Name: 'the Scum of the Earth': What Happened to the Real British Heroes of Waterloo? (en Inglés)
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Author: Colin Brown
ISBN: 9780750989176

portada 'the Scum of the Earth': What Happened to the Real British Heroes of Waterloo? (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

The History Press Ltd

Autor

Colin Brown

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

250

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780750989176

N° edición

Categorías

Historia militar

'the Scum of the Earth': What Happened to the Real British Heroes of Waterloo? (en Inglés)

Colin Brown (Autor) · The History Press Ltd · Tapa Blanda

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The Scum of the Earth follows the men Wellington called just that from victory at Waterloo to a Regency Britain at war with itself, and explodes some of the myths on the way; such as that the defeat of Napoleon ended the threat of revolution spreading from France. Did the victorious soldiers return to a land fit for heroes? They did not. In 1819, the Peterloo massacre saw 15 killed and at least 500 injured when cavalry sabred a crowd demanding parliamentary reform. Peace in Europe perhaps for 50 years—but at home, repression and revolution in the air. And at the same time, the sheer exuberance of the Regency period, with new buildings, new art, even 17 new colonies more or less accidentally acquired. By 1848 the whole of Europe was once more set for complete upheaval. There is no one better to take a cold, hard look at the battle itself and its aftermath, in order to save us from an anniversary of misty-eyed backslapping, than political editor Colin Brown.