Featured battle : Tolentino

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 03 May 1815

The Austrian superior discipline, determination and generalship gave them a victory over the Neapolitan force which was more than three times their number. As Murat, King of Naples, retreated eastwards the Neapolitans began to drift away from the colours and go home.

Waterloo Archive Volume III: British Sources

Gareth Glover [Ed]
Just like the first two volumes another fascinating read. There are many many books which give one the strategy, and an over view of the action in the battle, some excellent in their way. But these volumes tell us, or more correctly the men themselves tell us, about real lives of real individuals who were involved in that momentous event. If you want to know who fought Quatre-Bras and Waterloo then these volumes tell you of some of the men. We can guess that most of the others, whose voices are not recorded, had similar varied lives. Also in the three British sourced volumes there are eight superb illustrations reproduced from William Mudford's history of Waterloo published in 1817.
If you want to know the men read these books.
Frontline Books, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2011