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| Series | 105th Foot #4 |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Author | Martin McDowell |
| Year | FeedARead, 2022 |
| First Published | 2018 |
| ISBN | 9781788762625 |
| Amazon ID | B07BGDKXR7 |
| Goodreads ID | 44498377 |
| Google Books ID | DBqztQEACAAJ |
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| Series | 105th Foot #4 |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Author | Martin McDowell |
| Year | FeedARead, 2022 |
| First Published | 2018 |
| ISBN | 9781788762625 |
| Amazon ID | B07BGDKXR7 |
| Goodreads ID | 44498377 |
| Google Books ID | DBqztQEACAAJ |
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The Prince of Wales Own Wessex Regiment, known throughout Wellington’s Army as the Rag and Bone Boys , a nickname they earned after their first battle against the French have been in the Peninsula since 1808 and it is now 1811.
The twelve months between March 1811 and March 1812 was the time of decision, when Napoleon swelled the armies of Marshalls Soult and Marmont with French veterans, this with the aim of ridding Spain and Portugal once and for all from the tiresome British.
As a consequence, during this period the Allied army under the Duke of Wellington fought more battles and sieges and suffered more casualties than all the other years of the war combined. Within this twelve months, came the most severe encounters of the whole campaign, the dreadful battles of Albuera and Fuentes d’Onoro, then the two sieges Cuidad Rodrigo and Badajoz, each appalling for their hardships, the severity of the assaults and their aftermath.