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Hackproof Email

by Joseph Sinclair ...

Your email travels over local transmissions twice and over the Internet three times before it reaches the recipient. That's a lot of exposure. Your email is the cornerstone of your cybersecurity. If someone hacks into your email and steals your identity, it exposes your entire cyber presence to fraud or digital mischief. What can you do to make your use of email secure from hacking?Since there are ... Read more

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Your email travels over local transmissions twice and over the Internet three times before it reaches the recipient. That's a lot of exposure. Your email is the cornerstone of your cybersecurity. If someone hacks into your email and steals your identity, it exposes your entire cyber presence to fraud or digital mischief. What can you do to make your use of email secure from hacking?Since there are
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A Soldier of the Seventy-First

From De la Plata to Waterloo, 1806–1815

by Joseph Sinclair ...

The authors sharp eye for the illuminating detail and the oddities of human behavior enabled him to present a picture of army life as graphic and revealing as any drawn by a private soldier during the Napoleonic Wars - Christopher HibbertThis remarkable memoir was first published in Edinburgh in 1819 and has withstood the test of time. One cannot improve on Sir Charles Omans description of the ... Read more

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The authors sharp eye for the illuminating detail and the oddities of human behavior enabled him to present a picture of army life as graphic and revealing as any drawn by a private soldier during the Napoleonic Wars - Christopher HibbertThis remarkable memoir was first published in Edinburgh in 1819 and has withstood the test of time. One cannot improve on Sir Charles Omans description of the
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In Love & War

The Lives and Marriage of General Harry and Lady Smith

by David Rooney, Michael Scott ...

An absorbing historical biography of the couple wed amid the chaos of the Napoleonic wars and their adventures from Europe to Asia to South Africa.The manner of their meeting was unprecedented. In 1812, during the lawless mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz, Spain, by Wellington, a fourteen-year-old Spanish girl sought the protection of Captain Harry Smith. They fell in love and married ... Read more

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An absorbing historical biography of the couple wed amid the chaos of the Napoleonic wars and their adventures from Europe to Asia to South Africa.The manner of their meeting was unprecedented. In 1812, during the lawless mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz, Spain, by Wellington, a fourteen-year-old Spanish girl sought the protection of Captain Harry Smith. They fell in love and married
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With the Boer Forces

by Howard Clemens Hillegas ...

In the following pages I have endeavoured to present an accurate picture of the Boers in war-time. My duties as a newspaper correspondent carried me to the Boer side, and herein I depict all that I saw. Some parts of my narrative may not be pleasing to the British reader; others may offend the sensibilities of the Boer sympathisers. I have written truthfully, but with a kindly spirit and with the ... Read more

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In the following pages I have endeavoured to present an accurate picture of the Boers in war-time. My duties as a newspaper correspondent carried me to the Boer side, and herein I depict all that I saw. Some parts of my narrative may not be pleasing to the British reader; others may offend the sensibilities of the Boer sympathisers. I have written truthfully, but with a kindly spirit and with the
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My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War

by Ben Johannis Viljoen, P. Van Breda ...

General Ben Viljoen, while engaged on this work, requested me to write a short introduction to it. This request I gladly comply with. ... Read more

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General Ben Viljoen, while engaged on this work, requested me to write a short introduction to it. This request I gladly comply with.
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Wellington's Spies

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The gripping story of three intelligence officers whose dangerous work and sacrifice helped lead to victory over Napoleon's forces.Intelligence was just as important in the Napoleonic Wars as it is today. But back then, there was only one way of obtaining it: through spies and informers. Here, Mary McGrigor uses firsthand accounts of three of Wellington's most daring and successful intelligence ... Read more

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The gripping story of three intelligence officers whose dangerous work and sacrifice helped lead to victory over Napoleon's forces.Intelligence was just as important in the Napoleonic Wars as it is today. But back then, there was only one way of obtaining it: through spies and informers. Here, Mary McGrigor uses firsthand accounts of three of Wellington's most daring and successful intelligence
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Voices From the Napoleonic Wars

From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 eyewitness accounts of a soldier's life in the early 1800s

by Jon E. Lewis ...

Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years of the nineteenth - the poor food and brutal discipline they endured, along with the forced marches and bloody, hand-to-hand combat.Contemporaries were mesmerised by Napoleon, and with good reason: in 1812, he had an unprecedented million men and more ... Read more

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Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years of the nineteenth - the poor food and brutal discipline they endured, along with the forced marches and bloody, hand-to-hand combat.Contemporaries were mesmerised by Napoleon, and with good reason: in 1812, he had an unprecedented million men and more
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The Autobiography of Sergeant Lawrence - A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns [Illustrated Edition]

by Sergeant William Lawrence ...

Sergeant William Lawrence's account of his life is an interesting addition to the memoirs of the Napoleonic period, not for the style and grace of the prose, as Lawrence was not a highly educated man, although highly observant. What is often missing from other memoirs of the period is that mostly, they are written by the officers, and with some notable exceptions do not give a feel for the way of ... Read more

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Sergeant William Lawrence's account of his life is an interesting addition to the memoirs of the Napoleonic period, not for the style and grace of the prose, as Lawrence was not a highly educated man, although highly observant. What is often missing from other memoirs of the period is that mostly, they are written by the officers, and with some notable exceptions do not give a feel for the way of
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Salamanca 1812

Wellington's Year of Victories

by Peter Edwards ...

1812 was the year in which the Peninsular War swung in the favor of the combined forces of the British, the Spanish and the Portuguese. This was the result of a series of victories over the French gained by the allied armies under Wellington, and this is the subject of Peter Edwardss compelling new history. The year began with Wellington launching a series of raids in Estramadura to distract ... Read more

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1812 was the year in which the Peninsular War swung in the favor of the combined forces of the British, the Spanish and the Portuguese. This was the result of a series of victories over the French gained by the allied armies under Wellington, and this is the subject of Peter Edwardss compelling new history. The year began with Wellington launching a series of raids in Estramadura to distract
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Tales from the Rifle Brigade

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade & Random Shots From a Rifleman

by John Kincaid ...

To Napoleon's troops, the sharp shooters of the 95th (Rifle) Regiment were 'the rascals in green', famed throughout Europe for their bravery, skill, and dash. Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade was the first book to be published by a veteran, recounting the amazing escapades of this legendary unit in the war against French armies in Portugal and Spain. His second volume, Random Shots From a ... Read more

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To Napoleon's troops, the sharp shooters of the 95th (Rifle) Regiment were 'the rascals in green', famed throughout Europe for their bravery, skill, and dash. Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade was the first book to be published by a veteran, recounting the amazing escapades of this legendary unit in the war against French armies in Portugal and Spain. His second volume, Random Shots From a
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Mafeking: A Diary Of The Siege [Illustrated Edition]

by Frederick David Baillie ...

The siege of Mafeking still stands as one of the British Military's high achievements, especially during the depths of the badly handled Boer War. The successful defence and relief were a shot in the arm for the British public which had become all too used to defeats and reverses in South Africa. Leading the heroic defence of Mafeking was the Colonel Baden-Powell, whose ingenious new methods of ... Read more

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The siege of Mafeking still stands as one of the British Military's high achievements, especially during the depths of the badly handled Boer War. The successful defence and relief were a shot in the arm for the British public which had become all too used to defeats and reverses in South Africa. Leading the heroic defence of Mafeking was the Colonel Baden-Powell, whose ingenious new methods of
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London to Ladysmith via Pretoria

by Winston Churchill ...

R.M.S. 'Dunottar Castle,' at sea: October 26, 1899. The last cry of 'Any more for the shore?' had sounded, the last good-bye had been said, the latest pressman or photographer had scrambled ashore, and all Southampton was cheering wildly along a mile of pier and promontory when at 6 P.M., on October 14, the Royal Mail steamer 'Dunottar Castle' left her moorings and sailed with Sir Redvers Buller ... Read more

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R.M.S. 'Dunottar Castle,' at sea: October 26, 1899. The last cry of 'Any more for the shore?' had sounded, the last good-bye had been said, the latest pressman or photographer had scrambled ashore, and all Southampton was cheering wildly along a mile of pier and promontory when at 6 P.M., on October 14, the Royal Mail steamer 'Dunottar Castle' left her moorings and sailed with Sir Redvers Buller
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