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Title: Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain, ... translated
from the French by Maria Graham].Publisher: British Library,
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Rocca, Albert Jean Michel de; Graham, Maria; 1815. viii, 384 p.; 8
. 1060.f.5.
Hussar Rocca. War to the death against the British and the Spanish
guerrillas. Hussar Rocca gives an account of the Peninsular
Campaign from an entirely different perspective. Albert Rocca was
an officer of Napoleon's 2nd Regiment of Hussars. For him Spain was
not just alien but totally hostile as well. Where British
chroniclers of the Peninsula berate the qualities of the Spanish
armies, Rocca knew that his life was constantly under threat from
not only the enemy armies but also from a population who would kill
an unwary or isolated Frenchman in a moment. This is a riveting
account made more readable in this Leonaur edition by reworking a
previously clumsy translation.
Hussar Rocca. War to the death against the British and the Spanish
guerrillas. Hussar Rocca gives an account of the Peninsular
Campaign from an entirely different perspective. Albert Rocca was
an officer of Napoleon's 2nd Regiment of Hussars. For him Spain was
not just alien but totally hostile as well. Where British
chroniclers of the Peninsula berate the qualities of the Spanish
armies, Rocca knew that his life was constantly under threat from
not only the enemy armies but also from a population who would kill
an unwary or isolated Frenchman in a moment. This is a riveting
account made more readable in this Leonaur edition by reworking a
previously clumsy translation.
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