EAN 9781848843929

Eyewitness to the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo The journals of the Honourable James Stanhope are among the most remarkable eyewitness accounts of the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, and yet they have never been published before. The long fight against the French in Portugal and Spain, the campaign in Holland, then the Battle of Waterloo - James Stanhope lived through all these extraordinary events and recorded them in vivid detail. He served as an aide de camp to the major commanders of the day - Wellington, General Graham, Lord Paget, the Duke of York among them.