COLONEL NAPIER'S
HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULA,
AND IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE;
From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814.
With Plates. Four Volumes 8vo. price £4; or, sold separately, 20s. each.
In One Volume, post 8vo. price 10s. 6d. boards,
A NARRATIVE OF EVENTS IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE,
And of the ATTACK ON NEW ORLEANS, in 1814 & 1815.
By CAPT. S. H. COOKE, 43d Regt.
"This clever and fearless account of the attack on New Orleans is penned by one of the "occupation;" whose soldier-like view and keen observation during the period of the stirring events he so well relates, has enabled him to bring before the public the ablest account that has yet been given of that ill-fated and disgraceful expedition, and also to rescue the troops who were employed on it from those degrading reflections which have hitherto unjustly been insinuated against them. The admirable conduct of the navy throughout this campaign it is impossible too highly to extol."—Gentleman's Magazine.
"We like this sort of thing extremely, and we say unhesitatingly, that the work before us makes its entrée in that easy off-hand manner, which makes us friends with the author at once, and the volume will afford more amusement infinitely, and peradventure as much real instruction, as ten goodly tomes of the merely learned. We wish earnestly to call the attention of military men to the campaign before New Orleans. It is fraught with a fearful interest, and fixes upon the mind reflections of almost every hue. Captain Cooke's relation is vivid; every evolution is made as clear to the eye as if we had been present, and the remarks, we think, are eminently judicious. The book must be generally read," &c.—Metropolitan.
"It is full of good feeling, and it abounds with sketches of the service, views of other countries, and anecdotes of our own troops and of the enemy, which are many of them striking and few of them uninteresting. Much that he narrates is amusing, and there is a point in many of his stories that tells effectively."—Sunday Herald.
AN ESSAY
ON THE
PRINCIPLES AND CONSTRUCTION
OF
MILITARY BRIDGES,
AND THE PASSAGE OF RIVERS IN MILITARY OPERATIONS,
BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS, BART.
K.S.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c. &c.
The Second Edition, containing much additional Matter and Plates,
8vo. price 20s. boards.