The French Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars - Primary Sources

The French Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars - Primary Sources

1797 - Memoirs Relating to the French Revolution - The Marquis de Boille

1798 - An Authentic Narrative of the Glorious Battle of the Nile - "An Officer of Rank in the Squadron"

1802 - A Voyage up the Mediterranean, with a Description of the Battle of the Nile - Rev. Cooper Willyams

1802 - Memoirs of the Bastille, Archives of the Castle at the time of its surrender - Francis Gibson

1803 - Rules and Regulations for the Field Exercise & Manoeuvres of the French Infantry, Vol 1 - John MacDonald

1805 - A List of All the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines

1806 - The Battle of Trafalgar, A Poem - William King

1810 - Observations on the Formation and Constitution of the French Army - "A British Officer"

1812 - The Royal Military Chronicle, or British Officers Monthly Register, Vol IV

1812 - General Orders (of the British Army in) Spain and Portugal, January 1st to December 31st, Vol 3

1813 - Retreat of the French Army from Russia - J. Decker (translator)

1813 - The Life of Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson - Richard Clarke

1814 - A Circumstantial Narrative of the Campaign in Russia - Eugene Labaume

1815 - Memoirs of Major General Andrew Burn of the Royal Marines, vol 1

1815 - Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain - M De Rocca, translated by Maria Graham

1815 - The Royal Military Calendar, vol 1 - John Philippart

1815 - A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine - William Burney

1816 - Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana, 1814-1815 - Major A Lacarriere Latour

1816 - Memoirs of My Own Times, vol 1 - General James Wilkinson

1816 - The History of the War, from the French Revolution to the Present Time, Vol. 1 - Hewson Clarke

1816 - The History of the War, from the French Revolution to the Present Time, Vol. 2 - Hewson Clarke

1816 - The History of the War, from the French Revolution to the Present Time, Vol. 3 - Hewson Clarke

1817 - Historical Sketches of the Late War between the United States and Great Britain - John Lewis Thomson

1819 - Journal of a Soldier of the 71st, or Glasgow Regiment, Highland Light Infantry

1819 - Notes on the War in the South - Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne

1828 - The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans - George Robert Gleig

1831 - Rough Sketches of the Life of an Old Soldier - Lt Col J Leach

1837 - The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV, Vol. IV - William James

1843 - Life and Literary Remains of Charles Reece Pemberton, incl. a memoir of Trafalgar - W.J. Fox

1845 - The Subaltern - George Robert Gleig

1848 - The Recollections of Rifleman Harris, old 95th - Benjamin Harris

1851 - Life of the Duke of Wellington - Charles MacFarlane

1852 - Adventures of a Soldier - Edward Costello, Rifle Brigade

1853 - A Narrative of the Battles of Quatre-Bras and Waterloo - Matthew Clay, Scots Fusilier Guards

1854 - Fifty Years in Both Hemispheres (incl. accounts of New Orleans campaign, War of 1812) - Vincent Nolte

1860 - Fragments of Voyages and Travels - Captain Basil Hall, Royal Navy

1886 - The Autobiography of Sgt William Lawrence, Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns - William Lawrence

1890 - The Reay Fencibles, or Lord Reay's Highlanders - John Mackay

1911 - Recollections of an Officer of Napoleon's Army - Captain Elzear Blaze

1913 - The Soldiers Whom Wellington Led - Edward Fraser

The Life of the Most Noble Arthur, Marquis and Earl of Wellington - Francis L Clarke

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