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Sergeant Guillemard - The Man Who Shot Nelson? a Soldier of the Infantry of the French Army of Napoleon on Campaign Throughout Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Sergeant Guillemard - The Man Who Shot Nelson? a Soldier of the Infantry of the French Army of Napoleon on Campaign Throughout Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Robert Guillemard was one of those unusual people (a real life
example of a character type now very popular in fiction) who found
himself engaging with remarkable people during important historical
events-not just once, but repeatedly As a young soldier he found
himself in the top of a French battleship at Trafalgar as the
Victory closed for action and it was him-he claims-who fired the
fatal shot that killed Nelson. He was present at the murder of
Villeneuve, the defeated French admiral, and in the company of
Napoleon. He fought in Germany at Stralsund and at Wagram. He
campaigned in the Peninsula, was, captured and escaped. After the
siege of Tortosa and the award of the Legion of Honour he marched
on the fateful campaign into Russia-fighting at Borodino and
beyond. There are a number of first-hand accounts of French
soldiers of the Infantry during the Napoleonic Wars that have been
reprinted with some regularity, but Robert Guillemard's with be an
unfamiliar and new delight to many modern readers.
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