I found myself more interested in Arthur Wesley’s sister, Anne she was a fascinating person. I have read everything I could find about both these men and the Napoleonic War. I have been fascinated by Napoleon since I was a child. Highly recommended, for this is a terrific start of this great 4 part series, and that's why I like to call this episode: "A Brilliant Young Bloods"! What is to follow is an amazing start that will set the scene of two formidable strategists and leaders of men, and what will further happen in their lives and most of all their rise to power within the military world, and all this told by the author in a most captivating fashion. While growing up they will become accustomed to warfare, Wellesley, later better known as Wellington, will get blooded in India, Ireland and Flanders, while Napoleon will have to deal with the French Revolution and the war against Prussia, Britain and Holland.īoth has their own amoureus adventures with Wellington in pursuit of Kitty Pakenham, and napoleon for his future bride, Josephine. This book starts off around the year AD 1769, and we encounter the rise from both Arthur Wellesley and Napoleon Bonaparte from young men to military leaders of renown. Read this book in 2006, and its the first volume of the "Wellington & Napoleon" quartet of books.
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