Название: Surrender at New Orleans: General Sir Harry Smith in the Peninsula and America
Автор: David Rooney, Michael Scott
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783831200
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 196
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 12,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
General Sir Harry Smith won the lifelong respect and affection of the Duke of Wellington. Famously married to the Spanish beauty, Juana, after the siege of Badajoz in 1812, they served together to the end of the Peninsula war. With the French defeated, Harry left with the British expedition to America in 1814, and witnessed the burning of the White House. The fiery Admiral Cochrane raged bitterly I am sorry you left a house standing in Washington depend on it, it is a mistaken mercy .
Later, Harry joined Wellington s brother-in-law, Ned Pakenham, in the invasion of Louisiana. On 8 January 1815, they attacked General Jackson s well prepared positions protecting New Orleans. A resounding defeat for the British, in which Pakenham was killed, it fell to Harry to take part in the surrender to General Jackson, and then to convey the dismal news to London.