The private journal of F.S. Larpent
| dc.contributor.author | Larpent, Francis Seymour | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Richard Bentley (Publicação) Sir George Larpent, Bart. (Edição) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2/29/24 7:45 | |
| dc.date.available | 2/29/24 7:45 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1853 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Obra composta a partir do diário pessoal do autor e de cartas endereçadas à sua madrasta, entre 1812 e 1814, durante o seu serviço na Guerra Peninsular. | |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Contents of vol. I –– Chapter I –– Preface Departure from England - Exercises on ship-board - Off the coast - Arrival at Lisbon - Residence there - Journey to head quarters commenced - Abrantes - General features of the March - Salamanca (p. 1) Chapter II: Arrival at head-quarters - Ciudad Rodrigo - The retreat - Its disasters - Captures of General Paget - Personal anecdotes - Scarcity of provisions - Courts-martial in the army - Business of a Judge- Advocate - Wellington (p. 33); * Chapter III: Arrival of the Gazette - More courts-martial - The mad Commissary - Intentions of Lord Wellington - Social amusements - Sporting - Wellington's fox-hounds - His stud - A dinner at the Commander-in- Chief's - Number of courts-martial - Anecdotes of Wellington (p. 59); * Chapter IV: More courts-martial - Bal masqué - Anecdotes of Wellington - Songs in his praise - Spanish banditti - Excesses of the army - Carnival - More anecdotes of the Duke - The staff - Grand entertainment at head-quarters - Wellington's opinion of affairs at home - Murder of an officer - General Crauford (p. 87); * Chapter V: News of the French - Castilian costume - Equipment of the army - Melancholy court-martial case - Wellington in the battle of Fuentes d'Onore - The chances of war - Anecdotes of Wellington - His opinions of the war - The new Mutiny Act - Wellington on "Vetus" - General Murray - Advance of the French (p. 136); * Chapter VI: Newspaper complaints - Wellington's comments - Review of the Portuguese - Gatherings at head- quarters - Reviews - Recommencement of the march - The route (p. 165); * Chapter VII: The march commenced - Scenes on the road - Vella Dalla - Toro - Castro Monte - Palencia - Prospects of a general action - Skirmishing - Massa (p. 188); * Chapter VIII March continued - Quintana - Anecdote of Wellington - Morillas - Vittoria - The battle - Its results - Plunder - Kindness to the enemy - Madame de Gazan - The hospital - Sufferings of the wounded - Estimated loss (p. 231); * Chapter IX: Pamplona - Pursuit of Clausel - Wellington on the march - Prospects of more fighting - Effects of the war - The French position turned - Anecdote of Wellington - Ernani - St. Sebastian - Wellington's movements (p. 255); Contents of vol. II - * Chapter I: Movements of the army - Wellington on the Portuguese - His personal habits - St. Sebastian - The siege - Miseries of war - Wounded officers - The Prince of Orange - Vestiges of the retreat - English papers - False accounts of the campaign - Incidents of the war (p. 1); * Chapter II: Rejoicings for the victory - Sufferings of Cole's division - Complaints of the French - Statements of a French prisoner - Decay of Spain - Characteristics of Wellington - His opinion of Bonaparte - Prospects of a renewal of the attack - Exchange of prisoners - Wellington's Spanish estate - His opinion of Picton - Disposition of the army (p. 38); * Chapter III: Reported renewal of operations against St. Sebastian - Effects of the war on Spain and Portugal - Wellington's account of recent proceedings - Courts-martial - Prisoners shot - Discussions on war between Wellington and a French deserter - The siege resumed - Work of the heavy batteries - Trial of General O'Halloran - Volunteers for the storming parties (p. 65); * Chapter IV: The Author taken prisoner - Kind treatment by the French General - Life of a prisoner - Release - Details of the Author's captivity - Curious scene at General Pakenham's - A Basque squire (p. 83); * Chapter V Picturesque quarters - Spanish reverses - A strange adventurer - Spanish jealousy - Distribution of the army - A pleasant companion - News from the North - Morale of the French army - The artillery (p. 121); * Chapter VI: Fall of Pamplona - Deterioration of the army - Duke of York's orders - Orders of merit - Church service - Capture of French redoubts - March of the army - Incidents of foreign service - Frequency of desertion - Wellington and the lawyers (p. 143); * Chapter VII: News from