ABSTRACT

This book presents a general summary of the views on the history of the world held by various historians’ perspective. Rest of the book is derived from author’s main work of 20 years on the Napoleonic period.

Narrative includes four stories of the Secret Service that illustrate in different fashions the underworld of political and military intrigue which escapes notice in other general history work.

Some of the material included in this book is derived from the study of the British tactics before the Peninsular War and helps to comprehend Duke of Wellington’s methods of warfare with Napoleon and his armies. Discussion is included on Napoleon’s system of using his cavalry as a generalization with a specific study of the handling of the cavalry by his generals in the Spanish War.

chapter II|13 pages

A Defence of Military History

chapter III|36 pages

The Battle of Maida

chapter IV|9 pages

A Duel of 1807

chapter V|27 pages

Column and Line in the Peninsula

part |66 pages

Four Tales of Secret Service

chapter VI|14 pages

Tales of Secret Service (I)

The Baron de Agra, 1808–9

chapter VII|18 pages

Tales of Secret Service (II)

Brother James Robertson in the Baltic, 1808

chapter VIII|20 pages

Tales of Secret Service (III)

Baron Kolli and the Prisoner of Valençay

chapter IX|14 pages

Tales of Secret Service (IV)

Major Colquhoun Grant’s Tour in France

chapter X|32 pages

A Prisoner of Albuera

chapter XI|24 pages

How General Isaac Brock Saved Canada

chapter XII|30 pages

Napoleon and his Cavalry

chapter XIII|19 pages

The Duke of Wellington as Prime Minister