Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts Roberts - The rise of Wellington : with portraits and plans

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Text originally published in 1902 under the same title.

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THE RISE OF WELLINGTON

BY

GENERAL LORD ROBERTS, V.C.

WITH PORTRAITS AND PLANS

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER

WHEN the proposal for a series of republications in book form of some of the more important articles and short stories appearing in the pages of the Pall Mall Magazine was first made to us by Mr. R. B. Marston, we accepted it without hesitation, perceiving at once that an admirable medium would thus be provided by which much valuable literary matter might be made known to an even wider circle of the public than the readers of the periodical of which we have the conduct. Field-Marshal Viscount Wolseleys graphic and analytical papers on the Decline and Fall of Napoleon, which constitute the first volume of the PALL MALL MAGAZINE LIBRARY, achieved, as we are able to say from personal knowledge, a very remarkable success not only in England and America, but on the Continent; especially in Paris, where they were translated and published in book form. Much the same may be said with regard to General Lord Roberts valuable and instructive articles on the Rise of Wellington, which found especial favour with military readers in all branches of the Service, and we have reason to think that the collection of these into a single and handy volume will meet with the general approval of military men, and might form a valuable text-book for military students. The articles commenced by Viscount Wolseley and continued by Lord Roberts are now being followed in the pages of the Pall Mall Magazine by Lieut.-General Sir Evelyn Woods papers on Cavalry in the Waterloo Campaign, and we hope from time to time to be able to secure other able military writers as contributors to deal with subjects having an equal historical interest. We conclude by saying that the Publishers have our hearty sympathy and will have our lively co-operation in the publication of the PALL MALL MAGAZINE LIBRARY, and so far as lies in our power we shall endeavour to assist them in making each successive volume such as to entitle it to a foremost place in the literature of the day.

FREDERICK HAMILTON. DOUGLAS STRAIGHT.

Editors Pall Mall Magazine.

18, CHARING CROSS ROAD.

March, 1895.

GENERAL SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY, K.P.

TIPPOO SULTAN

PLAN OF THE ATTACK UPON THE NORTH WEST ANGLE OF SERINGAPATAM

LORD HARRIS

GENERAL LAKE

PLAN OF THE BATTLE OF ASSAYE

BATTLE OF ASSAYE

MAJOR-GENERAL BAIRD

SIR HEW DALRYMPLE

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL THE HON. JOHN HOPE

COLONEL GEORGE MURRAY

SIR JOHN MOORE

BATTLE OF TALAVERA

MAJOR-GENERAL BERESFORD

LORD CASTLEREAGH

PLAN OF MASSENAS RETREAT. COMBAT OF SABUGAL, 1811

THE STORMING OF BADAJOZ

GENERAL LORD HILL, G.C.B.

PLAN OF THE PASSAGE OF THE NIVE. BATTLE OF ST. PIERRE

MAP OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

WELLINGTON