France - Lord Fitzroy Somerset - Departure of the Prince of Orange - Exchange of prisoners - Proximity of the two armies - Wellington's cooks - Warlike movements - French attack - The Guards - Deserters - More fighting (p. 174); * Chapter VIII: French attack - Plan of desertion - Excesses of the French - A Basque witness - Sir John Hope - Movements of the army - Sale of effects - Wellington's simplicity of character - A French emigré - Return of Soult to Bayonne (p. 196); * Chapter IX: Reports from France - More desertion - Anecdote of General Stewart - Wellington and his casualty returns - The courtesies of war - Scarcity of transports - Wellington and the trial-papers - Sir G. Collier (p. 219); * Chapter X: Rumours of war - The rival dinner tables - "Slender Billy" - Bonaparte's trickery - Spanish violence - Wellington with the hounds - French and English aspects - The outsides of the nations (p. 239); * Chapter XI: State of feeling in France - Rocket-practice - The Prince Regent's hobby - The Mayor's ball - The flag- of-truce (p. 253); * Chapter XII: Army supplies - Offending villages - Symptoms of work - Arrival of the Duke d'Angoulême - The bridge across the Adour - Wellington and his chief engineer - His activity (p. 276); Contents of vol. III - * Chapter I: Movements of the army - Narrow escape of Wellington - Anecdote of Wellington at Rodrigo - Novel scaling ladders - Sir Alexander Dickson - Wellington's vanity - Operations resumed - Spanish officers - The passage of the Adour - The road to Bayonne - Death of Captain Pitts (p. 1); * Chapter II: Passage of the river - Start for Orthes - Effect of the battle - Feelings of the French - Wellington wounded - St. Sever - Church and school - Aire - Wellington on the conduct of the Allies - Indurating effects of war (p. 28); * Chapter III: Reports from the seat of war - The Duke d' Angoulême - The German Cavalry - Misconduct of the Spaniards - Attacks on our grazing parties - Movement of head-quarters - Death of Colonel Sturgeon - Visit to the hospital - New quarters - Skirmishes - Wellington and the mayor (p. 57); * Chapter IV: Difficulties of the march - Failure of the bridge of boats - The Garonne - Excesses of Murillo's corps - Bad news - Exchange of prisoners - Arrival before Toulouse - A prisoner of war - Anecdote of Wellington (p. 82); * Chapter V: Uncertain intelligence - Capture of Toulouse - Wellington at the Theatre - The "Liberator" - Ball at the Prefecture - The feelings of the French - Soult and Suchet - Ball at the Capitole (p. 124); * Chapter VI: Toulouse - Its churches - Protestant service - Libraries - Reception of the Duke d'Angoulême - The French Generals - Popularity of Wellington (p. 161); * Chapter VII: Toulouse - Mr. Macarthy's Library - The Marquess of Buckingham - General Hope - Wellington's dukedom - The Theatre - A romantic story - Feeling towards the English - The Duke on the Russian cavalry (p. 196); * Chapter VIII: Preparations for departure - Bordeaux - Imposition on the English - Greetings from the women - Mausoleum of Louis XVI (p. 225); * Chapter IX: The Opera-House - The cathedral - The synagogue - A Jewish wedding - Strangeshow house - Wellington and King Ferdinand (p. 244); * Chapter X: Country fêtes - Brawls with the French - The Duc d'Angoulême - Mademoiselle Georges - The actress and the emperor - French acting and French audiences - Presentation of a sword to Lord Dalhousie - George's benefit - Departure (p. 264). | |
| dc.identifier | F. 3021 FOT. 27 V | |
| dc.identifier.other | 28 | |
| dc.identifier.other | A | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://id.bnportugal.gov.pt/bib/catbnp/231709 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://books.google.fr/books?id=MkvdMZbQcm8C&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://cetapsrepository.letras.up.pt/id/cetaps/113891 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.city | Londres | |
| dc.publisher.country | Inglaterra | |
| dc.relation.edition | 1ª | |
| dc.relation.ispartofvolume | In three volumes. | |
| dc.rights | metadata only access | |
| dc.source.place | B.N. C.E.A.P. | |
| dc.subject | Literatura de viagem | |
| dc.title | The private journal of F.S. Larpent | |
| dc.title.subtitle | Esq., Judge-Advocate General of the British Forces in the Peninsula attached to the head-quarters of Lord Wellington during the Peninsular War, from 1812 to its close. | |
| dc.type | book | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| person.familyName | Larpent | |
| person.givenName | Francis Seymour | |
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