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May 12, 2020 · Adventure – -‘s concept dropped into James Hood’s head, unannounced and without warning, more than four decades ago. Then-young James wanted to both read stories of grande adventure and perhaps a bit more than subliminally, entertained nascent desires to actually write them.
Jan 31, 2016 · George James Guthrie, a formidable surgeon with a fine reputation established during the Peninsular campaigns, went to Waterloo after the battle and performed a successful disarticulation at the hip joint on a French prisoner of war.
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Mar 8, 2015 · George James Guthrie, a formidable Peninsular War surgeon with a fine reputation, went to Waterloo two weeks after the battle and performed a disarticulation at the hip joint (removing the leg at the hip) on a French prisoner-of-war, a certain François de Gay, who survived.
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Individual Black soldiers are known to have taken part in many of the Napoleonic war campaigns, including the Battle of Toulouse, the Peninsular War, Quatre Bra, and the final battle to defeat the French Emperor Napoleon at Waterloo in June 1815.
Jan 20, 2023 · For many years during the Napoleonic Wars, Britain, a naval superpower, had interfered with American ships in the Atlantic and even gone as far as forcing American seamen to join the Royal Navy. The U.S. was not having any of it, and so, on June 18, 1812, U.S. President James Madison, declared war on Britain.
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.
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On 14 February at 8-30am, the two fleets met. The British fleet of 15 vessels formed up in line of battle and sailed towards the Spanish fleet which, because of the winds, had become split into two groups, one of 19 and the other of 6 vessels – nearly double the number of the opposition.
