.org/stream/britishriflemanj00simm/britishriflemanj00simm_djvu.txt

 

10. Kincaid, John  Adventures in the Rifle Brigade in the Peninsula, France and the Netherlands

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28981

 

11. Smith, Sir Harry Autobiography

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hsmith/autobiography/harry.html

 

12. Larpent, Frances Seymour  Private Journal (Judge Advocate to theArmies in Spain)

http://books.google.com/books?id=XbHkceD_ZvMC&pg=PR6&lpg=PR6&dq=Larpent,+Frances+Seymour+Private+Journal&source=bl&ots=TZ6yreKqZM&sig=bIz9l3F6QDxHVaJlNyxKhQN7Mko&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yH1fVNz_OcmuyASOvIC4DQ&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCw#v=onepage&q=Larpent%2C%20Frances%20Seymour%20Private%20Journal&f=false

 

13. Grattan, William   Adventures with the Connaught Rangers

https://archive.org/details/adventureswithco00gratuoft

 

14. With Napoleon at Waterloo and Other Unpublished Documents of the Waterloo and Peninsular Campaigns. Mac Kenzie and Mac Bride (ed.). London: Francis Griffiths, 1911..

http://archive.org/stream/withnapoleonatwa00macbuoft/withnapoleonatwa00macbuoft_djvu.txt

 

You might also find some good material from this site:

List of Books Available for Download from Digital Libraries