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Sto caricando le informazioni... Kings and Emperorsdi Dewey Lambdin
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Not much happening at sea so Captain Lewrie goes ashore for further adventures. Fortunately, Napoleon has invaded Iberia so the Peninsular War begins Sir John Moore exits and Wellington enters the scene. Alan is present at the Battle of Vimeiro and takes down several French officers with his trusty Ferguson Rifle as the "Sepoy General" shows how to beat Napoleon's Legions. Interesting characters in very interesting times. May the series continue "To Live Long and Prosper": ( ) The 21st Book of the series, and here is a continuation directly of the last book with our hero still at Gibraltar though now the invasion of the British onto the Peninsula is underway. Lure not only finds a means to integrate fully as a Naval officer into the initial campaign but still works around any attachment to the various fleets that are blockading elsewhere in the Med or Atlantic. There are moments of danger for he and his men, but no great chases and pursuits as we have seen before. Now it is mostly about having the Spanish realize that England should be their Ally, not France, and then the war is on in ernest, for no war was ever won without the infantry to seize some land. Is this the best of the series for our age of sail, no, but it is necessary as we continue the path of an officer who was birthed in the bloody Colonial Revolution and will see his career's end during that of the French War. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieAlan Lewrie (21)
"In Kings and Emperors, the twenty-first book in Dewey Lambdin's beloved Alan Lewrie series, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his schemes for raids along the coast of Southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to commanding a clutch of harbor defense gunboats in the bay while his ship, HMS Sapphire, slowly grounds herself on a reef of beef bones! Until Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of peaceful Portugal and his so-called collaborative march into Spain change everything, freeing Sapphire to roam against the King's enemies once more! As kings are overthrown and popular uprisings break out all across Spain, Lewrie's right back in the action, ferrying weapons to arm Spanish patriots, scouting within close gun range of the impregnable fort of Ceuta, escorting the advance units of British expeditionary armies to aid the Spanish, and even going ashore to witness the first battles between Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, and Napoleon's best Marshals, as the long Peninsular War that broke Imperial France begins to unfold. From Cadiz to La Coruna, Lewrie and Sapphire will be there as history explodes!"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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