Название: Wellington's Redjackets: The 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment on Campaign in South America and the Peninsula, 1805-14
Автор: Steve Brown, Robert Burnham
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 11,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
The assault was failing. Wellington’s men had stormed the walls of the great frontier fortress of Badajoz only to be beaten back with terrible losses. Then on the keep of the old castle the French flag was torn down and a British officer’s red jacket was hauled up the flagpole. It was the signal – the British were inside Badajoz!