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Blood, Guts and Gore: Assistant Surgeon John Gordon Smith at Waterloo

Autor John Gordon Smith Editat de Gareth Glover
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 oct 2022
John Gordon Smith wrote one of the most vivid, honest and readable personal accounts of the Battle of Waterloo and the ensuing campaign, where he served as a surgeon in the 12th Light Dragoons, but his classic narrative was only published in a limited edition in the 1830s and since then it has been virtually unknown.
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ISBN-13: 9781399097215
ISBN-10: 1399097210
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 17 colour
Dimensiuni: 163 x 240 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Pen & Sword Books

Notă biografică

John Gordon Smith qualified as a doctor in Edinburgh in 1810 and began his army medical career as a hospital mate on 25 April 1811. He became an assistant surgeon to the 11th Light Dragoons in March 1813 and transferred to the 12th Light Dragoons in October of the same year serving in the Peninsular War. In 1815, with the 12th Light Dragoons, he served in Belgium during the Waterloo campaign and the occupation of France that followed. In 1818 he was placed on half pay and he never returned to military service. He published the two volume The English Army at Waterloo and in France in 1830 and died in London in September 1833.