The Wars of the French Revolution


    PENINSULAR
    CAMPAIGN
  • Major William Warre's Description of Landing in the Peninsula (8 June 1808)
  • Major William Warre on the Skirmish at Rolica (19 August 1808)
  • VIMIERO (August 1808)
           Major William (22 August 1808)
           Warre's Second Account (17 September 1808)
  • A Catalan Guerilla's Account of a Skirmish with the French (1 October 1808)
  • CORUNNA (January 1809):
          Dr. Neale (5-19 January 1809)
          Sir Charles Napier, First Battalion Commander (16 January 1809)
  • Major William Warre's Description of Camp Life (11 September 1809)
  • Major William Warre on the Action at Tamames (26 October 1809)
  • Major William Warre on a Skirmish at Almeida (9 July 1810)
  • Major William Warre on the Lines at Torres Vedras (10 October 1810)
  • Major William Warre on the First Battle of Badajoz (7-8 April 1811)
  • Rifleman Kincaid on the Battle of Cuidad Rodrigo (19 January 1812)
  • SECOND BATTLE OF BADAJOZ (April 1812)
          Moyle Sherer (March 1812)
          Robert Blakeney (6 April 1812)
  • SALAMANCA (July 1812):
          Major William Warre's First Letter (24 July 1812)
          Major William Warre's Second Letter (25 July 1812)
  • Sergeant John Cooper, 7th Royal Fusiliers, on Battles in the Pyrenees (1813)
  • Sergeant John Cooper, 7th Royal Fusiliers, on the Battle of Pamplona (July 1813)
  • Sergeant John Cooper, 7th Royal Fusiliers, on Skirmishes in the Pyrenees (FALL 1813)

  • NAVAL
    ACTIONS
    • The Glorious First of June (1794)
       An Anonymous Account
       William Parker
       Captain Cuthbert Collingwood, HMS Barfleur
       Log of HMS Royal George
       Log of HMS Royal Sovereign
       Lieutenant J. Smith on HMS Royal George
       Another Anonymous Account
     
    • The Battle of Cape Saint Vincent, Captain Cuthbert Collingwood (17 February 1797)
     
    • The Battle of the Nile (1798)
       Nelson on the Battle of the Nile (3 Aug 1798)
       Poussielgue on the Battle of the Nile (3 Aug 1798)
       Nelson on the Battle of the Nile
     
    • The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
       Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, HMS Euryalus
       Captain Blackwood
       Lieutenant Nicholas
       Midshipman Roberts, HMS Victory

    OTHER ACTIONS
  • The Taking of Seringpatam (1799)
  • Rifleman Harris on the Walcheren Expedition (1809)
  • Foreign and Colonial Troops in British Pay (1815)

  • WATERLOO (JUNE 1815)
     ALLIED ACCOUNTS:
        The Prince of Orange, Commander of Dutch Forces
        General Augustus Wilhelm Gneisnau, Prussian Chief-of-Staff
        Lt-General Charles Alten, Commander of Allied 3rd Division
        Lieutenant William Turner, 13th Hussars
        Officer of the 13th Hussars
        Officer of the 18th Hussars
        Private John Marshall, 10th Hussars
     FRENCH ACCOUNTS:
        Marshal Ney, Commander French Cavalry
     NEUTRALS' ACCOUNTS:
        Don Miguel de Alava, Spanish Ambassador to Holland

    Map of the Battle