Battle for Paris 1815 : untold story of the fighting after Waterloo
Dawson, Paul L.2019
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On the morning of the 3rd of July 1815, the French General Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans, at the head of a brigade of dragoons, fired the last shots in the defence of Paris until the Franco-Prussian War 65 years later. Why did he do so? Traditional accounts of 1815 end with Waterloo, when Napoleon Bonaparte fought and lost his last battle. So why was Exelmans still fighting for Paris? For the first time ever, using the wealth of archive material held in the French Army archives in Paris, along with eyewitness testimonies from those who were there, Paul Dawson brings alive the bitter and desperate fighting in defence of the French capital.
Main title:
Battle for Paris 1815 : untold story of the fighting after Waterloo / Paul L. Dawson.
Author:
Dawson, Paul L., author
Imprint:
Barnsley, S. Yorkshire : Frontline Books, 2019.
Collation:
x, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781526749277 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
944.36105944.361 DAWS
Language:
English
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BRN:
1909467
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