Death to the French
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Death to the French is a 1932 novel of the Peninsular War during the Napoleonic Wars, written by C. S. Forester, the author of the Horatio Hornblower novels. It was also published in the United States
First edition
The Rifle Brigade was a rifle regiment of the British Army raised on 17 January 1800 as the Experimental Corps of Riflemen to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers. They were renamed the Rifl
Death to the French
…Hornblower novels. It was also published in the United States under the title Rifleman Dodd. The novel relates the adventures of a British rifleman of the 95th Regiment of Foot who is cut off from his regiment when the Allied army retreats behind the Lines of Torres Vedras. He is forced to survive for several months in territory…
Cap badge of the Rifle Brigade
Coote Manningham (first from left), the co-founder of the regiment
c. 1803 illustration of a regimental rifleman
Illustration of a regimental soldier (right) in 1812